Beschreibung:
In Book Traces, Andrew M. Stauffer reads nineteenth-century poetry through the clues and objects earlier readers left behind in their books and defends the value of the physical, circulating collections of nineteenth-century volumes in academic libraries.
IntroductionChapter 1. Images in Lava: Felicia Hemans, Sentiment, and AnnotationChapter 2. Gardens of Verse: Botanical Souvenirs and Lyric ReadingChapter 3. Time Machines: Poetry, Memory, and the Date-Marked BookChapter 4. Velveteen Rabbits: Sentiment and the Transfiguration of BooksChapter 5. Postcard from the Volcano: On the Future of Library Print CollectionsEnvoiNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments