Footnotes in Reade’s Hard Cash (Sierra’s booknotes)

While reading Hard Cash, I was struck by how Reade used “paratext” as a space to extend the narrative. His footnotes range from slightly snide narrative asides to detailed references to historical events, terminology, or further reference texts.

Below I’ve included snapshots of Reade’s 25 footnotes, my notes, and the  superscripted passages in Jane Hardie’s diary.

Cover

p 5

p. 16

p. 46

p. 64

p. 73

p.84

p. 92

p. 99

p. 120

p. 149

p. 163

p. 167

p. 174

p. 175

p. 175

p. 177

p. 182

p. 188

p. 190

Superscript p. 197

Superscript p. 198

p. 257

p. 288

p 292-293

p. 352