Novels with Footnotes and Indexes

Related to Christina’s recent post and to Sierra’s post on footnotes in Hard Cash, this bibliography by William Denton of (mostly 20th century) novels with footnotes and novels with indexes; in addition it has a good bibliography of writing on

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

Danielle’s seminar paper on law in Great Expectations

From “The Law as ‘Portable Property’ in Great Expectations: Regardless of who—if anyone—maintains legal authority, the idea of the law haunts the city. Notably, Pip fears that he carries the “Newgate cobwebs” with him on his body (296), even after