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The material Shelley: who gets the finger in Queen Mab?(Percy Bysshe Shelley)
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January 1, 2002|
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I want to document a few instances in which Shelley appears to intervene directly and minutely in the typesetting and distribution of his work. His career as a hands-on author had much to do with legal restrictions on the printing of seditious material, and new evidence suggests that he may even have set type for some of his most radical early work. However, I will ultimately concentrate on one of the most baffling material signs in any of his printed works: the eight indicator hands placed in the right-hand margins of the text in several of the long notes Shelley wrote to ...
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