Invisible Forms

A collection of essays about unacknowledged genres and curiosities of literature. “This exuberant book is a cornucopia for bookworms.” — The Sunday Times (UK) Dedications, titles, epigraphs, footnotes, prefaces, afterwords, indexes, these and other “invisible” literary necessities form the skeletons of many a book, yet these unacknowledged and unexamined forms abound in wisdom, curiosities, or eccentricities. With both erudition and wit, Kevin Jackson draws on examples from every part of literat