Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Images in Lava: Felicia Hemans, Sentiment, and Annotation

Chapter 2. Gardens of Verse: Botanical Souvenirs and Lyric Reading

Chapter 3. Time Machines: Poetry, Memory, and the Date-Marked Book

Chapter 4. Velveteen Rabbits: Sentiment and the Transfiguration of Books

Chapter 5. Postcard from the Volcano: On the Future of Library Print Collections

Envoi

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Plates