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The Page Filler The Page Filler
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Sources for Miscellaneity Sources for Miscellaneity
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What Do the Margins Have to Say? What Do the Margins Have to Say?
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The Temporality of Page Design The Temporality of Page Design
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Designed for Attention Designed for Attention
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Fluid Forms, Fluid Genres Fluid Forms, Fluid Genres
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1 Page Fillers and Genre: How Do We Know What We’re Reading?
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Published:November 2024
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Abstract
Page fillers are small bits of text that appear from the 1840s onwards in many popular magazines. From one angle, the page filler is a blemish—a sign that the more prestigious content fell short of exact word count. But from another angle its value is precisely its randomization and its typographical distinction from the surrounding content. Using popular periodicals like Reynolds’s Miscellany, the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, and Lloyd’s Entertaining Journal, this chapter lays the groundwork for the book’s preoccupation with embodied text—text that is generated and responds to the space it fills. Page fillers prompt a discussion of how we might be able to determine that something was added last or adjusted to its space. Fillers have a direct relationship between form and content, which means that they are records of a set of editorial decisions, as well as of a process of labour in time.
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