Romantic Readers: The Evidence of MarginaliaWhen readers jot down notes in their books, they reveal something of themselves—what they believe, what amuses or annoys them, what they have read before. But a close examination of marginalia also discloses diverse and fascinating details about the time in which they are written. This book explores reading practices in the Romantic Age through an analysis of some 2,000 books annotated by British readers between 1790 and 1830. |
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... first page of T. F. Dibdin's Bibliomania (1811) with an engraved portrait of the author (1821) by Mary Turner, wife of Dawson Turner 215 25 A page from The R---l Brood, 15th edition (1814), by ''Peter Pindar, Jun.,'' with notes by an ...
... first came from Robert Darnton, pondering the di≈culties presented by the history of reading. Though some had argued that it was futile to attempt to reconstruct reading experiences from the past, Darnton thought there might be a way ...
... first place an empirical study, an account of manuscript notes written in books by readers between 1790 and about 1830. At the core of it is a set of roughly 400 books in the British Library and 200 in other collections, all published ...
... first as a by-product of the survey, now seems to me of interest in its own right as a display of the richness and variety of the book world at the time. Since most of the materials of this study—the marginalia themselves—existed only ...
... first kind is found in books connected with the professional work of educators, lawyers, and publishers; in the first chapter, therefore, while stopping short of actual professional paperwork, I confront the sort of workaday routine use ...
Contents
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60 | |
2 Socializing with Books | 121 |
3 Custodians to Posterity | 198 |
4 The Reading Mind | 249 |
Conclusion | 299 |
Notes | 307 |
Bibliography of Books with Manuscript Notes | 325 |
Bibliography of Secondary Sources | 340 |
Index | 353 |