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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... letters, diaries, memoirs, and journalism of the period, so that there too Romantic readers can have their own say, individually and collectively. From its empirical core, Romantic Readers expands to take up a number of related issues ...
... letter - founding machine , which could cast up to 20,000 letters in a day as opposed to the maximum of 7,000 cast by hand , was not invented till 1822 , and uniform cloth publishers ' bindings were like- wise a phenomenon of the 1820s ...
... ( Letters , 121 ) . But these new powers inevitably brought new burdens for authors as well : since there were no literary agents , they had to negotiate and take business decisions on their own behalf . Judging by their correspon- dence ...
... [ Letters , 6:45 ] . And yet he invariably recom- mended shared profits as the best available arrangement.30 ) Copyright continued to be a contentious issue , however , with authors vigorously campaigning for a longer term . In 1814 it ...
... letter.52 ) As a rough - and - ready way of gauging the relative value of books in the period , it is instructive to look at newspaper advertisements for new books alongside advertisements for other commodities and enter- tainments . It ...
Contents
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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 |