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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The Evidence of Marginalia H. J. Jackson. Romantic Readers the evidence of marginalia H. J. Jackson Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund and Yale University Press New Haven and London.
... London ( 1808–10 ) 48 zz The drawing - room of Miss Richardson Currer of Yorkshire , from T. F. Dibdin , Reminiscences ( 1836 ) 50 12 Notes by Philip MacDermott in Voltaire's Henriade ( 1807 ) 74 13 Richard Dreyer's notes and ...
... London expanded by over 40 per cent , while Liver- pool and Manchester each grew by over 40 per cent in one decade 1821 to 1831. The reading public , it is estimated , quintupled in the whole period 1780 to 1830 , from 11⁄2 to 7 ...
... London it was not until the early to mid 1820s that the [ lithographic ] trade began to emerge . " Church's 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 ...
... London , carried advertising for London publishers , and made their networks available for the distribution of printed materials from all over the country . It was a well - established , mutually advan- tageous system.1 The title pages ...
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 |