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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... Society ; and Maggie Powell at the Lewis Walpole Library in Farming- ton , Connecticut . And for cheerful , expert support in the final stages , my thanks to Larisa Heimert , Phillip King , and Kay Scheuer of Yale University Press ...
... societies had to carry several . Their numbers - both the reading groups and the periodicals — grew rapidly and fed the burgeoning trade . Jon Klancher maintains that the Monthly and Critical between them “ stimulated a fourfold ...
... society . The society would buy paper direct from the mill , hire printers or run its own press , determine by committee the works suitable for publication , and run an impartial periodical review . Authors would keep their copyright ...
... Society and the opposition of the regular publishers killed it . Nevertheless the Literary Society still existed , at least in name , in 1790. John Trusler ran it single - handed . It published as The Literary Press , out of addresses ...
... societies . The Stockbrokers ' ladies took off the quarto travels , and the hot- pressed poetry . They were the patronesses of your patent ink , and your wire wove paper . That is all passed " ( 214 ) . But Trusler's articulation of ...
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 |