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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... Supposed Witchcraft ( 1677 ) 275 29 Notes by John Thelwall in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria ( 1817 ) 293 30 Robert Darnton , “ The Communications Circuit " 302 PREFACE This book was written in response to two challenges.
... Thelwall, and John Keats. These gifted writers might be expected to prove themselves exceptional readers and to raise the standard in whatever they wrote, even if only marginalia, but the previous groups of books provide a context for ...
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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 |