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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... Common and Statute Law of England ( 1784 ) 103 16 An opening of Facts and Observations relating to the Temple Church , and the Monuments contained in it ( 1811 ) , annotated by Francis Hargrave 114-15 17 Notes by John Prinsep in a copy ...
... common codes of reading of that time as well as about the experi- ence of the individual reader ( Marginalia , 252–58 ) . To test Darnton's hypothesis and verify or correct my own observations , I chose Britain in the Romantic period ...
... common - sense ” use is included because it represents a part of the continuum of the practice of readers writing in books — it's part of the whole picture— and because there are some surprises in the midst of dull routine . The second ...
... common economic calculations, with the availability of reading matter, and with customs and fashions related to reading. The goal is to sketch out a complex but familiar system in which readers played an active role and neither were ...
... common experience and their collec- tive power . ary Close on the heels of the newspapers and beneficiaries of the same distribution network were the periodical reviews , with smaller circula- tion figures but a longer shelf - life ...
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 |