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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... especially valuable precisely because they were not acquired by the libraries they are now in on account of the notes ; they just came with them . ( The books were traced through online library catalogues and , in the case of the ...
... especially the subtle inward differences of attitude or mentality . This work is addressed to Romanticists , or rather to students of the Romantic period in Britain ; to literary scholars interested in reception and reader response ; to ...
... especially to the backdrop of the reading environment , and by giving me sympathizers to talk to , they preserved me from total isola- tion . ( Nicola Hessell , who was completing a dissertation on Coleridge's journalism at the time ...
... especially from earlier years ; and the number of titles would have to be correlated with print runs to demonstrate growth decisively . " We tend to have to rely on figures occasionally reported by publishers , booksellers , or authors ...
... especially advertising and reviewing; and that when the boom was over, a somewhat chastened industry started up a new path, court- ing the mass market that it had previously been inclined to spurn. The eighteenth century as a whole had ...
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 |