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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... 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 of Thomas Law's An Answer to Mr. Prinseps's Observations on the ...
... fact they may be quite ordinary ) , and I hoped to be able to describe ordinary use . The first 600 books thus helped to establish conventional practice , something I had skated over previously . To them I added about 500 with notes by ...
... fact that 400 of the books were Coleridge's, but it still contains a healthy number of exam- ples of work by the likes of Horace Walpole, Hester Piozzi, William Blake, Leigh Hunt, John Thelwall, and John Keats. These gifted writers ...
... fact — “ all ranks and degrees now read " was reason for rejoicing or for regret . In 1793 Horace Walpole deplored the " herd of idle readers ” —here there is no explicit social distinction - generated by the periodicals , which , as ...
... fact that many people believe and say a thing does not make it so ; contemporary witnesses could be echoing one another , indulging in wishful thinking , or just reiterating the gossip and alarms of the day . And solid statistical data ...
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 |