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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... Posterity 198 4 The Reading Mind 249 Conclusion 299 Notes 307 Bibliography of Books with Manuscript Notes Bibliography of Secondary Sources 340 Index 353 325 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS z “ Luxury , or the Comforts Contents.
... Manuscripts " ( 40 ) . " How can we avoid anachronism , the fatal sin of most historical research ? One of the best strategies lies through marginalia . " The second challenge was my own . In a survey of readers ' notes from the last ...
... manuscript notes written in books by readers between 1790 and about 1830. At the core of it is a set of roughly 400 books in the British Library and 200 in other collections , all published during the period and containing notes by ...
... manuscript form, my first goal has been simply to exhibit them, to describe and quote from them in a way that may recreate for my readers the experience of direct contact, and as far as possible to let the voluble readers of the ...
... manuscript additions made by readers to a printed text , whether or not they are in the margins proper . For all ... manuscript form , it will be found in the Bibliography of Books with Manuscript Notes . Otherwise it will appear in the ...
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 |