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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... margins proper . For all their limitations I prefer “ annotator ” and " annotate ” to the antique - sounding " marginator ” and “ marginate , ' however , and have used them throughout to describe the various roles and activities of ...
... margins ( as in law books ) to take the reader's glosses . Course outlines could be bought interleaved with blank pages for lecture notes . Most luxury books , quartos especially , paraded wide margins , not perhaps with the intent of ...
... margins and when Blackwood's printed Coleridge's " marginalia ” on Sir Thomas Browne in 1819.68 ) As Mary Russell Mit- ford observed , it was “ an age fertile in abridgments and selections " ( 2 : 230 ) . A Continental writer , C. A. G. ...
... margins to the pristine treasure of the bibliophile.2 Locke spoke out against memory - work and insisted that the point of reading was to improve the mind by exercise of its own powers , not to stuff it with the words of others ...
... margins of the pages and then later to have copied what he wanted to preserve onto the interleaves in ink as a more permanent record . His notes on Harwood Busick's lectures on natural history and comparative anatomy in 1812 indicate ...
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 |