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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... observes you must read and have something to say about it " or be thought nothing of . " Though the right books and opinions varied from one group to another , a given circle might be expected to show consis- tency and to some extent to ...
... observes , first , that the process of learning was probably more rapid because they were thus building on oral practice , and , second , that " the substance of oral and print culture were , from the earliest years of an individual's ...
... observes , " Passages of surpassing beauty Quote - Stanzas 1—2—3 11— 12-13-14-15-16-17 " ( [ 105 ] ) . MacDermott continued throughout his life to subject his books to the same critical treatment . A copy of Johnson's Poetical Works ...
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Contents
1 | |
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 |