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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... position , observing that “ Every man , nay , almost every woman , now reads , thinks , projects , and accom- plishes , ” with the result that “ the poorest peasant is now enabled to trace the language of truth , in pages calculated by ...
... position for different reasons . He kept his copyrights only because he could not get what he considered a fair price from another publisher . He thought copyrights were more trouble than they were worth : " if a Writer cannot sell his ...
... position of writers diminished that of publishers and obliged them to try new devices to keep ahead of their competitors . By 1790 it was already clear that even with little capital investment fortunes could be made through author ...
... position , in these cases , just as the father in the family generally got to be the reader . On the other hand , women like Mitford's maid , a “ hemmer of flounces , " were read to because their hands and eyes were occupied with work ...
... position rather than another . When he consulted his books again he would find the original reasoning as well as the conclusion . Alongside his professional reading , MacDermott enjoyed literary recreations and annotated copies of Latin ...
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 |