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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... practice , something I had skated over previously . To them I added about 500 with notes by named but minor figures , many of them antiquarians , collectors , scholars , and editors who had been influential in their time and were ...
... practice of writing in books have tended to blind us to the value that marginalia once had and to unfit us for interpreting documents of this order. A study of such documents, historically focused, ought to go some way toward correcting ...
... practice of readers writing in books — it's part of the whole picture— and because there are some surprises in the midst of dull routine . The second chapter shows books being treated as companions , whether as substitutes for or as ...
... practice thus fell back on the provisions of the Act of 1710 , which gave the author of a new work copyright for fourteen years , renewable once . A severe blow to the London cartels , this decision had two im- mediate and long ...
... work in manuscript — a practice of obvious relevance to the writers of marginalia . The advent of print did not mean the end of handwritten texts , and private libraries continued to contain manuscript introduction 21.
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 |