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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The Evidence of Marginalia H. J. Jackson. Romantic Readers the evidence of marginalia H. J. Jackson Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund and Yale University Press New Haven and London.
The Evidence of Marginalia H. J. Jackson. Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund and the Louis Stern Memorial Fund. Copyright ∫ 2005 by H. J. Jackson. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or ...
... published during the period and containing notes by unidentified contemporary readers . These books I consider especially valuable precisely because they were not acquired by the libraries they are now in on account of the notes ; they ...
... Secondary Sources , which includes published marginalia . In the transcription of marginalia spelling , punctuation , and capitalization are faithfully recorded but cancellations are silently omitted . Underlin- ing preface χν.
... published version that employs this convention . In numbering flyleaves I count back from the first printed page and forward from the last , so -3 means the third blank page before the first printed page , +1 the first blank page after ...
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 |