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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... tion . ( Nicola Hessell , who was completing a dissertation on Coleridge's journalism at the time , was the source of all the newspaper evidence and many of the illustrations from periodicals , correspondence , and mem- oirs . ) To ...
... tion that it is hardly surprising that even the peaceful occupation of reading is sometimes said to have been revolutionized during those turbulent years . ' At the time , commentators in the press alerted their readers to the ...
... tion of 1790-1830 consisted in an expansion of the market followed by a transformation of the products of the press , specifically , a switch to periodicals and novels . It was frequently noted that households that might once have owned ...
... tion of any kind is another question . Historians find support for the idea of a new mass market in popula- tion statistics and literacy rates . Between 1780 and 1830 the population of Great Britain had doubled , from approximately 7 to ...
... tion in which “ all ranks and degrees now read , " and his representative laborers already read novels . Back in the 1770s , Hester Thrale had won a bet with Johnson by proving that five of the Thrales ' eighteen ser- vants had read Don ...
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 |