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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... of Supposed Witchcraft ( 1677 ) 275 29 Notes by John Thelwall in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria ( 1817 ) 293 30 Robert Darnton , “ The Communications Circuit " 302 PREFACE This book was written in response to two challenges.
The Evidence of Marginalia H. J. Jackson. PREFACE This book was written in response to two challenges . The first ... writing of all kinds is designed for communication , the notes that readers wrote in books in a given period might ...
... written in books by readers between 1790 and about 1830. At the core of it is a set of roughly 400 books in the British Library and 200 in other collections , all published during the period and containing notes by unidentified ...
... 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 contributions to human ...
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 |