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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... circulating libraries ; if no circulating libraries , no novels , no contract authors , no Colburn and Bentleys . It is now in literature as in other trades ; great consumption is followed by great supply ” ( n.s. 13 : 462 ) . From the ...
... circulating libraries . They were the ones who produced the poems of Byron and Scott and the Waverley novels . Right through the war years they advertised de luxe features such as copperplate engravings and expensive paper , promoting ...
... library sales , which were advertised in the newspapers ; through book clubs , which distributed books among their members , sometimes by drawing lots , when the group was finished with them ; and through the circulating libraries ...
... Circulating libraries , subscription libraries , and literary institutions were larger and more permanent establishments with physical premises where readers might meet ; all but the humblest had space set aside for reading . Their ...
... Circulating Library , " which was to me then what the Bodleian would be now . " A copy on the counter turned out to ... libraries . Or rather it describes a hierarchy of libraries - growing need being met by ever larger resources — from ...
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 |