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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... find that the two studies , relying on different kinds of docu- mentary evidence , were broadly compatible and complementary in their results . Where St. Clair's version of the history of publishing and reception varies from other ...
... 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 14 millions , with the greatest national rate of ...
... find a Consumption there will ever be poor ignorant authors to write them and low mercenary booksellers to pub- lish them . " Though he made an exception for Hannah More's Cheap Repository Tracts , as a rule he equated cheap with ...
... find other ways of making their reprint editions more desirable than anyone else's . So when a consortium of London publishers commissioned lives of the best English poets of the past century from Samuel Johnson for the series that came ...
... find new matter every month , were perhaps the most desperate and least scrupulous of all . ( Readers ' notes incidentally achieved some exposure this way , as when the European Magazine of May 1790 described Bishop Warbur- ton's ...
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 |