Romantic Readers: The Evidence of Marginalia

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Yale University Press, Oct 1, 2008 - Literary Criticism - 384 pages
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When 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.
This period experienced a great increase in readership and a boom in publishing. H. J. Jackson shows how readers used their books for work, for socializing, and for leaving messages to posterity. She draws on the annotations of Blake, Coleridge, Keats, and other celebrities as well as those of little known and unknown writers to discover how people were reading and what this can tell us about literature, social history, and the history of the book.

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... Bacon's Essays (1798) 162–63 23 Notes and underlining by Keats in Milton's Paradise Lost (1807) 184–85 24 The decorative first page of T. F. Dibdin's Bibliomania (1811) with an engraved portrait of the author (1821) by Mary Turner, ...
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The first came from Robert Darnton, pondering the di≈culties presented by the history of reading. Though some had argued that it was futile to attempt to reconstruct reading experiences from the past, Darnton thought there might be a ...
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Romantic Readers is therefore in the first place an empirical study, an account of manuscript notes 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 ...
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The resulting gallery of characters and publications (for the annotated books themselves are not all well known), which I thought of at first as a by-product of the survey, now seems to me of interest in its own right as a display of ...
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The first kind is found in books connected with the professional work of educators, lawyers, and publishers; in the first chapter, therefore, while stopping short of actual professional paperwork, I confront the sort of workaday routine ...

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In this follow-up to her magisterial Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books , Jackson (English, Univ. of Toronto) focuses on annotations that were made in books during the Romantic Age--that exciting ... Read full review

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Contents

The Reading Environment
1
1 Mundane Marginalia
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
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About the author (2008)

H. J. Jackson is a professor, Department of English, University of Toronto. She has published extensively on Romantic literature, and her book Marginalia was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in literarty criticism.

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TitleRomantic Readers: The Evidence of Marginalia
AuthorH. J. Jackson
Editionillustrated, annotated
PublisherYale University Press, 2008
ISBN0300129491, 9780300129496
Length384 pages
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