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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... Bibliomania ( 1811 ) with an engraved portrait of the author ( 1821 ) by Mary Turner , wife of Dawson Turner 215 25 A page from The R --- l Brood , 15th edition ( 1814 ) , by “ Peter Pindar , Jun . , " with notes by an unidentified ...
... knew it fairly well but more importantly because at that time the press was ex- traordinarily busy , “ bibliomania ” took off in Britain , extended literacy χι became a matter of public concern , and perhaps not Preface.
... Bibliomania by more than a decade. The happy ending of Lemoine's story is that he was able to go back to his book- stand in 1807 and kept it the rest of his life. A more commanding figure than Lemoine, but at least as versatile, is John ...
... Biblio- mania ( 1809 ) , Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers ( 1809 ) , Leigh Hunt's Feast of the Poets ( 1810 ) , and Ireland's Scribbleomania ( 1815 ) . “ We read to say that we have read . . . . These are your readers against ...
... Bibliomania , a brief phase of intense competition for certifiably rare books and manuscripts , was a craze among wealthy collectors , but it too filtered down : when Dibdin , who had led and fed the craze , published Reminiscences of a ...
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 |