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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... John Prinsep in a copy of Thomas Law's An Answer to Mr. Prinseps's Observations on the Mocurrery System ( 1794 ) 138 18 Notes by John Lidwill in Harvest : General Weeding of the Earth ( 1799 ) 144-45 19 " The Patriotic Dinner " : A ...
... John Mitford . The great advantage of this group , besides contributing to the profile of normal use , was that it brought in older books and books in other languages , most of the contemporary titles belonging to the first group being ...
... John Thelwall, and John Keats. These gifted writers might be expected to prove themselves exceptional readers and to raise the standard in whatever they wrote, even if only marginalia, but the previous groups of books provide a context ...
... John Baker kindly read and commented on the section that deals with Francis Hargrave . In every library visited on behalf of this project the staff assisted me in professional and super - professional ways , but I must single out a few ...
... John goes to town with a load of hay , he is charged to be sure not to forget to bring home ' Peregrine Pickle's adventures ; ' and when Dolly is sent to the market to sell her eggs she is commissioned to purchase ' The History of ...
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 |