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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... chapters examine marginalia of various kinds from a grassroots level . The first kind is found in books connected with the professional work of educators , lawyers , and publishers ; in the first chapter , therefore , while stopping ...
... chapter describes the multifaceted publishing system of the time, both its stable elements and its occasional convulsions and innovations, from the reader's point of view, dealing with basic facts about the book trade, with common ...
... chapters ; tinkered with it to the end of his life ; but never published it . The unfinished manuscript , which breaks off in mid- sentence , is in the Lewis Walpole Library associated with Yale Univer- sity . It has a lot to say about ...
... more equivocal than it was in 1790. The chap- ters that follow document the ordinary and the extraordinary practices of actual Romantic readers . 60 MUNDANE MARGINALIA chapter on one The case for the introduction 59.
The Evidence of Marginalia H. J. Jackson. 60 MUNDANE MARGINALIA chapter on one The case for the centrality of print in British culture in the Romantic period does not rest on the impact of a handful of great works or popular best ...
Contents
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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 |