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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... collections , all published during the period and containing notes by unidentified contemporary readers . These books I consider especially valuable precisely because they were not acquired by the libraries they are now in on account of ...
... collect textual variants while another might take issue with the argument , assess the quality of the writing , or compare it with contemporary English literature . The contents of all three chapters are mustered in a fourth to address ...
... collection of new poetry , the Annual Anthology , in the Monthly Review of April 1800 , also thought that the judgment of the marketplace had been affected for the worse : " the art of printing has rendered the beauties of poetry ...
... collections . The Library of the British Museum was not yet forty years old in 1790 , and although it had been established on the solid footing of the Sloane , Harleian , and Cottonian collections and 38 introduction.
... collection through purchases and bequests . Institutional libraries had specialized collections intended for members of the institution . Even the largest and most splendid of the university libraries , the Bodleian Library in Oxford ...
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 |