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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... idea of a new mass market in popula- tion statistics and literacy rates . Between 1780 and 1830 the population of Great Britain had doubled , from approximately 7 to 14 millions , with the greatest national rate of increase between 1811 ...
... idea , taxes together with the steep cost of raw materials during the war years kept paper prices high until the mid - 1820s , and they did not really tumble until after the successful production of wood - pulp paper in the 1840s . The ...
... ideas about poor relief in Bavaria ) and offered his publisher Joseph Cottle a pamphlet adapting that scheme as an urban project for Bristol . With a few changes to the text , he pointed out , the same plan could be put to Birmingham ...
... ideas , dating from 1769 , was to print sermons in a large font that looked like handwriting , to save clergymen the trouble of writing their own : his circulars promised discretion and offered the sermons either individually or in ...
... ideas fearlessly and they are extremely clever , true , and quite original — too true indeed to be acceptable to parsons . وو A step up from the commercial circulating libraries were what are sometimes called " general " subscription ...
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 |