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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... least as much as by problems of evidence . What constitutes literacy , and what proofs are sufficient and available ? Does it mean the ability to sign one's name in a marriage register ? But boys and girls in church schools and charity ...
... least £ 10,000 as the publisher of Cowper ( 1 : 381 ) . The early nineteenth century produced ever more spectacular examples both of triumph and of failure . Lackington , for instance , had started out as a shoemaker with a sideline in ...
... least the work would get a hearing . Coleridge tried with limited success to run his own periodicals , The Watchman in 1796 and The Friend in 1809–10 . The numbers of new journals every year show that he was one of many . Another option ...
... least as versatile, is John Trusler (1735–1820), who did so well as a rogue publisher that he was able like Lackington to buy an estate and publish a volume of his autobiography. His Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Dr. Trusler, with his ...
... least a guinea a year for membership and to purchase one copy of every book published by the society . The society would buy paper direct from the mill , hire printers or run its own press , determine by committee the works suitable for ...
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 |