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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... lines , and to the existence of the dailies readers owed many direct and indirect benefits : the fostering of the habit of reading itself ; notice of new publications ; above all , an enviable dis- tribution network . Altick points out ...
... lines of the text ( Greek and Latin classics , for example ) or with wide margins ( as in law books ) to take the reader's glosses . Course outlines could be bought interleaved with blank pages for lecture notes . Most luxury books ...
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Contents
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1 Mundane Marginalia | 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 |