Romantic Readers: The Evidence of Marginalia

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Yale University Press, Oct 1, 2008 - Literary Criticism - 384 pages
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When 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.
This period experienced a great increase in readership and a boom in publishing. H. J. Jackson shows how readers used their books for work, for socializing, and for leaving messages to posterity. She draws on the annotations of Blake, Coleridge, Keats, and other celebrities as well as those of little known and unknown writers to discover how people were reading and what this can tell us about literature, social history, and the history of the book.

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List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Introduction: The Reading Environment 1 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 ...
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Jacobin pamphlets by mail to every household in Britain, arguing that it was better to change people's minds by print than by bayonets.∂∂ In 1765 Trusler devised a scheme for a Literary Society that would enable authors to publish for ...
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With annotating readers in mind it may be worth pointing out one practical way in which the market accommodated them—by providing space to write in. Here we have usually to do with traditions maintained, not with innovations.
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In an interesting self-help manual addressed to young apprentices, Advice to the Teens (1818), Isaac Taylor discusses management of finances, relations with women, and ways of keeping the mind active. He urges his readers to keep up the ...
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Locke spoke out against memory-work and insisted that the point of reading was to improve the mind by exercise of its own powers, not to stu√ it with the words of others: ''Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; ...

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In this follow-up to her magisterial Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books , Jackson (English, Univ. of Toronto) focuses on annotations that were made in books during the Romantic Age--that exciting ... Read full review

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Contents

The Reading Environment
1
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
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About the author (2008)

H. J. Jackson is a professor, Department of English, University of Toronto. She has published extensively on Romantic literature, and her book Marginalia was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in literarty criticism.

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TitleRomantic Readers: The Evidence of Marginalia
AuthorH. J. Jackson
Editionillustrated, annotated
PublisherYale University Press, 2008
ISBN0300129491, 9780300129496
Length384 pages
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