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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... particular Directions for each . Of this elegant and highly inftructive Work , Twenty Numbers may now be had , containing as above . For the rapid Sale of this Work , amounting to a Thoufand Co- , pies in the fhort Space of Twenty ...
... particular loca- tions and from owners seeking to sell lock , stock , and barrel . A country shop , " the business of a Stationer , Bookseller , and Circulating Library , eligibly situated in a genteel and populous Village , 3 miles ...
... particular publications to their notice . But at a certain point we have to invoke the wild card of fashion which — its restless dependence on novelty coinciding with a failing economy— may be enough to account for the end of the boom ...
... particular . When you have fin- ished the treatise with all your observations upon it , recollect and de- termine what real improvements you have made by reading that author . ( 79-80 ) Watts's strenuous program of self - discipline ...
... particular minerals ; perhaps the student switched to another method of note - taking in be- tween , or perhaps he was present at only two or three lectures . These notes appear to be a neutral record of what was said in the lecture ...
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 |