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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... period might reveal quite a lot about the common codes of reading of that time as well as about the experience of the individual reader (Marginalia, 252–58). To test Darnton's hypothesis and verify or correct my own observations, I ...
... period presents, through marginalia, a particularly rich record of readers' engagement with their books. Romantic Readers is therefore in the first place an empirical study, an account of manuscript notes written in books by readers ...
... period, so that there too Romantic readers can have their own say, individually and collectively. From its empirical core, Romantic Readers expands to take up a number of related issues. Our own assumptions about (not to say prejudices ...
... period in Britain; to literary scholars interested in reception and reader response; to historians of the book; and to owners or custodians of annotated books who might want help in figuring out what's going on in them. Following a ...
... Period was published by Cambridge University Press in 2004 while Romantic Readers was in the press. Though I could have enriched this book, particularly in the Introduction, with scores of references to it, I was pleased to find that ...
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 |