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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... Remarks ... and Manners, written by Himself. Replete with Humour, Useful Informa- tion and Entertaining Anecdote (1806) is unconventional in content and form—rambling, maddening, full of stale jokes. Trusler presents his as ''a life of ...
... remarks " about the faults and beauties observed along the way ( 74 , 78 , 80 , 81-82 ) . Other things also of the like nature may be usefully practised with regard to the authors which you read , viz . If the method of a book be ...
... remarks about instinct ( “ Muscovy duck when he leaves the nest pulls off his feathers to keep the young warm " ) , but once again the notes cover only a small part of the whole , being confined to the lecture " Of Animals in General ...
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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 |