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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... 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 against) the practice of writing in books have tended to blind ...
... say a thing does not make it so ; contemporary witnesses could be echoing one another , indulging in wishful thinking , or just reiterating the gossip and alarms of the day . And solid statistical data for pre - Victorian Britain are ...
... say simply , " Sold by all booksellers . ” Advertisers conventionally but accurately used the formula “ printed for X and sold by all other book- sellers , stationers , and news - carriers , in town or country ” or “ Sold by Booksellers ...
... says , “ seems to have weathered the 1826 storm quite serenely ” ( 161 ) . British publishing appears to have been one of those “ exceptional groups , " as Rule calls them , that profited from the state of war ( 185 ) . The hunger for ...
... say , the floodgates — to other publishers , especially for works now officially out of copyright . Under the new dispensation , authors gained important powers . They could , and in many cases still did , choose to sell their work ...
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 |