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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... social art ( everyone is taught to read ) , and since writing of all kinds is designed for communication , the notes that readers wrote in books in a given period might reveal quite a lot about the common codes of reading of that time ...
... endeavor to set the scene for the investigation of Romantic-period marginalia by describ- ing the commercial and social environment of reading: the availability of books , developments in publishing and marketing , and preface xiii.
... Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada , which provided funding to support research travel and expenses , including graduate assistants . Those assistants — Andrea England , Susan Brown , and Nicola Hessell - contributed ...
... reason for rejoicing or for regret . In 1793 Horace Walpole deplored the " herd of idle readers ” —here there is no explicit social distinction - generated by the periodicals , which , as Introduction: The Reading Environment.
... social groups with little formal education , not only servants and laborers but also the families of shopkeepers and artisans , and most women . While intellectuals like Godwin and Coleridge merely grumbled about the dumbing - down of ...
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 |