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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... thing had to be done to bring a vast , miscellaneous crowd of examples into order , and function offered more common ground than genre or chronology . Under different circumstances , readers wrote different kinds of notes in books of ...
... things will go on ; and , unfortunately , the gentlemen of the people have a strong case against the House of Commons and the borough- mongers , as they call them . I think all wise men should begin to turn their faces reform - wards ...
... 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 hard to ...
... things exceptional cases , and the figures are often unsubstantiated . Lackington is the only authority for the claim that he once had in stock 10,000 copies of Watts's hymns ( Memoirs , 230 ) . Did Paine really sell 200,000 copies of ...
... business or supply end of things rather than from the demand end . It emphasizes the effect of the industrial revolution on publishing and argues that the introduction of important technology in the Romantic introduction J.
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 |