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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... because I already knew it fairly well but more importantly because at that time the press was ex- traordinarily busy , “ bibliomania ” took off in Britain , extended literacy χι became a matter of public concern , and perhaps not Preface.
... took a more positive position , observing that “ Every man , nay , almost every woman , now reads , thinks , projects , and accom- plishes , ” with the result that “ the poorest peasant is now enabled to trace the language of truth , in ...
... took a more cheerful view of the spectacle of “ a whole nation employing nearly all its leisure hours from the highest to the lowest ranks in reading — we have been truly called a READING PUBLIC ” ( 1 : iv ) . In a private letter also ...
... took up the idea , taxes together with the steep cost of raw materials during the war years kept paper prices high until the mid - 1820s , and they did not really tumble until after the successful production of wood - pulp paper in the ...
... took some publishers with it , notably Constable ( and with him , Scott ) , but after a careful study of the available figures , Simon Eliot concludes that the crisis of 1826 “ can be seen as no more than a little local difficulty , a ...
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 |