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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... original work by " poets of every denomina- tion and character , " some of whom published under their own names , some anonymously or under pseudonyms . ( It appears to have survived mainly by sales to its contributors and their friends ...
... original compositions . His great successes , to judge by numbers of editions , were the Chesterfield , Hogarth Moralized ( text to accompany a set of Hogarth's engravings , published with the cooperation of Hogarth's widow ) , The Way ...
... original argument than generally accompanied this point of view - was the fact that the poor could buy only cheap books , and cheap books diminished the profits and prestige of the respectable au- thor : " whilst cheap books find a ...
... notorious Diversions of Purley , where suppressed passages in the text are filled in on the au- thority of Kemble's friend Boaden's copy , itself corrected from Tooke's original manuscript . ) So Coleridge's panic , when he introduction 39.
The Evidence of Marginalia H. J. Jackson. original manuscript . ) So Coleridge's panic , when he found he had acquired the reputation of being a bad person to lend books to , is understandable . He called on his acquaintances to ...
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 |