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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... first printed page , +1 the first blank page after the last printed one . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book would not have been written without a lot of outside help . I am most grateful to the Killam Foundation of the Canada Council for the ...
... first , that Johnson was surprised by this result , and , second , that it is not clear that the household staff could not have passed his test by having heard it read rather than by having read it themselves ) . ' If the second part of ...
... first constructed in 1800 did not significantly increase the rate of production , which awaited the application of steam - power — the pio- neering example being that of The Times in 1814 , with improvements in 1828.11 The paper ...
... first at Berwick - upon - Tweed , where I reprinted one of my books , and called the town ; I got as many books before - hand , as carried me to Newcastle- upon - Tyne ; there again I reprinted , called the town , and got books to bring ...
... publisher . He thought copyrights were more trouble than they were worth : " if a Writer cannot sell his first manuscript as soon as he has completed it , he had better burn it & employ himself any other way than attempt 16 introduction.
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 |