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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... John Rickman complained in 1812 that “ Every one who reads at all reads a Sunday newspaper , not the Bible " ( Wil- liams , 160 ) . Robert Southey in 1822 coolly described to a correspondent a dynamic of social unrest and market forces ...
... John Sutherland also demonstrates that the statistics do not bear out the publishers ' sense of apocalypse : " the British book trade as a whole , " he says , “ seems to have weathered the 1826 storm quite serenely ” ( 161 ) . British ...
... John Clare earned twenty guineas a sheet writing for the Forget - Me - Not ( Letters , 121 ) . But these new powers inevitably brought new burdens for authors as well : since there were no literary agents , they had to negotiate and ...
... John Nichols's father was a baker , Joseph Johnson's a farmer ; William Chambers in Scotland earned only four shillings a week as a bookseller's apprentice in 1814 ; but all of them achieved wealth and respectability through publishing ...
... John Soulby of Ulverston in Lancashire, about 1807, advertised as ''printer, book-binder, book-seller, and stationer''; he carried patent medicines, supplied periodical publications, and kept a circulating li- brary. His stationer's ...
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 |