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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... ( especially with the United States ) and general prosperity came to an end in 1792 , to be followed by a decade of bad harvests , government overspending , and labor unrest . Wages rose during the war years , when able - bodied men were ...
... especially for works now officially out of copyright . Under the new dispensation , authors gained important powers . They could , and in many cases still did , choose to sell their work outright to the publisher , but the copyright ...
... especially , paraded wide margins , not perhaps with the intent of encouraging the annotator , but with that effect . Though not normally thought of as books at all , some printed items came in the shape of books with very little ...
... especially reading and drawing , reminding them that books can be had for pennies at a stall and that “ An author is a silent tutor ; one of the cheapest , most important , convenient , and efficient , in the grand work of instruc- tion ...
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Contents
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1 Mundane Marginalia | 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 |