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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... least in name , in 1790. John Trusler ran it single - handed . It published as The Literary Press , out of addresses in Clerkenwell and then Soho . Its catalogue of 1790 consists largely but not entirely of Trusler's own compositions ...
... least since 1774 , and that Trusler had after all only chosen the same safe route as the majority of publishers and booksellers of his generation . On commercial grounds alone , setting aside class politics , it is easy to see why they ...
... least appealing features of publishing in the period . Anthologies , extracts , anecdotes , anas , beauties , readers , collec- tions , epitomes , miscellanies , and compilations on topics of current interest offered ready - made ...
... novels , plays , history , poetry . " 77 " Traveller " estimates that by 1821 there were at least 1,500 circulating libraries of this sort , " supported on the average by 70 subscribers , and supplying with books 44 introduction.
... least another 100,000 regularly ; and another 100,000 occasionally . " Their collective purchasing power spread its influence throughout the trade . As the reviewer of 1830 wearily observed , without them there would be no novels , no ...
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 |