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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... . 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.
... manuscript it is better to sell it outright than have the trouble ( if it be attended with success ) of printing & reprinting , binding advertizing & vending it . " 28 Coleridge was perhaps typical of his kind in not knowing quite what ...
... manuscript — a practice of obvious relevance to the writers of marginalia . The advent of print did not mean the end of handwritten texts , and private libraries continued to contain manuscript introduction 21.
... manuscript material . Coleridge's " Christabel " acquired a reputation years before it was printed , thanks to Coleridge's recitations and to the " wide circula- tion " of copies in manuscript.39 As a schoolboy , Coleridge by his own ...
... manuscript , which breaks off in mid- sentence , is in the Lewis Walpole Library associated with Yale Univer- sity . It has a lot to say about the publishing system which Trusler fought for many years , and incidentally about topical ...
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 |