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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... method of a book be irregular , reduce it into form by a little analysis of your own , or by hints in the margin : if those things are heaped together , which should be separated , you may wisely distinguish and divide them . . . all ...
... method , to improve your judgment in general , and to give you a fuller survey of that subject in particular . When ... methods worked best ; that the tutor's task was to inculcate good habits , not to enforce strict rules ; and that the ...
... methods of instruction in America about this time , William J. Gilmore observes , first , that the process of learning was probably more rapid because they were thus building on oral practice , and , second , that " the substance of ...
... methods of note - taking , from the seemingly verbatim report to the distanced critical appraisal . A British Library ... method of note - taking in be- tween , or perhaps he was present at only two or three lectures . These notes appear ...
... methods , as catalogues of books are in bibliography today , either by combing through and synthesizing previous catalogues or by exam- ining actual specimens ... method of confirmation and correction was an essen- mundone marginalia JJ.
Contents
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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 |