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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... original — too true indeed to be acceptable to parsons . وو A step up from the commercial circulating libraries were what are sometimes called " general " subscription libraries , in which subscribers were shareholders : they owned the ...
... original contribution to his working library , apart , that is , from sporadic efforts to copy materials from one book into another , was his habit of adding to classical texts parallel passages from major English writers . This ...
... original purchase . In December 1862 the Trustees of the British Museum were sent a hand- written list of 502 books , most of them unimportant editions and many of those Dublin editions , from which they chose to buy just under 200 ...
... original reasoning as well as the conclusion . Alongside his professional reading , MacDermott enjoyed literary recreations and annotated copies of Latin , English , and French authors in much the same spirit as he brought to Magendie ...
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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 |