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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... readers more than. FIG . I " Luxury , or the Comforts of a Rum p ford " ( 1801 ) —the title alluding to Gillray's ... READING PUBLIC ” ( 1 : iv ) . In a private letter also of 1820 , Sydney Smith judiciously assessed the situation and ...
... reading revolu- tion of 1790-1830 consisted in an expansion of the market followed by a transformation of the products of the press , specifically , a switch to periodicals and novels . It was frequently noted that households that might ...
... reading . Some journeymen printers who were out of work tried what a weekly twopenny - worth of miscellaneous extracts would do ; it answered so well , that there were presently between twenty and thirty of these weekly publications ...
... reading at an ad- vanced level for some time before he decided that he needed to be able to write . Does it mean the ability to sound out words , to read aloud , which was the basic goal of elementary schooling ; or does it also entail ...
... readers in 1830 might be right , but it is hardly secure . More damaging to the notion that an increase in literacy rates ef- fected a reading revolution during the Romantic period is the fact that the widespread ability to read seems ...
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 |