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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... record of marginalia in the period shows that they had established practices of their own and that at least some of them—the Duke of Sussex, for example—were capable of intelligent engagement with the contents of the books they owned ...
... records having taken Mrs. Gurney to hear Coleridge lecture in the afternoon, and then bringing her home where they ''heard Mr. Gurney read Mrs. Fry's examination before the committee of the House of Commons about Newgate—a very curious ...
... records of women as readers-aloud, Jane Austen among them; so I'm not disposed to make heavy weather of the power ... record that can usefully and safely be taken as representative partly because it is confirmed by other evidence (not ...
... record progress; and they may have been responsible for marks at passages deserving special attention. Besides such routine use, I note a few special cases in the collections of the British Library, special because they were tailored to ...
... recording variant readings from manuscripts or from other printed editions, by proposing emendations where the text does not make sense, and by introducing parallel passages that show how other classical writers used the same words or ...
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 |