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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... say about the publishing system which Trusler fought for many years , and incidentally about topical issues like literacy ; self- interested and polemical , it is nevertheless valuable for its hard facts as well as for its forceful ...
... says Jane Austen in a letter.52 ) As a rough - and - ready way of gauging the relative value of books in the period , it is instructive to look at newspaper advertisements for new books alongside advertisements for other commodities and ...
... says he knew one " street - reader " who got through two volumes of Clarissa , one of the longest novels in the language , that way . And there were the philanthropists ' freebies . The Cheap Repository Tracts sold for as little as a ...
... say , of course , that books circulated freely , but that it was customary to lend , borrow , and split costs . There can have been few personal libraries that met the owner's every need , there were no free nonsec- tarian public ...
... say , two apprentices agreeing to buy some- thing together so as to halve the cost to each - there existed various more regular kinds of association . The periodicals , with a commercial interest in such associations , publicized new ...
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 |