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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... thing he did not do was run a jobbing press. John Soulby of Ulverston in Lancashire, about 1807, advertised as ''printer, book-binder, book-seller, and stationer''; he carried patent medicines, supplied periodical publications, and kept ...
... thing , what else could a buyer have ? Through- out the period , an elegant entertainment : a seat in the pit at the opera , a ticket for a masquerade at the Pantheon in Oxford Street ( with sup- per ) , or a place at a benefit concert ...
... 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 organizations at all levels and encouraged ...
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Contents
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1 Mundane Marginalia | 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 |