Romantic Readers: The Evidence of MarginaliaYale University Press, 1 d’oct. 2008 - 384 pàgines When 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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... Bibliomania ( 1811 ) with an engraved portrait of the author ( 1821 ) by Mary Turner , wife of Dawson Turner 215 25 A page from The R --- l Brood , 15th edition ( 1814 ) , by “ Peter Pindar , Jun . , " with notes by an unidentified ...
... knew it fairly well but more importantly because at that time the press was ex- traordinarily busy , “ bibliomania ” took off in Britain , extended literacy χι became a matter of public concern , and perhaps not Preface.
... Bibliomania by more than a decade. The happy ending of Lemoine's story is that he was able to go back to his book- stand in 1807 and kept it the rest of his life. A more commanding figure than Lemoine, but at least as versatile, is John ...
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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 |
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