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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... Blake's copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds's Works ( 1798 ) 155 22 Notes by William Blake in a copy of Francis Bacon's Essays ( 1798 ) 162-63 23 Notes and underlining by Keats in Milton's Paradise Lost ( 1807 ) 184-85 24 The decorative first ...
... Blake, Leigh Hunt, John Thelwall, and John Keats. These gifted writers might be expected to prove themselves exceptional readers and to raise the standard in whatever they wrote, even if only marginalia, but the previous groups of books ...
... Blake noted with approval in 1800 , " There are now I believe as many Booksellers as there are Butchers . " 31 Crabb Robinson recorded the rumor that Joseph Johnson had made at least £ 10,000 as the publisher of Cowper ( 1 : 381 ) . The ...
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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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