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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... Walpole, Hester Piozzi, William 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 ...
... Walpole Library in Farming- ton , Connecticut . And for cheerful , expert support in the final stages , my thanks to Larisa Heimert , Phillip King , and Kay Scheuer of Yale University Press . POSTSCRIPT William St. Clair's The Reading ...
... reason for rejoicing or for regret . In 1793 Horace Walpole deplored the " herd of idle readers ” —here there is no explicit social distinction - generated by the periodicals , which , as Introduction: The Reading Environment.
... longevity . The first volume. fig. 5 Henry Lemoine: frontispiece to the Wonderful Museum, vol. 5 (1807). Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. FIG . 8 Title page of Hannah More's The Sorrows. introduction 23.
... Walpole Library associated with Yale Univer- sity . It has a lot to say about the publishing system which Trusler fought for many years , and incidentally about topical issues like literacy ; self- interested and polemical , it is ...
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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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