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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... advertised as ''printer, book-binder, book-seller, and stationer''; he carried patent medicines, supplied periodical publications, and kept a circulating li- brary. His stationer's stock included gold and silver toothpicks, wall- papers ...
... advertised , and we know that there were cheaper alternatives ; still it is noteworthy that Blair's sermons , Adam Smith's lectures , and Gibbon's history could be had when first published for five or six shillings a volume ( 1790 ) but ...
... advertised de luxe features such as copperplate engravings and expensive paper , promoting their books as long - term investments . T. J. Mathias , satirizing the trade in his Pursuits of Literature ( 1794-97 ) , observed that even law ...
... advertised in the newspapers ; through book clubs , which distributed books among their members , sometimes by drawing lots , when the group was finished with them ; and through the circulating libraries , which traded among themselves ...
... advertised in the press and through publishers ' advertisements in other books ; the parts were distributed by retail booksellers and newsagents . Southey claims , credibly , that as a schoolboy , a merchant's son in the West Country ...
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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 |