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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... experiences from the past , Darnton thought there might be a way . “ How can we recapture the mental processes by which readers appropriated texts ? ” he asks in “ Seven Bad Reasons Not to Study Manuscripts " ( 40 ) . " How can we avoid ...
... experience of direct contact, and as far as possible to let the voluble readers of the Romantic age speak for themselves. For the same reason, in establishing a context I have tried to get back behind the standard secondary studies to ...
... experience and their collec- tive power . ary Close on the heels of the newspapers and beneficiaries of the same distribution network were the periodical reviews , with smaller circula- tion figures but a longer shelf - life . Taken in ...
... experience , looking back to his own shameful involvement in a fourpenny paper of the 1770s that sold 1,500 copies on the day of issue and made its owner £ 75 a time . FINANCIAL CALCULATIONS When he produced the catalogue of 1790 ...
... experience seemed to prove it right . Low prices increased sales but not necessarily profits . Hannah More's volunteers , buying tracts in bulk to give away , were not looking for a financial return . Paine and Cobbett , successfully ...
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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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