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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... interest in its own right as a display of the richness and variety of the book world at the time. Since most of the materials of this study—the marginalia themselves—existed only in an unpublished manuscript form, my first goal has been ...
... interest to the public debate about parliamentary reform that was to culminate in the Reform Bill of 1832.10 ( The point is that only news- papers and topical pamphlets were selling by then , as we tune in to 24- hour news stations at ...
... interest , but the trend is an even upward incline . Production of newspapers and periodi- cals , measured by the number of newcomers every year , also climbed steadily , with a peak in 1824-5 ; and though it is not clear how many of ...
... interests . In the course of a long career he wrote and published dozens of volumes of abridg- ments , from Chesterfield on manners through Blackstone on law to Captain Cook on travel , besides some original compositions . His great ...
... Interest of the Stock [ , ] Insurance & occasiona [ l ] loss allow ten per Cent for this & the net profits are but 30 pr . Cent for all the Understanding , the talents & the Study of a man of Education & learning whilst an Ignorant ...
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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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