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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... kind is found in books connected with the professional work of educators , lawyers , and publishers ; in the first chapter , therefore , while stopping short of actual professional paper- work , I confront the sort of workaday routine ...
... kind is another question . Historians find support for the idea of a new mass market in popula- tion statistics and literacy rates . Between 1780 and 1830 the population of Great Britain had doubled , from approximately 7 to 14 millions ...
... kind in not knowing quite what to do but being ready to try almost anything , as as his correspondence with successive publishers shows . In 1796 , for instance , he was taken with a scheme of Count Rumford's ( probably his ideas about ...
... kind or another sustained him for most of his life . He edited books on boxing ( 1788 ? ) , ghosts ( 1791 ) , and medicinal plants ( 1793 ) , which he published himself . He started up the popular Conjuror's Maga- zine in 1792 and the ...
... kind of exclusive marketing that it represented : Could we restrain then that Inundation of books of which printing is the origin cou [ l ] d we by a tax on every sheet make them so difficult to come at nothing but a heart felt ...
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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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