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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... later , though , in the Monthly Magazine of August 1800 , Mary Robinson took a more positive position , observing that “ Every man , nay , almost every woman , now reads , thinks , projects , and accom- plishes , ” with the result that ...
... later documented by historians : general education ( fostered by the churches ) leading to widespread basic literacy and a demand for print which in turn brought about increased profits and competition in the publishing business ...
... later does not make much sense , and we have to consider other possibilities . A second approach to the alleged reading revolution starts from the business or supply end of things rather than from the demand end . It emphasizes the ...
... later . But publishers had no exclusive legal claim to the texts themselves and had to find other ways of making their reprint editions more desirable than anyone else's . So when a consortium of London publishers commissioned lives of ...
... later , his sack . As a last resort they would still fetch a price as waste paper . The traditional joke or threat in literary circles was that pages of a book could end up as curl - papers for hairdressing , lining for luggage ...
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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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