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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... live performances of various kinds were occa- sionally available, for everyday recreation in the absence of radio, television, CDs, movies, and the Internet, people of all classes read or were read to or looked at prints together ...
... lives by developments in publishing as well as by the events that make up official history . From the reader's perspective , the peace treaty signed between France and Germany in 1797 and the naval mutinies of early summer in that year ...
... live up to handsome furniture.51 ( “ I detest a quarto , ” says Jane Austen in a letter.52 ) As a rough - and - ready way of gauging the relative value of books in the period , it is instructive to look at newspaper advertisements for ...
... lives of the best English poets of the past century from Samuel Johnson for the series that came to be known as " Johnson's Poets , ” published in 68 octavo volumes in 1779–81 , they were challenged by John Bell's rival series in 109 ...
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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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