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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... novels and ro- mances (Fig. 1).∂ But neither ridicule nor legislation could stop them. By 1820, according to the Quarterly Review, newspapers, novels, and the improving literature promoted by Dissenters had entirely driven out the ...
... novels, most of them produced by the firm of Colburn and Bentley, in the Monthly Review for March 1830, marveled that in times of ''ruined agriculturalists'' and ''woeful crisis'' readers could still be found for the hundreds of novels ...
... novels. Back in the 1770s, Hester Thrale had won a bet with Johnson by proving that five of the Thrales' eighteen ser- vants had read Don Quixote (though it has to be said, first, that Johnson was surprised by this result, and, second ...
... this period. Constable paid Scott an advance of 1,000 guineas for a poem in 1807 and, once he had proved himself as a novelist, gave him £12,000 for his existing copyrights. Hannah More on the other hand kept her introduction 15.
... novel Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1808) for only twelve shillings but still cleared £2,000 in a year. Murray o√ered Byron £2,000 for Canto 3 of Childe Harold in 1816, and in 1822 o√ered Washington Irving 1,000 guineas for a new work ...
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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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