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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The Evidence of Marginalia H. J. Jackson. became a matter of public concern , and perhaps not coincidentally- marginalia came out into the open . For reasons that will become appar- ent in the course of this book , the period presents ...
... perhaps a few broadsides and chapbooks , now enjoyed a more varied reading diet and demanded nov- elty . The census - taker John Rickman complained in 1812 that “ Every one who reads at all reads a Sunday newspaper , not the Bible ...
... perhaps typical of his 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 ...
... perhaps , meet Turner or Duppa , and Duppa is worth know- ing " ( Life , 2 : 268 ) . What we now refer to as corporate hospitality was a routine part of the business of the successful publishing houses . At the other end of the economic ...
... Perhaps his way of presenting his list of publications as an integrated system of education was driven by the demands of marketing , but by the time he wrote his memoirs , Trusler does seem to have come to believe in this vision of ...
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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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