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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... position, observing that ''Every man, nay, almost every woman, now reads, thinks, projects, and accomplishes,'' with the result that ''the poorest peasant is now enabled to trace the language of truth, in pages calculated by the ...
... position for di√erent reasons. He kept his copyrights only because he could not get what he considered a fair price from another publisher. He thought copyrights were more trouble than they were worth: ''if a Writer cannot sell his ...
... position of writers diminished that of publishers and obliged them to try new devices to keep ahead of their competitors. By 1790 it was already clear that even with little capital investment fortunes could be made through authorship ...
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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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