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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... Reasons Not to Study Manuscripts " ( 40 ) . " How can we avoid anachronism , the fatal sin of most historical research ? One of the best strategies lies through marginalia . " The second challenge was my own . In a survey of readers ...
... reasons that will become appar- ent in the course of this book , the period presents , through marginalia , a particularly rich record of readers ' engagement with their books . Romantic Readers is therefore in the first place an ...
... reason, in establishing a context I have tried to get back behind the standard secondary studies to their sources in the letters, diaries, memoirs, and journalism of the period, so that there too Romantic readers can have their own say ...
... reason for rejoicing or for regret . In 1793 Horace Walpole deplored the " herd of idle readers ” —here there is no explicit social distinction - generated by the periodicals , which , as Introduction: The Reading Environment.
... reason it did not appear in a local bookshop or circu- lating library it could be ordered from the publisher , directly by post or through the newsagent , to be delivered within a week.18 A second- effect of this excellent commercial ...
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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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