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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... thought there might be a way . “ How can we recapture the mental processes by which readers appropriated texts ? ” he asks in “ Seven Bad Reasons Not to Study Manuscripts " ( 40 ) . " How can we avoid anachronism , the fatal sin of most ...
... thought of at first as a by-product of the survey, now seems to me of interest in its own right as a display of the richness and variety of the book world at the time. Since most of the materials of this study—the marginalia themselves ...
... thought that the judgment of the marketplace had been affected for the worse : " the art of printing has rendered the beauties of poetry accessible to persons of all degrees of information , and has increased the number of bad judges ...
... thought authors were ill advised to hold onto their copyrights , partly because of the inconvenience to buyers , who might have to order specially from the author rather than dealing with their regular bookseller ; and partly because ...
... thought publishing as he had been obliged to do it was hardly worth the trouble . He provides figures to back up this contention . Let a Publisher be ever so circumspect and cautious one Publication in five will scarce reimburse the ...
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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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