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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... usually taken for granted and ignored . This evidence of ordinary “ common - sense ” use is included because it represents a part of the continuum of the practice of readers writing in books — it's part of the whole picture— and because ...
... usually considered part of the public record and cast a different light on ones that are . In a period for which the official history is generally grim , the history of reading is a bright , if untidy , area — and that seemingly because ...
... usually anonymously and without pay . Southey's advice to a young poet in 1808 was to start with the newspapers and gauge the response : if the work did well he would be able to ask for a fee an- other time , and so work up to a volume ...
... usually described as a London eccentric ; that was certainly the way his contemporaries saw him ( Fig . 5 ) . But the Dickensian ups and downs of his career only reflect the realities of the publishing system , its opportunities on the ...
... usually to do with traditions maintained , not with innovations . Some kinds of books were routinely printed with space between the lines of the text ( Greek and Latin classics , for example ) or with wide margins ( as in law books ) to ...
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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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