Romantic Readers

The Evidence of Marginalia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

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.This period experienced a great increase in readership and a boom in publishing. H. J. Jackson shows how readers used their books for work, for socializing, and for leaving messages to posterity. She draws on the annotations of Blake, Coleridge, Keats, and other celebrities as well as those of little known and unknown writers to discover how people were reading and what this can tell us about literature, social history, and the history of the book.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-07-15
Mått:156 x 235 x 31 mm
Vikt:767 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:384
Upplaga:5002
Förlag:Yale University Press
ISBN:9780300107852

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H. J. Jackson is a professor, Department of English, University of Toronto. She has published extensively on Romantic literature, and her book Marginalia was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in literarty criticism.

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"I wish I had read this book years ago, when I was setting out to be a scholar of the Romantics. This book’s richnesses are manifold. Like its forerunner, Marginalia, this is scholarship of the highest distinction.”—Harold Bloom