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1 online resource (259 pages) |
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Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture 1650-1850 |
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Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture 1650-1850
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION Familiarity's "due bounds" -- 1 CHARLOTTE SMITH, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, AND THE PROBLEMS OF READING FAMILIARITY -- 2 "THOUGH A STRANGER TO YOU" Byron's Poetics of Familiarity and Readerly Attachment -- 3 LADY CAROLINE LAMB'S FEMALE FOLLIES AND THE DANGERS OF FAMILIARITY -- 4 "THE WHOLE CURSED STORY" William Hazlitt's Familiar Style -- 5 MEDIATING A MANUSCRIPT ETHOS Familiarity in Albums and Literary Annuals -- CODA Lifting "the film of familiarity" -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Summary |
"What did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron's new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers-sometimes accurate, sometimes not-were tantalizingly at the ready for Romantic-era readers. Confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, gossip columns, and more gave readers exceptional access to well-known authors. But how close was too close? Widely recognized as a social virtue, familiarity-a feeling of emotional closeness or comforting predictability-could also be dangerous, vulgar, or boring. In The Limits of Familiarity, Eckert argues that these questions influenced literary production in the Romantic period. Uniting reception studies, celebrity studies, and literary history to reveal how anxieties about familiarity shaped both Romanticism and conceptions of authorship, this book encourages us to reflect in our own fraught historical moment on the line between telling all and telling all too much"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Lady Caroline Lamb, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, William Hazlitt, Byron, romanticism, book history, reception studies, romantic celebrity, nineteenth-century print culture, oversharing, fan mail, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
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Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Fame -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Romanticism -- England
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Authors and readers.
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Books and reading.
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Fame -- Social aspects.
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Romanticism.
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England.
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Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021039294 |
| ISBN |
9781684483945 |
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1684483948 |
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