What the Victorians Made of Romanticism : Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History /

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This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the reputations of Romantic writers. Tom Mole provides a new reception history of Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth--one t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mole, Tom, 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Romanticism.
English literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne > 19e siecle.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Romanticism > Great Britain > 19th century.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the reputations of Romantic writers. Tom Mole provides a new reception history of Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth--one that moves beyond the punctual historicism of much recent criticism and the narrow horizons of previous reception histories. He attends instead to the material artifacts and cultural practices that remediated Romantic writers and their works amid shifting understandings of history, memory, and media. Mole scrutinizes Victorian efforts to canonize and commodify Romantic writers in a changed media ecology. He shows how illustrated books renovated Romantic writing, how preachers incorporated irreligious Romantics into their sermons, how new statues and memorials integrated Romantic writers into an emerging national pantheon, and how anthologies mediated their works to new generations. This ambitious study investigates a wide range of material objects Victorians made in response to Romantic writing--such as photographs, postcards, books, and collectibles--that in turn remade the public's understanding of Romantic writers.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (336 pages).
Premios:SHARP DeLong Book History Prize
ISBN:9781400887897

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