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

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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The web of reception. Romantic writers in the Victorian media ecology
  • Reception traditions and punctual historicism
  • Minding the generation gap
  • Illustrations. Illustration as renovation
  • Renovating romantic poetry: retrofitted illustrations
  • Turning the page: illustrated frontmatter
  • Sermons. A religious reception tradition
  • Converting Shelley
  • Spurgeon, Byron, and the contingencies of mediation
  • Statues.
  • Secular pantheons for the reformed: Byron in Cambridge
  • The distributed pantheon: Scott in Edinburgh
  • The networked Pantheon: Byron in London
  • Anthologies. Scattered odes in shattered books: quantifying Victorian anthologies
  • Romantic short poems in Victorian anthologies
  • Romantic long poems in Victorian anthologies
  • Coda: Ozymandias at the Olympics; or, she walks in Brixton.