The Limits of Familiarity : Authorship and Romantic Readers /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eckert, Lindsey (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Books and reading.
Fame > Social aspects.
Authors and readers.
Romanticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Fame > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Authors and readers > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Romanticism > England.
Great Britain.
England.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Familiarity's "due bounds"
  • Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, and the problems of reading familiarity
  • "Though a stranger to you": Byron's poetics of familiarity and readerly attachment
  • Lady Caroline Lamb's Female follies and the dangers of familiarity
  • "The whole cursed story": William Hazlitt's familiar style
  • Mediating a manuscript ethos: familiarity in albums and literary annuals
  • Coda: Lifting "the film of familiarity.

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