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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mole, Tom, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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