Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity

2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-22815-3
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 400 g

While artistically ambitious poets of the era are often characterized as preferring a lasting future fame to contemporary popularity, this book reveals that a sophisticated, strategic and fascinated engagement with new modes of fame was central to the experiments with literary form of poets such as Byron, Keats, Shelley and Barrett Browning.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eisner, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction Systems of Literary Lionism Keats, Lyric and Personality The Cenci 's Celebrity Shelley's Glamour The Atmosphere of Authorship: Landon, Byron and Literary Culture Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Energies of Fandom Notes Index

Über Autor(innen)

ERIC EISNER is Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, USA, where he teaches courses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, Romanticism, literary theory and cultural studies.