What the Victorians Made of Romanticism : : Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History / / Tom Mole.
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 th...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 28 halftones. 2 line illus. 4 tables. 2 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations & Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Don Juan in the Pub
- PART I. THE WEB OF RECEPTION
- Romantic Writers in the Victorian Media Ecology
- Reception Traditions and Punctual Historicism
- Minding the Generation Gap
- PART II. ILLUSTRATIONS
- Illustration as Renovation
- Renovating Romantic Poetry: Retrofitted Illustrations
- Turning the Page: Illustrated Frontmatter
- PART III. SERMONS
- A Religious Reception Tradition
- Converting Shelley
- Spurgeon, Byron, and the Contingencies of Mediation
- PART IV. STATUES
- Secular Pantheons for the Reformed Nation: Byron in Cambridge
- The Distributed Pantheon: Scott in Edinburgh
- The Networked Pantheon: Byron in London
- PART V. 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index