The Limits of Familiarity : : Authorship and Romantic Readers / / Lindsey Eckert.
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 in the Romantic era, when confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, and gossip columns offered readers ex...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 p.) :; 6 b&w images, 3 color images |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION Familiarity’s “due bounds” -- 1 CHARLOTTE SMITH, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, AND THE PROBLEMS OF READING FAMILIARITY -- 2 “THOUGH A STRANGER TO YOU” Byron’s Poetics of Familiarity and Readerly Attachment -- 3 LADY CAROLINE LAMB’S FEMALE FOLLIES AND THE DANGERS OF FAMILIARITY -- 4 “THE WHOLE CURSED STORY” William Hazlitt’s Familiar Style -- 5 MEDIATING A MANUSCRIPT ETHOS Familiarity in Albums and Literary Annuals -- CODA Lifting “the film of familiarity” -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Summary: | 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 in the Romantic era, when confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, and gossip columns offered readers exceptional access to well-known authors. But at what point did familiarity become overfamiliarity? Widely recognized as a social virtue, familiarity—a feeling of emotional closeness or comforting predictability—could also be dangerous, vulgar, or boring. In The Limits of Familiarity, Eckert persuasively argues that such concerns shaped literary production in the Romantic period. Bringing together reception studies, celebrity studies, and literary history to reveal how anxieties about familiarity shaped both Romanticism and conceptions of authorship, this book encourages us to reflect in our own fraught historical moment on the distinction between telling all and telling all too much. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781684483945 9783110993899 9783110994810 9783110993752 9783110993738 9783110766479 |
DOI: | 10.36019/9781684483945?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Lindsey Eckert. |