What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History - Couverture souple

Mole, Tom

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ISBN 10 : 0691202923 ISBN 13 : 9780691202921

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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 that moves beyond the punctual historicism of much recent criticism and the narrow horizons of previous reception histories. He attends instead to the material artifacts and cultural practices that remediated Romantic writers and their works amid shifting understandings of history, memory, and media.

Mole scrutinizes Victorian efforts to canonize and commodify Romantic writers in a changed media ecology. He shows how illustrated books renovated Romantic writing, how preachers incorporated irreligious Romantics into their sermons, how new statues and memorials integrated Romantic writers into an emerging national pantheon, and how anthologies mediated their works to new generations. This ambitious study investigates a wide range of material objects Victorians made in response to Romantic writing-such as photographs, postcards, books, and collectibles-that in turn remade the public's understanding of Romantic writers.

Shedding new light on how Romantic authors were posthumously recruited to address later cultural concerns, What the Victorians Made of Romanticism reveals new histories of appropriation, remediation, and renewal that resonate in our own moment of media change, when once again the cultural products of the past seem in danger of being forgotten if they are not reimagined for new audiences.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tom Mole is Reader in English Literature and Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Byron's Romantic Celebrity, the editor of Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, the coeditor of The Broadview Reader in Book History, and the coauthor of The Broadview Introduction to Book History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691202923
• ISBN 13: 9780691202921
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
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