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Author:

Mole, Tom, 1976- author.

Title:

What the Victorians made of romanticism : material artifacts, cultural practices, and reception history / Tom Mole.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xii, 317 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Romanticism--Great Britain--19th century.
English literature.
Romanticism.
Great Britain.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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: quantifyingVictorian anthologies -- Romantic short poems in Victorian anthologies -- Romantic long poems in Victorian anthologies -- Coda: Ozymandias at the Olympics; or, she walks in Brixton.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0691175365
9780691175362

OCLC:

(OCoLC)974676771

LCCN:

2017007679

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)