Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity

by Eric Eisner

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230228151
• ISBN13: 9780230228153
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"