Ornamental Gentlemen

by Michael E. Robinson

Why is book collecting controversial in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, and what role does book collecting play in the history of homophobia? How does the buying and collecting of books figure in the lives and works of the Romantics, those supposed apostles of spiritualized poetic genius? What is "bibliomania," and what makes this "book-disease" significant in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture? This book addresses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748682457
• ISBN13: 9780748682454
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages