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

by Tom Mole

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691175365
• ISBN13: 9780691175362
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"