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Reading Public Romanticism

Product Description: Reading Public Romanticism is a significant new example of the linking of esthetics and historical criticism. Here Paul Magnuson locates Romantic poetry within a public discourse that combines politics and esthetics, nationalism and domesticity, sexuality and morality, law and legitimacy...read more

By Paul Magnuson

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9780691637402 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Reading Public Romanticism is a significant new example of the linking of esthetics and historical criticism.

9780691057941 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $72.00

Paperback:

9780691609041 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Reading Public Romanticism is a significant new example of the linking of esthetics and historical criticism.

Watchwords: Romanticism and the Poetics of Attention

Product Description: This book revisits British Romanticism as a poetics of heightened attention. At the turn of the nineteenth century, as Britain was on the alert for a possible French invasion, attention became a phenomenon of widespread interest, one that aligned and distinguished an unusual range of fields (including medicine, aesthetics, theology, ethics, pedagogy, and politics)...read more

By Lily Gurton-wachter

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9780804796958 | Stanford Univ Pr, March 23, 2016, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This book revisits British Romanticism as a poetics of heightened attention.

The Business of the Novel: Economics, Aesthetics and the Case of Middlemarch

Product Description: This study shows how aesthetics and economics have been combined in a great work of literature. Frost examines the history of Middlemarchâs composition and publication within the context of Victorian demand, then goes on to consider the interpretation, reception and consumption of the book...read more

By Simon R. Frost

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9781848931947 | Pickering & Chatto Ltd, January 31, 2012, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This study shows how aesthetics and economics have been combined in a great work of literature.

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9781138661622 | Routledge, January 20, 2016, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: This study shows how aesthetics and economics have been combined in a great work of literature.

Reading and the Victorians

Product Description: What did reading mean to the Victorians? This question is the key point of departure for Reading and the Victorians, an examination of the era when reading underwent a swifter and more radical transformation than at any other moment in history...read more

By Juliet John (editor)

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9781409440802 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 5, 2015, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: What did reading mean to the Victorians?

Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle

Product Description: Tennyson experienced at first hand the all-pervasive nature of celebrity culture. It caused him to retreat from the eyes of the world. This book delineates Tennyson's reluctant celebrity and its effects on his writings, on his coterie of famous and notable friends and on the ever-expanding, media-led circle of Tennyson's admirers...read more

By Charlotte Boyce

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9781137007933 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 31, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Tennyson experienced at first hand the all-pervasive nature of celebrity culture.

Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850-1914

Product Description: This study examines literary celebrity in Britain from 1850 to 1914 with chapters focused on a variety of Victorian authors, including Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, and Octavia Hill. Through lively analysis of rare cultural materials, Easley demonstrates the crucial role of the celebrity author in the formation of British national identity...read more

By Alexis Easley

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9781611490169 | Univ of Delaware Pr, April 29, 2011, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: This study examines literary celebrity in Britain from 1850 to 1914.

Paperback:

9781611494778 | Reprint edition (Univ of Delaware Pr, July 5, 2013), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: This study examines literary celebrity in Britain from 1850 to 1914 with chapters focused on a variety of Victorian authors, including Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, and Octavia Hill.

Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century

Product Description: In 1788, the "Catalogue of Five Hundred Celebrated Authors of Great Britain, Now Living" forecast a form of authorship that rested on biographical revelation and media saturation as well as literary achievement. This collection traces the unique experiences of women writers within a celebrity culture that was intimately connected to the expansion of print technology and of visual and material culture in the nineteenth century...read more

By Maura Ives (editor)

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9780754667025 | Ashgate Pub Co, February 1, 2012, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: In 1788, the "Catalogue of Five Hundred Celebrated Authors of Great Britain, Now Living" forecast a form of authorship that rested on biographical revelation and media saturation as well as literary achievement.

How the Writings of William Morris Shaped the Literary Style of Tennyson, Swinburne, Gissing, and Yeats: Barthesian Re-writings Based on the Pleasure of Distorting Repetition

Product Description: This text is the first to examine the influence of William Morris on the artistic, literary and ideological styles of Tennyson, Swinburne, Gissing, and Yeats. This book focuses on a selection of Morris' writings (lectures, short stories, poems and romances) and situates them in the fields of art, culture and society...read more

By Eleonora Sasso

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9780773439139 | Edwin Mellen Pr, October 31, 2011, cover price $139.95 | About this edition: This text is the first to examine the influence of William Morris on the artistic, literary and ideological styles of Tennyson, Swinburne, Gissing, and Yeats.

Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900

Product Description: In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work "The English Common Reader" transformed the study of book history. Putting readers at the centre of literary culture, Altick anticipated-and helped produce-fifty years of scholarly inquiry into the ways and means by which the Victorians read...read more

By Beth Palmer (editor)

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9781409400271, titled "A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900" | Ashgate Pub Co, April 30, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work "The English Common Reader" transformed the study of book history.

Rereading the Nineteenth Century: Studies in the Old Criticism from Austen to Lawrence

By Igor Webb

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9780230100275 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 15, 2010, cover price $100.00

Nineteenth-century Poetry and Literary Celebrity

By Eric Eisner

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9780230228153 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, November 15, 2009), cover price $115.00

Romanticism And the Rise of the Mass Public

Product Description: Dramatic changes in the reading public and literary market in early nineteenth-century England not only altered the relationship between poet and reader but prompted new conceptions of the poetic text, literary reception, and authorship...read more

By Andrew Franta

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9780521868877 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2007, cover price $134.99 | About this edition: Dramatic changes in the reading public and literary market in early nineteenth-century England not only altered the relationship between poet and reader but prompted new conceptions of the poetic text, literary reception, and authorship.

Paperback:

9780521117104 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 30, 2009), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Dramatic changes in the reading public and literary market in early nineteenth-century England not only altered the relationship between poet and reader but prompted new conceptions of the poetic text, literary reception, and authorship.

Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre

Product Description: In this study Deborah Vlock shows that characters, dialogue, and plots from many of Charles Dickens' novels can be traced to the Victorian stage, and that contemporary readers and writers of fiction were strongly influenced by what they saw at the theater...read more

By Deborah Vlock

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9780521640848 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $149.99 | About this edition: In this study Deborah Vlock shows that characters, dialogue, and plots from many of Charles Dickens' novels can be traced to the Victorian stage, and that contemporary readers and writers of fiction were strongly influenced by what they saw at the theater.

Paperback:

9780521026888 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 2, 2006), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: In this study Deborah Vlock shows that characters, dialogue, and plots from many of Charles Dickens' novels can be traced to the Victorian stage, and that contemporary readers and writers of fiction were strongly influenced by what they saw at the theater.

Poetical Remains: Poets' Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century

Product Description: In 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his unpublished poems in his dead wife's grave; in 1869 he dug them up and published them. This innovative cultural history, drawing on emerging disciplines of book history and death studies, explores the many strange stories about the deaths of Romantic and Victorian poets, and the "last words," books, relics, memorials, and objects that survived them...read more

By Samantha Matthews

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9780199254637 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 19, 2004, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: In 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his unpublished poems in his dead wife's grave; in 1869 he dug them up and published them.

Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the 'Perilous Trade' of Authorship

Product Description: Drawing on the rhetorical work of James Phelan, Wayne Booth's ethical criticism, recent work on William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as an understanding of the role of scepticism in 18th- and 19th-century English thought, Thackeray's "Skeptical Narrative and the 'Perilous Trade' of Authorship" makes a substantial contribution to 19th-century reading practices, as well as narratology in general...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Judith L. Fisher

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9780754606512 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, September 1, 2002, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Drawing on the rhetorical work of James Phelan, Wayne Booth's ethical criticism, recent work on William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as an understanding of the role of scepticism in 18th- and 19th-century English thought, Thackeray's "Skeptical Narrative and the 'Perilous Trade' of Authorship" makes a substantial contribution to 19th-century reading practices, as well as narratology in general.

Shelley and His Readers: Beyond Paranoid Politics

Product Description: In Shelley and His Readers, the first full-length critical analysis of the dialogue between Shelley's poetry and its contemporary reviewers, Kim Wheatley argues that Shelley's idealism can be recovered through the study of his poetry's reception...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kim Wheatley

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9780826212214 | Univ of Missouri Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In Shelley and His Readers, the first full-length critical analysis of the dialogue between Shelley's poetry and its contemporary reviewers, Kim Wheatley argues that Shelley's idealism can be recovered through the study of his poetry's reception.

Relationships of Sympathy: The Writer and the Reader in British Romanticism

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By Thomas J. McCarthy

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9781859283158 | Scolar Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $120.00

Dear Reader: The Conscripted Audience in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

Product Description: "Ready now, reader? Easy then. That should put you in the right historical frame of mind, put you in mind of the right historical frame. For it did seem easier then, certainly more relaxed. Like the addressed and otherwise rendered nineteenth-century reader who is my subject of study, you are invited to take it slow while we back our way into the last century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Garrett Stewart

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9780801852824 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: "Ready now, reader?

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9780801852831 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: "Ready now, reader?

Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron Legend

Product Description: Byron wasâto echo Wordsworthâhalf-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that "to seduce is to die to reality and reconstitute oneself as illusion." But among the readers he seduced, in person and in poetry, were women possessed of vivid imaginations who collaborated with him in fashioning his legend...read more

By James Soderholm

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9780813119397 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, November 9, 1995, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Byron wasâto echo Wordsworthâhalf-perceived and half-created.

Reviewing Sex: Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels

Product Description: When Scenes of Clerical Life appeared anonymously in 1853 the Saturday Review pictured its author, George Eliot, as a bearded Cambridge clergyman and the revered father of several children. When Anthony Trollope published Nina Balatka and Linda Tressel anonymously in 1867, the London Review argued that the internal evidence required the author to be female...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Nicola Diane Thompson

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9780814782118 | New York Univ Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: When Scenes of Clerical Life appeared anonymously in 1853 the Saturday Review pictured its author, George Eliot, as a bearded Cambridge clergyman and the revered father of several children.

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9780814782125 | New York Univ Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: When Scenes of Clerical Life appeared anonymously in 1853 the Saturday Review pictured its author, George Eliot, as a bearded Cambridge clergyman and the revered father of several children.

Robert Browning's Literary Life: From First Work to Masterpiece