Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity

by E. Eisner

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230228153
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/16/2009
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

ERIC EISNER is Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, USA, where he teaches courses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, Romanticism, literary theory and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Systems of Literary Lionism Keats, Lyric and Personality The Cenci 's Celebrity Shelley's Glamour The Atmosphere of Authorship: Landon, Byron and Literary Culture Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Energies of Fandom Notes Index