Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture - Poetry, Manuscript, Print, 1780-1850

This is the first book to tell the story of the Romantic album and its original poetry. It rediscovers a huge number of overlooked Romantic poems, and reconstructs how albums and their owners were represented in print

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: From 'La Grande Chartreuse' to The British Album: Sublimity, Satire, and Early Album Poetics


• 2: Manuscript, Print, Patronage, and Place: Reconstructing the 'Cossey Hall' Album


• 3: 'Like Her, Fair Book, be thou': Lady Jersey and Album Culture


• 4: Albo-mania, Albo-phobia: Satire, Gender, and Album Verses in 1820s Print Culture


• 5: What's in a Name? Kindness to Strangers in Charles Lamb's Album Poetry and Poetics


• 6: 'Here you may trace a pigmy hand, / And there a Giant strength': Daughters, Poet-fathers, and the Wordsworth Circle Albums

About the author

Samantha Matthews is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol. She has wide-ranging interdisciplinary research interests in the literary, visual, and material culture of the long nineteenth century (c. 1780-1920). Her first book, Poetical Remains: Poets' Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century (OUP, 2004), considered the productive relations between dead poets and their literal and literary 'remains.' She has a long-standing interest in book history and manuscript culture, particularly the creative possibilities of blank books. She is editing Charles Lamb's poetry for Oxford's new Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb.

Summary

This is the first book to tell the story of the Romantic album and its original poetry. It rediscovers a huge number of overlooked Romantic poems, and reconstructs how albums and their owners were represented in print

Additional text

Samantha Matthews's Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture is a welcome shoot on the vigorous and growing branch of critical studies devoted to manuscript and participatory literary forms practiced in the eighteenthand nineteenth-century Anglophone world.

Product details

• Authors: Samantha Matthews, Samantha (Senior Lecturer in English Matthews, Matthews Samantha
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780198857945
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885794-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets