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The Limits of Familiarity analyzes the intensely personal feelings that Romantic-era readers came to have for authors. Contributing to reception studies, celebrity studies, and literary history, this book reveals how anxieties about the cultural value of familiarity shaped both Romanticism and conceptions of authorship.
Sommario
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Familiarity's " due bounds"
1. Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, and the Problems of Reading Familiarity
2. "Though a stranger to you": Byron's Poetics of Familiarity and Readerly Attachment
3. Lady Caroline Lamb's Female Follies and the Dangers of Familiarity
4. "the whole cursed story": William Hazlitt's Familiar Style
5. Mediating a Manuscript Ethos: Familiarity in Albums and Literary Annuals
Coda: Lifting "the film of familiarity"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Info autore
LINDSEY ECKERT is an assistant professor of English at Florida State University in Tallahassee, where her research and teaching focus on Romanticism and the history of text technologies.
Riassunto
Confessional poetry, romans a clef, personal essays, gossip columns, and more gave Romantic-era readers exceptional access to well-known authors. But how close was too close? In The Limits of Familiarity, Eckert argues that these questions influenced literary production in the Romantic period.
