Lindsey Eckert

The Limits of Familiarity

Authorship and Romantic Readers

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781684483907
• ISBN-10: 1684483905
• Artikelnr.: 62561494

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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