Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle [electronic resource] /
Boyce, C.author.
Finnerty, P.author.
Millim, A.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 At Home with Tennyson: Virtual Literary Tourism and the Commodification of Celebrity in the Periodical Press; 2 'This Is the Sort of Fame for Which I Have Given My Life': G. F. Watts, Edward Lear and Portraits of Fame and Nonsense; 3 'She Shall Be Made Immortal': Julia Margaret Cameron's Photography and the Construction of Celebrity; 4 Personal Museums: the Fan Diaries of Charles Dodgson and William Allingham; 5 'Troops of Unrecording Friends': Vicarious Celebrity in the Memoir
6 'Much Honour and Much Fame Were Lost': Idylls of the King and Camelot's Celebrity CircleBibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
British literature.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Poetry.
Literature-Philosophy.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.