Re-evaluating the Literary Coterie, 1580-1830 [electronic resource] : From Sidney to Blackwood's /
Bowers, Will.editor.
Crummé, Hannah Leah.editor.
This book is about the literary and friendship networks that were active in Britain for a 250- year period. Patterns in the nature of literary social circles emerge: they may centre upon a location, like Christ Church, or a person, like Aaron Hill; they may suffer stress when private relationships become public knowledge, as Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon shows; and they may model themselves on a preceding age, as the relationship between the Sidney circle and Lady Mary Wroth exemplifies. Despite these similarities, no two coteries are the same. The circles this volume examines even differ in their acceptance of their own status as a coterie: someone like Constance Fowler was certainly part of a strict familial coterie; the Scriberlians were a more informal set who were also members of other groups; and although Byron's years of fame are regularly associated with Holland House, he often denied being of their party.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction; Will Bowers and Hannah Leah Crummé -- 1. Literary Coteries of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke; Mary Ellen Lamb -- 2. The Circulation of Verse at the Inns of Court and in London in Early Stuart England; Arthur Marotti -- 3. Maecenas and Oxford-Witts:Pedagogy and Flattery in Seventeenth-Century Oxford; Christopher Burlinson -- 4. 'If I had known him, I would have loved him.' Bloomsbury appropriations of the Scriblerian coterie; Abigail Williams and Peter Huhne -- 5. The Hillarian Circle: Scorpions, sexual politics and heterosocial coteries; Christine Gerrard -- 6. Edmund Spenser and Coterie Culture, 1774-1790; Hazel Wilkinson -- 7. Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the forging of the Romantic literary coterie; Felicity James -- 8. The Many Rooms of Holland House; Will Bowers -- 9. Aggressive Intimacy: Mass Markets and the Blackwood's Magazine Coterie; Robert Morrison -- Afterword; Helen Hackett -- Bibliography -- Index.-.
This book is about the literary and friendship networks that were active in Britain for a 250- year period. Patterns in the nature of literary social circles emerge: they may centre upon a location, like Christ Church, or a person, like Aaron Hill; they may suffer stress when private relationships become public knowledge, as Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon shows; and they may model themselves on a preceding age, as the relationship between the Sidney circle and Lady Mary Wroth exemplifies. Despite these similarities, no two coteries are the same. The circles this volume examines even differ in their acceptance of their own status as a coterie: someone like Constance Fowler was certainly part of a strict familial coterie; the Scriberlians were a more informal set who were also members of other groups; and although Byron's years of fame are regularly associated with Holland House, he often denied being of their party.
Literature-History and criticism.
British literature.
Literary History.
British and Irish Literature.