Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity [electronic resource] /
Eisner, E.author.
While artistically ambitious poets of the era are often characterized as preferring a lasting future fame to contemporary popularity, this book reveals that a sophisticated, strategic and fascinated engagement with new modes of fame was central to the experiments with literary form of poets such as Byron, Keats, Shelley and Barrett Browning.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-193) and index.
Systems of literary lionism -- Keats, lyric and personality -- The Cenci's celebrity -- Shelley's glamour -- The atmosphere of authorship: Landon, Byron and literary culture -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the energies of fandom.
While artistically ambitious poets of the era are often characterized as preferring a lasting future fame to contemporary popularity, this book reveals that a sophisticated, strategic and fascinated engagement with new modes of fame was central to the experiments with literary form of poets such as Byron, Keats, Shelley and Barrett Browning.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Poetry.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.