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Author: Clara Tuite
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1107082595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the relationship between Lord Byron's life and work, and the Regency culture of scandal.
Author: Ruth Scobie
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1783274085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn intriguing case study on how popular images of Oceania, mediated through a developing culture of celebrity, contributed to the formation of British identity both domestically and as a nascent imperial power in the eighteenth century.
Author: Ghislaine McDayter
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781438425269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that Byron’s popularity marked the beginning of celebrity as a cultural identity.
Author: Tom Mole
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-05-14
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0521884772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring how our modern idea of celebrity was created in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Author: C. Boyce
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 113700794X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTennyson 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.
Author: Lindsey Eckert
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2022-06-17
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1684483921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron’s new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers—sometimes accurate, sometimes not—were tantalizingly at the ready in the Romantic era, when confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, and gossip columns offered readers exceptional access to well-known authors. But at what point did familiarity become overfamiliarity? Widely recognized as a social virtue, familiarity—a feeling of emotional closeness or comforting predictability—could also be dangerous, vulgar, or boring. In The Limits of Familiarity, Eckert persuasively argues that such concerns shaped literary production in the Romantic period. Bringing together reception studies, celebrity studies, and literary history to reveal how anxieties about familiarity shaped both Romanticism and conceptions of authorship, this book encourages us to reflect in our own fraught historical moment on the distinction between telling all and telling all too much.
Author: David Duff
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 817
ISBN-13: 0199660891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of British Romantic literature and an authoritative guide to all aspects of the movement including its historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts, and its connections with the literature and thought of other countries. All the major Romantic writers are covered alongside lesser known writers.
Author: Andrew McConnell Stott
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-09-15
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 1605987042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the spring of 1816, Lord Byron was the greatest poet of his generation and the most famous man in Britain, but his personal life was about to erupt. Fleeing his celebrity, notoriety, and debts, he sought refuge in Europe, taking his young doctor with him. As an inexperienced medic with literary aspirations of his own, Doctor John Polidori could not believe his luck.That summer another literary star also arrived in Geneva. With Percy Bysshe Shelley came his lover, Mary, and her step-sister, Claire Clairmont. For the next three months, this party of young bohemians shared their lives, charged with sexual and artistic tensions. It was a period of extraordinary creativity: Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein, the gothic masterpiece of Romantic fiction; Byron completed Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, his epic poem; and Polidori would begin The Vampyre, the first great vampire novel.It was also a time of remarkable drama and emotional turmoil. For Byron and the Shelleys, their stay by the lake would serve to immortalize them in the annals of literary history. But for Claire and Polidori, the Swiss sojourn would scar them forever.
Author: Riva Tukachinsky Forster
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-05-05
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1793609594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParasocial Romantic Relationships: Falling in Love with Media Figures explores how, why, and to what effect individuals develop romantic feelings toward people they “know” from the media. These imaginary, one-sided relationships, dubbed parasocial romantic relationships, are both profound and pervasive, Riva Tukachinsky Forster argues. These relationships can take many forms, including adolescents who develop celebrity crushes on popular music artist, anime enthusiasts who “marry” their favorite characters, and fanfiction authors who insert themselves into narratives as romantic interests of the protagonist. Through analysis of surveys, in-depth interviews, and historical examples, this book advances our understanding of parasocial romantic relationships on both a sociocultural and a psychological level. The data and theories analyzed offer insights into how individuals can become romantically engaged with people they do not actually know, some of whom may not even exist in reality. Ultimately, Tukachinsky Forster argues that although these relationships exist only in the mind of consumers, they serve important psychological functions across different stages of life and can lead to significant consequences for individuals’ nonmediated relationships. Scholars of media studies, communication, psychology, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.
Author: Clara Dawson
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0198856105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemonstrates how periodicals, newspapers, and annuals influenced Victorian poetry and offers fresh interpretations of central Victorian poets including Tennyson, Barrett Browning, Browning, Arnold, Landon, and Clough.
