03941nam 22006253 450 991083829320332120231110231626.09781684483945(electronic bk.)978168448391410.36019/9781684483945(MiAaPQ)EBC7041418(Au-PeEL)EBL7041418(CKB)24234443200041(MiAaPQ)EBC29377766(Au-PeEL)EBL29377766(OCoLC)1335407906(MdBmJHUP)musev2_102550(DE-B1597)637777(DE-B1597)9781684483945(EXLCZ)992423444320004120220713d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Limits of Familiarity Authorship and Romantic Readers1st ed.New Brunswick :Bucknell University Press,2022.©2022.1 online resource (259 pages)Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture 1650-1850 Print version: Eckert, Lindsey The Limits of Familiarity New Brunswick : Bucknell University Press,c2022 9781684483914 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 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 -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR"What 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 for Romantic-era readers. Confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, gossip columns, and more gave readers exceptional access to well-known authors. But how close was too close? 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 argues that these questions influenced literary production in the Romantic period. Uniting 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 line between telling all and telling all too much"--Provided by publisher.Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture 1650-1850 Books and readingGreat BritainHistory18th centuryFameSocial aspectsGreat BritainHistory18th centuryAuthors and readersGreat BritainHistory18th centuryRomanticismEnglandLady Caroline Lamb, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, William Hazlitt, Byron, romanticism, book history, reception studies, romantic celebrity, nineteenth-century print culture, oversharing, fan mail, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Percy Bysshe Shelley.Books and readingHistoryFameSocial aspectsHistoryAuthors and readersHistoryRomanticism820.9/145820.9145Eckert Lindsey1726645MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910838293203321The Limits of Familiarity4132579UNINA