03684nam 22006133 450 991095925130332120251112134501.09781684483945(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(OCoLC)1336402814(EXLCZ)992423444320004120251112d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe limits of familiarity authorship and Romantic readers /Lindsey Eckert1st ed.Lewisburg, Pennsylvania :Bucknell University Press,2022.©20221 online resource (259 pages)Transits: literature, thought & culture 1650-1850Print 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 (Bucknell University)RomanticismEnglandAuthors and readersGreat BritainHistory18th centuryFameSocial aspectsGreat BritainHistory18th centuryBooks and readingGreat BritainHistory18th centuryRomanticismAuthors and readersHistoryFameSocial aspectsHistoryBooks and readingHistory820.9/145Eckert Lindsey1799661MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910959251303321The Limits of Familiarity4344047UNINA