What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History

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This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the reputations of Romantic writers. Tom Mole provides a new reception history of Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth--one that moves beyond the punctual historicism of much

Tom Mole is Reader in English Literature and Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Byron's Romantic Celebrity, the editor of Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, the coeditor of The Broadview Reader in Book History, and the coauthor of The Broadview Introduction to Book History.

"Winner of the 2018 Scottish Research Book of the Year, Saltire Society" "Received the Judges' Commendation for the 2018 SHARP DeLong Book History Book Prize, The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing" "Winner of the 2018 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture, Media Ecology Association" "A broad study of material reimaginings of the Romantics, What the Victorians Made of Romanticism not only highlights the interconnected nature of these various objects in reception history-even as the narratives they build are contradictory-but also legitimizes them as spaces for further literary study."---Megan Peiser, Victorian Periodicals Review "What the Victorians Made of Romanticism is a major achievement."---Richard Cronin, BARS Review "What the Victorians Made of Romanticism offers valuable, always fascinating, insights into cultural history."---George P. Landow, Victorian Web "Mole's What the Victorians Made of Romanticism extends the catalogue of recent studies that take seriously the mobility of Romantic writing across generations."---Paul Westover, Studies in Romantacism "Fascinating, erudite, and imaginative . . . this monograph is a rich new reception history for an interdisciplinary age."---Natalie Reeve, Wilkie Collins Journal