TY - BOOK AU - Mole,Tom TI - What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History SN - 9780691175362 U1 - 820.9007 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century KW - bisacsh KW - Algernon Charles Swinburne KW - Anecdote KW - Anthology KW - Atheism KW - Author KW - Benjamin Disraeli KW - Biography KW - Book design KW - Calton Hill KW - Cambridge University Press KW - Charles Dickens KW - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage KW - Christianity KW - Clergy KW - Edition (book) KW - Embellishment KW - English literature KW - English poetry KW - Engraving KW - Felicia Hemans KW - First appearance KW - Franco Moretti KW - Frank Kermode KW - George Eliot KW - God KW - Guide to the Lakes KW - Handbook KW - Harriet Beecher Stowe KW - Hebrew Melodies KW - Henry Chorley KW - Illustration KW - Illustrator KW - Jerome McGann KW - John Ruskin KW - Lecture KW - Literary criticism KW - Literature KW - Long poem KW - Lord Byron KW - Mary Shelley KW - Matthew Arnold KW - Modernity KW - Narrative KW - National Library of Scotland KW - New Generation (Malayalam film movement) KW - New Historicism KW - New media KW - Newspaper KW - Novel KW - Paratext KW - Percy Bysshe Shelley KW - Photography KW - Poet KW - Poetry KW - Poets' Corner KW - Postcard KW - Preface KW - Princes Street Gardens KW - Princeton University Press KW - Print culture KW - Printing KW - Printmaking KW - Prometheus Unbound (Aeschylus) KW - Prose KW - Publication KW - Publishing KW - Queen Mab KW - Religion KW - Reprint KW - Romantic poetry KW - Romanticism KW - Scott Monument KW - Scott's (restaurant) KW - Secularization KW - Sensibility KW - Sermon KW - She Walks in Beauty KW - Special collections KW - Stanza KW - Stephen Greenblatt KW - Subjectivity KW - Supporter KW - T. S. Eliot KW - The Anthologist KW - The Aspern Papers KW - The Destruction of Sennacherib KW - The Giaour KW - The Lay of the Last Minstrel KW - The Other Hand KW - The Pencil of Nature KW - Theology KW - Troilus and Criseyde KW - Victorian era KW - Wai Chee Dimock KW - Walter Benjamin KW - William Michael Rossetti KW - William Shakespeare KW - William Wordsworth KW - Writer KW - Writing N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations & Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Don Juan in the Pub --; PART I. THE WEB OF RECEPTION --; Romantic Writers in the Victorian Media Ecology --; Reception Traditions and Punctual Historicism --; Minding the Generation Gap --; PART II. ILLUSTRATIONS --; Illustration as Renovation --; Renovating Romantic Poetry: Retrofitted Illustrations --; Turning the Page: Illustrated Frontmatter --; PART III. SERMONS --; A Religious Reception Tradition --; Converting Shelley --; Spurgeon, Byron, and the Contingencies of Mediation --; PART IV. STATUES --; Secular Pantheons for the Reformed Nation: Byron in Cambridge --; The Distributed Pantheon: Scott in Edinburgh --; The Networked Pantheon: Byron in London --; PART V. ANTHOLOGIES --; Scattered Odes in Shattered Books: Quantifying Victorian Anthologies --; Romantic Short Poems in Victorian Anthologies --; Romantic Long Poems in Victorian Anthologies --; Coda: Ozymandias at the Olympics; or, She Walks in Brixton --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 recent criticism and the narrow horizons of previous reception histories. He attends instead to the material artifacts and cultural practices that remediated Romantic writers and their works amid shifting understandings of history, memory, and media.Mole scrutinizes Victorian efforts to canonize and commodify Romantic writers in a changed media ecology. He shows how illustrated books renovated Romantic writing, how preachers incorporated irreligious Romantics into their sermons, how new statues and memorials integrated Romantic writers into an emerging national pantheon, and how anthologies mediated their works to new generations. This ambitious study investigates a wide range of material objects Victorians made in response to Romantic writing—such as photographs, postcards, books, and collectibles—that in turn remade the public’s understanding of Romantic writers.Shedding new light on how Romantic authors were posthumously recruited to address later cultural concerns, What the Victorians Made of Romanticism reveals new histories of appropriation, remediation, and renewal that resonate in our own moment of media change, when once again the cultural products of the past seem in danger of being forgotten if they are not reimagined for new audiences UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400887897?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400887897 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400887897/original ER -