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

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Oct 17, 2017
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2018
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28 halftones. 2 line illus. 4 tables. 2 maps.
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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鈥攐ne 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鈥攕uch as photographs, postcards, books, and collectibles鈥攖hat in turn remade the public鈥檚 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.

Awards and Recognition

  • Winner of the 2018 Scottish Research Book of the Year, Saltire Society
  • Received the Judges鈥� 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