Album verses and romantic literary culture : poetry, manuscript, print, 1780-1850 /
Will you write in my album?' Many Romantic poets were asked this question by women who collected contributions in their manuscript books. Those who obliged included Byron, Scott, Wordsworth, and Lamb, but also Felicia Hemans, Amelia Opie, and Sara Coleridge. Album Verses and Romantic Literary C...
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
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2020.
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Table of Contents:
- From 'La Grande Chartreuse' to the British album: sublimity, satire, and ealry album poetics
- Reconstructing the 'Cossey Hall' album: manuscript, print, patronage, and place
- 'Like Her, Fair Book, be thou': Lady Jersey and Regency album culture
- Albo-mania, albo-phobia: satire, gender, and album verses in 1820s print culture
- What's in a name?: kindness to strangers in Charles Lamb's album poetry and poetics
- 'Here you may trace a pigmy hand, / And there a Giant strength': daughters, poet-fathers, and the Wordsworth Circle albums
- Coda: albumean afterlives.
