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The central argument of this detailed reading of Landon’s editorship of Fisher’s Drawing Room Scrap Book of 1832 turns on the technology of the (capitalist) steel plate and its composition through the accumulation of lines rather than through mimetic techniques. I suggest that Landon foregoes the mimetic contract in favour of a metonymic contract of juxtaposition deriving from her decision to prioritize the poetic line and the second-order poetics of stereotype and cliché (both terms of print technology). She employs a technique of adjacency and a continual play on the meaning of the line in order to set in motion a questioning of British assumptions about trade hegemony and the colonial imaginary that many of the poems invoke. I suggest that this is a genuinely new and original poetics.

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 in the Romantic era, when confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, and gossip columns offered readers exceptional access to well-known authors. But at what point did familiarity become overfamiliarity ? 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 persuasively argues that such concerns shaped literary production in the Romantic period. Bringing together 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 distinction between telling all and telling all too much.

Landon Carter, a wealthy planter in the Tidewater of Virginia during the eighteenth century, kept a diary that possesses great value for scholars of sport history. His writings showcase a wide emotional range, including white-hot rage and bubbling pathos. In his diary, Carter often decried the leisure habits of others, especially his son Robert Wormeley Carter, who constantly gambled on horses and cards. For Landon, if leisure was allowed to run wild, it threatened republican virtue, which was the basis of social authority and political power. Although Carter's diary is limited to the perspective of an elite, white, male planter from Virginia, his worldview was shaped by the assumptions of patriarchy and the institution of slavery. His lamentations about rampant games reflected his worries about his own corroding paternal authority—a private drama amid his larger, public anxieties about a crumbling social order during the era of the American Revolution.

The critical conversation regarding the poetic achievement of Letitia Landon has been deformed by the influence of posthumous editions that remake and misrepresent her work. Emma Roberts’s edition of The Zenana and Minor Poems of L.E.L. (1839) and Leman Blanchard’s Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L. (1841) have too often been taken by Landon scholars as reliable sources, yet both occlude and alter her poems in serious ways. Landon herself creatively recycled earlier work: much of her originality depends on her manipulation of its changing media contexts. Thinking coherently about Landon’s poetry requires an extensive acquaintance with her textual history.

UK ports handle the vast majority of national trade by volume and constitute Critical National Infrastructure. Since 2004, the SOLAS/ISPS Code and the Port Security Regulations 2009 have established baseline security requirements, recently supplemented by the National Security and Investment Act 2021 and the National Security Act 2023, creating overlapping obligations. This contribution maps the evolving regulatory framework (ISPS/Port Security Regulations, NSI 2021, NSA 2023, and CNI-related guidance). It assesses operational impacts using industry metrics and draws comparative lessons from Singapore and Rotterdam. Empirical research indicates that security regulation is not uniformly detrimental to performance: targeted, intelligence-led, and technology-enabled measures can coincide with productivity gains, whereas fragmented or blanket compliance regimes are more consistently associated with increased dwell times and throughput loss. These delays propagate through supply chains and intensify cost pressures, with proportionally greater impacts on mid-sized ports. Comparative evidence indicates that risk-based screening, integrated cyber–physical platforms, transparent governance, and clear cost-sharing frameworks can maintain security without compromising commercial performance. The contribution recommends (i) tiered, risk-based screening with transparent indicators; (ii) the consolidation of overlapping regulatory obligations; (iii) clearer liability frameworks, including model terms and alternative dispute resolution; and (iv) scheduled review provisions to maintain proportionality over time.