BOOK

Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle

Boyce, Charlotte, Finnerty, Pâaraic, 1974-, Millim, Anne-Marie

2013

Overview

\"By 1850, Alfred Tennyson was not merely the Poet Laureate, a commercially successful and critically acclaimed author, he was one of Britain's leading celebrities. Offering new analysis of the workings of Victorian celebrity, this volume explores the ever-expanding compass of Tennyson's fame and the efforts of the poet and others to control this phenomenon. It shows that Tennyson's retreat from mainland publicity to the secluded Isle of Wight and his limiting of his social circle to that of family and like-minded guests, only increased the demand of fans and tourists for access to the poet. Through an analysis of poetry, paintings, photography, illustrations, memoirs, reminiscences, diaries, letters, and newspaper and periodical articles, this book shows that Tennyson's fashioning of his reluctant celebrity affected not only his own life and works, but also had an effect on his celebrity and non-celebrity friends, and on the (self-)construction of his fans. \"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 Friends and associates. / Fame Social aspects Great Britain History 19th century. / Authors and readers Great Britain History 19th century. / LITERARY CRITICISM - European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. / LITERARY CRITICISM - Poetry. / England Intellectual life 19th century.
• ISBN: 9781137007933, 1137007931

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR5583.B6 2013	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE