Re-evaluating the Literary Coterie, 1580–1830

From Sidney to Blackwood's

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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This book is about the literary and friendship networks that were active in Britain for a 250 year period. Patterns in the nature of literary social circles emerge: they may centre upon a location, like Christ Church, or a person, like Aaron Hill; they may suffer stress when private relationships become public knowledge, as Caroline Lamb’s Glenarvon shows; and they may model themselves on a preceding age, as the relationship between the Sidney circle and Lady Mary Wroth exemplifies. Despite these similarities, no two coteries are the same. The circles this volume examines even differ in their acceptance of their own status as a coterie: someone like Constance Fowler was certainly part of a strict familial coterie; the Scriberlians were a more informal set who were also members of other groups; and although Byron’s years of fame are regularly associated with Holland House, he often denied being of their party.With an Afterword by Helen Hackett

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Utgivningsdatum2016-12-05
Mått148 x 210 x 22 mm
Vikt472 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor241
Upplaga16001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137545527

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Will Bowers is Junior Research Fellow in English at the University of Oxford, UK. His research interests include Romantic poetry; the idea of a cosmopolitan London; the trial of Queen Caroline; and English perceptions of Italy and Italians. He has published on these topics in international journals and is an assistant editor on the 'Longman Annotated English Poets' edition of The Poems of Shelley.Hannah Leah Crummé is Head of Special Collections at Watzek Library, Lewis and Clark College, USA. Her research focuses on the political impact of the Sidney-Herbert-Dudley network. She has published broadly across her field and curated the exhibition ‘By me William Shakespeare’, which recently opened in Somerset House, London, UK.

Introduction; Will Bowers and Hannah Leah Crummé.- 1. Literary Coteries of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembrokeand William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke; Mary Ellen Lamb.- 2. The Circulation of Verse at the Inns of Court and in London in Early Stuart England; Arthur Marotti.- 3. Maecenas and Oxford-Witts:Pedagogy and Flattery in Seventeenth-Century Oxford; Christopher Burlinson.- 4. ‘If I had known him, I would have loved him.’ Bloomsbury appropriations of the Scriblerian coterie; Abigail Williams and Peter Huhne.- 5. The Hillarian Circle: Scorpions, sexual politics and heterosocial coteries; Christine Gerrard.- 6. Edmund Spenser and Coterie Culture, 1774–1790; Hazel Wilkinson.- 7. Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the forging of the Romantic literary coterie; Felicity James.- 8. The Many Rooms of Holland House; Will Bowers.- 9. Aggressive Intimacy: Mass Markets and the Blackwood’s Magazine Coterie; Robert Morrison.- Afterword; Helen Hackett.- Bibliography.- Index.-