Michael E. Robinson

The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism (eBook, PDF)

Ornamental Community

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How did the buying and collecting of books figure in the lives and works of the Romantics, those supposed apostles of spiritualized poetic genius? Why was book collecting controversial during the Romantic period, and what role has book collecting played in the history of homophobia? The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism: Ornamental Community addresses these and more questions about the suppressed bookish dimension of Romanticism, as well as Romanticism's historical forebears and Victorian inheritors. The analysis ranges widely, addressing the bookish proclivities of the "romantic friends" the Ladies of Llangollen, the camp works about book collecting produced by a subculture calling themselves "ornamental gentlemen," narratives of prototypically punk collecting and flâneuring by the essayist and collector Charles Lamb, and rare-book forgeries by Thomas J. Wise and Harry Forman, queer bibliographer-scholars responsible for canonizing some of the Romantic poets during the Victorian period. In the process, this book uncovers surprising connections between conceptions of literature and sexuality; literary materiality and queerness; and forgery, sexuality, and authorship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978774735
• Artikelnr.: 74847455

Autorenporträt

Michael Robinson is lecturer in the writing and rhetoric department at the University of Rhode Island.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Romantic Bookishness
Chapter 1: Collecting the Ladies of Llangollen
Chapter 2: Thomas F. Dibdin's Club for Ornamental Gentlemen
Chapter 3: Antiquarian Coolness: The Punk Antiquarianism of Charles Lamb
Chapter 4: A Curious Pair of Bookmen
Bibliography