Victorian Keats and Romantic Carlyle

Barfoot, C. C.

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“…There has been important work on late Romanticism and early Victorianism as a moment of transition (Cronin, 2002; de Groote, 2022) as well as on the afterlives of Romantic writers in the Victorian era (Elfenbein, 1995; Gill, 2001). New attention has been drawn to the extended careers of figures such as Henry Crabb Robinson and Thomas Carlyle, who—like Trelawny—were at home in both periods (Barfoot, 1999). Other scholars—among them Andrew Radford and Mark Sandy (2008) and, in particular, Tom Mole (2017)—have highlighted the extent to which ‘Romanticism’ itself only became visible as a coherent cultural formation as the result of a Victorian (re)construction, a process in which the preservation, collection, and interpretation of material objects played a key role.…”

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Romantic objects, Victorian collections: Scribal relics and the authorial body

Sommer

2023

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Over the course of the nineteenth century, literary manuscripts came to be seen as tangible evidence of the creative process and as a key to the personality of the author. The material traces of writing were understood to outlive their creators and promise to resurrect the authorial body through the magic of the relic. This article reconstructs how authorial script gradually transformed into a collectible object pursued as a memento and a commodity. Letters, drafts, and fair copies by major modern writers found their way into the collections of British aristocrats and American industrialists at the same time that hunting for literary autographs diversified into a middle‐class pursuit. Surveying recent scholarship on nineteenth‐century collecting and material culture, the essay offers a condensed cultural history of the literary manuscript as a collectible and draws attention to how collectors and collecting feature in fictional texts of the period. It focuses on the artefactual mobility and custodial afterlives of Romantic papers in Victorian literature and culture, exploring a form of collecting which crossed boundaries between periods and national literary traditions.

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Romantic objects, Victorian collections: Scribal relics and the authorial body

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2023

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Thomas Hardy and Animals

West

2017

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Thomas Hardy and Animals examines the human and nonhuman animals who walk and crawl and fly across and around the pages of Hardy's novels. Animals abound in his writings, yet little scholarly attention has been paid to them so far. This book fills this gap in Hardy studies, bringing an important author within range of a new and developing area of critical inquiry. It considers the way Hardy's representations of animals challenged ideas of human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities. In moments of encounter between humans and animals, Hardy questions boundaries based on ideas of moral sense or moral agency, language and reason, the possession of a face, and the capacity to suffer and perceive pain. Through an emphasis on embodied encounters, his writings call for an extension of empathy to others, human or nonhuman. In this accessible book Anna West offers a new approach to Hardy criticism.

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‘The Newest Culte’: Victorian Poetry and the Literary Societies of the 1880s

Dunstan¹

2019

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s

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Victorian Keats and Romantic Carlyle

Cited by 66 publications

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Romantic objects, Victorian collections: Scribal relics and the authorial body

Romantic objects, Victorian collections: Scribal relics and the authorial body

Thomas Hardy and Animals

‘The Newest Culte’: Victorian Poetry and the Literary Societies of the 1880s

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