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The queer bookishness of romanticism : ornamental community
- Title
- The queer bookishness of romanticism : ornamental community / Michael E. Robinson.
- Author
- Robinson, Michael Edward
- Publication
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- x, 233 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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 period, and what role has book collecting played in the history of queer phobia? The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism: Ornamental Community addresses such questions about the bookish dimension of Romanticism and its Victorian aftermath. The analysis focuses on the bookish proclivities of the Ladies of Llangollen, the "ornamental gentlemen" and bibliographer Thomas F. Dibdin, the essayist Charles Lamb, and the Victorian forgers Thomas J. Wise and Harry Buxton Forman. In the process, this book uncovers surprising connections between literature and sexuality, bookishness and queerness, and forgery and sexuality."--Back cover.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Romanticism > England
- Book collecting > England > History > 19th century
- Book collectors > England > History > 19th century
- Gay people > England > History > 19th century
- Sexual minority community > England
- Sexual minority culture > England
- Gay people
- Book collectors
- Book collecting
- Romanticism
- Sexual minority community
- Sexual minority culture
- England
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Romantic bookishness -- Collecting the Ladies of Llangollen -- Thomas F. Dibdin's club for ornamental gentlemen -- The punk antiquarianism of Charles Lamb -- Harry Buxton Forman and Thomas J. Wise, a curious pair of bookmen.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-6258
- ISBN
- 9781793607935
- 1793607931
- OCLC
- 1230532338
- Author
- Robinson, Michael Edward, author.
- Title
- The queer bookishness of romanticism : ornamental community / Michael E. Robinson.
- Publisher
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781793607942
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-6258