1st Edition
Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals Commodities in Context
By Kathryn Ledbetter
Copyright 2007
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the first book-length study of Tennyson's record of publication in Victorian periodicals. Despite Tennyson's supposed hostility to periodicals, Ledbetter shows that he made a career-long habit of contributing to them and in the process revealed not only his willingness to promote his career but also his status as a highly valued commodity. Tennyson published more than sixty poems in serial... Read more
Those 'vapid' gift books. Resistance and commodification: 'indecent exposure' in the periodicals. War scares and patriot-soldiers: political poetry. 'God Save the Queen': laureatic responses. Transatlantic connections.
Biography
Kathryn Ledbetter is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, San Marcos, USA. She and Terence Hoagwood are co-authors of "Colour'd Shadows": Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers (2005).
Winner of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals' 2007 Robert Colby Book Prize ’... sheds new light on the mechanics of literary celebrity in the nineteenth century. ...That so many rich new areas of study are suggested by this book testifies to its wide-ranging and engaging research, and its several appendices will be of great use to future bibliographers and scholars.’ Times Literary Supplement ’What is accomplished here is well edited, accompanied by three useful appendices, and generously illustrated... this study deserves praise for its accuracy in dealing with a literary career spanning two-thirds of a century.’ Journal of British Studies
