{"product_id":"album-verses-and-romantic-literary-culture-poetry-manuscript-print-1780-1850-hardcover","title":"Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture: Poetry, Manuscript, Print, 1780-1850 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSamantha Matthews\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Will you write in my album?' Many Romantic poets were asked this question by women who collected contributions in their manuscript books. Those who obliged included Byron, Scott, Wordsworth, and Lamb, but also Felicia Hemans, Amelia Opie, and Sara Coleridge. \u003cem\u003eAlbum Verses and Romantic Literary Culture\u003c\/em\u003e presents the first critical and cultural history of this forgotten phenomenon. It asks a series of questions. Where did 1820s 'albo-mania' come from, and why was it satirized as a women's 'mania'? What was the relation between visitors' books associated with great institutions and country houses, personal albums belonging to individuals, and the poetry written in both? What caused albums' re-gendering from earlier friendship books kept by male students and gentlemen on the Grand Tour to a 'feminized' practice identified mainly with young women? When albums were central to women's culture, why were so many published album poems by men? How did amateur and professional poets engage\u003cbr\u003edifferently with albums? What does album culture's privileging of 'original poetry' have to say about attitudes towards creativity and poetic practice in the age of print? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume recovers a distinctive subgenre of occasional poetry composed to be read in manuscript, with its own characteristic formal features, conventions, themes, and cultural significance. Unique albums examined include that kept at the Grande Chartreuse, those owned by Regency socialite Lady Sarah Jersey, and those kept by Lake poets' daughters. As \u003cem\u003eAlbum Verses and Romantic Literary Culture \u003c\/em\u003eshows, album poetry reflects changing attitudes to identity, gender, class, politics, poetry, family dynamics, and social relations in the Romantic period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamantha Matthews, \u003cem\u003eSenior Lecturer in English, University of Bristol\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSamantha Matthews is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol. She has wide-ranging interdisciplinary research interests in the literary, visual, and material culture of the long nineteenth century (c. 1780-1920). Her first book, \u003cem\u003ePoetical Remains: Poets' Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2004), considered the productive relations between dead poets and their literal and literary 'remains.' She has a long-standing interest in book history and manuscript culture, particularly the creative possibilities of blank books. She is editing Charles Lamb's poetry for Oxford's new \u003cem\u003eComplete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb\u003c\/em\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 11, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53388696355123,"sku":"9780198857945","price":186.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/B0nSAPCZ4S9780198857945.webp?v=1779483026","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/album-verses-and-romantic-literary-culture-poetry-manuscript-print-1780-1850-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}