New publication:
Byron’s Romantic
Celebrity
Industrial Culture
and the Hermeneutic of Intimacy
Tom Mole
July 2007 138mm x 216mm
£45 (half price to
BARS members until 31/10/07)
1−4039−9993−7
248 Pages Hardback
'This superb book provides an adroit analysis of the ways
that a
specifically Romantic celebrity culture informs Byron’s oeuvre
− from
the 'Frame Bill' ode to Don Juan. Yet it does much more than
that. In fact,
Mole manages to recontextualize the entire concept of
Romantic fame as
a complex interplay between industrial print culture,
historical
individuals, and the readerly paradigms of the era. It is
this broader lens
that enables the book to shine new light on such issues as
Romantic
subjectivity, authorship, visual iconography, and the nineteenth−century
dialectic between public and private.' − Professor Michael
Macovski,
Byron's Romantic Celebrity offers a new history and theory of modern
celebrity. It argues
that celebrity is a cultural apparatus that emerged in
response to the
Romantic industrialization of print culture and that Lord
Byron should be
understood as one of its earliest examples and most astute
critics. Under that
rubric, it investigates the often strained interactions of
artistic endeavour
and commercial enterprise, the material conditions of
Byron's publications,
and the place of celebrity culture in history of the self.
List of Figures and
Tables − Preface − Acknowledgements − Abbreviated
Titles − Romantic
Celebrity − 'An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill': The
Embarrassment of
Industrial Culture − Childe Harold's Pilgrimage:
Beginning
the Hermeneutic of
Intimacy − Scopophilia and Somatic Inscription in Byron's
Verse Tales − The
Visual Discourse of Byron's Celebrity − The Handling of
Hebrew Melodies − Childe Harold Canto Three:
Rewriting
Juan:
Celebrity and the Subject of Modernity − Envoi −
Bibliography − Index
TOM MOLE is Assistant
Professor of English at
is the editor of a
volume of Blackwood's Magazine 1817−1825 (2006)
and has
published articles in
Romanticism, the Keats−Shelley Journal, the Byron
Journal and
Nineteenth−Century
Contexts.
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