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The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism - Ornamental Community (Hardcover)
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The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism - Ornamental Community (Hardcover)
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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
Romantic period, and what role has book collecting played in the
history of homophobia? The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism:
Ornamental Community addresses these and more questions about the
suppressed bookish dimension of Romanticism, as well as
Romanticism's historical forebears and Victorian inheritors. The
analysis ranges widely, addressing the bookish proclivities of the
"romantic friends" the Ladies of Llangollen, the camp works about
book collecting produced by a subculture calling themselves
"ornamental gentlemen," narratives of prototypically punk
collecting and flaneuring by the essayist and collector Charles
Lamb, and rare-book forgeries by Thomas J. Wise and Harry Forman,
queer bibliographer-scholars responsible for canonizing some of the
Romantic poets during the Victorian period. In the process, this
book uncovers surprising connections between conceptions of
literature and sexuality; literary materiality and queerness; and
forgery, sexuality, and authorship.
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