In "Romantic Interactions, " Susan J. Wolfson examines how
interaction with other authors--whether on the bookshelf, in the
embodied company of someone else writing, or in relation to
literary celebrity--shaped the work of some of the best-known (and
less well-known) writers in the English language.
Working across the arc of Long Romanticism, from the 1780s to
the 1840s, this lively study involves writing by women and men, in
poetry and prose. Combining careful readings with sophisticated
literary, historical, and cultural criticism, Wolfson reveals how
various writers came to define themselves as "author." The story
unfolds not only in deft textual analyses but also by provocatively
placing writers in dialogue with what they were reading, with one
another, and with the community of readers (and writers) their
writings helped bring into being: Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte
Smith in the Revolution-roiled 1790s; William Wordsworth and
Dorothy Wordsworth in the society of the Lake District; Lord Byron,
a magnet for writers everywhere, inspired, troubled, but always
arrested by what he (and his scandal-ridden celebrity)
represented.
This fresh, informative account of key writers, important texts,
and complex cultural currents promises keen interest for students
and scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians.
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