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'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.
Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture 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 differently 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? This
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 Album Verses and Romantic Literary
Culture shows, album poetry reflects changing attitudes to
identity, gender, class, politics, poetry, family dynamics, and
social relations in the Romantic period.
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