This book makes the case for a re-placing of Lamb as reader, writer and friend in the midst of the lively political and literary scene of the 1790s. Reading his little-known early works alongside others by the likes of Coleridge and Wordsworth, it allows a revealing insight into the creative dynamics of early Romanticism.
Table of Content
List of Abbreviations Introduction: Placing Lamb PART I: IDEALISING FRIENDSHIP ‘Frendotatoi meta frendous’: Constructing Friendship in the 1790s Rewritings of Friendship, 1796-1797 PART II: DOUBTING FRIENDSHIP The ‘Day of Horrors’, 1796 ‘Cold, cold, cold’: Loneliness and Reproach Blank Verse and Fears in Solitude PART III: RECONSTRUCTING FRIENDSHIP A Text of Friendship: Rosamund Gray Sympathy, Allusion and Experiment in John Woodvil The Urban Romantic: Lamb’s Landscapes of Affection Index
About the author
FELICITY JAMES is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK, where she completed a doctorate on Charles Lamb. She is currently working on a project exploring Unitarian networks of readers and writers.
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