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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.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Placing Lamb
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Idealising Friendship
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Doubting Friendship
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Reconstructing Friendship
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Shortlisted for the CCUE Book Prize 2010
'Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth contributes a serious revaluation of Lamb's reputation, and deals comprehensively and deftly with the important field of Romantic friendship and networks in their psychological and political aspects. Often using colourful anecdotes to illuminate more general analysis, Felicity James's book is a mature and elegant work which makes a genuine contribution to Romantic scholarship.' - R. S. White, Professor of English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia
'Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth is a great achievement. It is a paean to the profitable complexity of friendship in a time when talk among friends could potentially result in charges of sedition, or in the mass-production of verse with which we are still familiar.' - John Regan, University of Cambridge
'This outstanding book approaches 'reading friendship in the 1790s' by reading Charles Lamb alongside his friends and fellow-writers... James traces the intertwined friendships and examines their turning points and crises in a series of consistently superb close readings...admirable and inspiring...' - Alison Hickey, Review of English Studies
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth
Book Subtitle: Reading Friendship in the 1790s
Authors: Felicity James
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583269
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-54524-3Published: 02 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36076-5Published: 01 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58326-9Published: 02 September 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 265
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Fiction, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature