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This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the reputations of Romantic writers. Tom Mole provides a new reception history of Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth-one that moves beyond the punctual historicism of much recent criticism and the narrow horizons of previous reception histories. He attends instead to the material artifacts and cultural practices that remediated Romantic writers and their works amid shifting understandings of history, memory, and media.Mole scrutinizes Victorian efforts to canonize and commodify Romantic writers in a changed media ecology. He shows how illustrated books renovated Romantic writing, how preachers incorporated irreligious Romantics into their sermons, how new statues and memorials integrated Romantic writers into an emerging national pantheon, and how anthologies mediated their works to new generations. This ambitious study investigates a wide range of material objects Victorians made in response to Romantic writing-such as photographs, postcards, books, and collectibles-that in turn remade the public's understanding of Romantic writers.Shedding new light on how Romantic authors were posthumously recruited to address later cultural concerns, What the Victorians Made of Romanticism reveals new histories of appropriation, remediation, and renewal that resonate in our own moment of media change, when once again the cultural products of the past seem in danger of being forgotten if they are not reimagined for new audiences.

Romanticism --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Algernon Charles Swinburne. --- Anecdote. --- Anthology. --- Atheism. --- Author. --- Benjamin Disraeli. --- Biography. --- Book design. --- Calton Hill. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Charles Dickens. --- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. --- Christianity. --- Clergy. --- Edition (book). --- Embellishment. --- English literature. --- English poetry. --- Engraving. --- Felicia Hemans. --- First appearance. --- Franco Moretti. --- Frank Kermode. --- George Eliot. --- God. --- Guide to the Lakes. --- Handbook. --- Harriet Beecher Stowe. --- Hebrew Melodies. --- Henry Chorley. --- Illustration. --- Illustrator. --- Jerome McGann. --- John Ruskin. --- Lecture. --- Literary criticism. --- Literature. --- Long poem. --- Lord Byron. --- Mary Shelley. --- Matthew Arnold. --- Modernity. --- Narrative. --- National Library of Scotland. --- New Generation (Malayalam film movement). --- New Historicism. --- New media. --- Newspaper. --- Novel. --- Paratext. --- Percy Bysshe Shelley. --- Photography. --- Poet. --- Poetry. --- Poets' Corner. --- Postcard. --- Preface. --- Princes Street Gardens. --- Princeton University Press. --- Print culture. --- Printing. --- Printmaking. --- Prometheus Unbound (Aeschylus). --- Prose. --- Publication. --- Publishing. --- Queen Mab. --- Religion. --- Reprint. --- Romantic poetry. --- Romanticism. --- Scott Monument. --- Scott's (restaurant). --- Secularization. --- Sensibility. --- Sermon. --- She Walks in Beauty. --- Special collections. --- Stanza. --- Stephen Greenblatt. --- Subjectivity. --- Supporter. --- T. S. Eliot. --- The Anthologist. --- The Aspern Papers. --- The Destruction of Sennacherib. --- The Giaour. --- The Lay of the Last Minstrel. --- The Other Hand. --- The Pencil of Nature. --- Theology. --- Troilus and Criseyde. --- Victorian era. --- Wai Chee Dimock. --- Walter Benjamin. --- William Michael Rossetti. --- William Shakespeare. --- William Wordsworth. --- Writer. --- Writing.