Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 521 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780300262490
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: between Eden and fleet -- Chapter 1 The Temple -- Chapter 2 Christ's Hospital -- Chapter 3 East India -- Chapter 4 Salutation and Cat -- Chapter 5 Day of Horrors -- Chapter 6 Unitarian -- Chapter 7 Mention Nothing of Poetry -- Chapter 8 Divine Chit-Chat -- Chapter 9 Nether Stowey -- Chapter 10 Blank Verse -- Chapter 11 Pentonville -- Chapter 12 Frog and Toad -- Chapter 13 Quakers -- Chapter 14 George Dyer -- Chapter 15 Manning -- Chapter 16 Godwin -- Chapter 17 Anatomy of Melancholy -- Chapter 18 Southampton Buildings -- Chapter 19 Flâneur -- Chapter 20 Journalism -- Chapter 21 Bartholomew Fair -- Chapter 22 Mary's Letters -- Chapter 23 Long and Rueful Faces -- Chapter 24 Puns -- Chapter 25 Sweeps and Beggars -- Chapter 26 Shipwreck -- Chapter 27 Hogsflesh -- Chapter 28 Tales from Shakespear -- Chapter 29 Specimens of English Dramatic Poets -- Chapter 30 Mrs. Leicester's School -- Chapter 31 No. 4 Inner Temple Lane -- Chapter 32 The Reflector -- Chapter 33 Mania -- Chapter 34 The Melancholy of Tailors -- Chapter 35 Which Is the Gentleman We Are Going to Lose? -- Chapter 36 Works -- Chapter 37 Fanny -- Chapter 38 The London Magazine -- Chapter 39 Elia Say -- Chapter 40 Magazines Increase and Multiply -- Chapter 41 Emma -- Chapter 42 Imperfect Sympathies -- Chapter 43 Paris -- Chapter 44 Colebrook -- Chapter 45 Retirement -- Chapter 46 Enfield -- Chapter 47 Three Portraits -- Chapter 48 Album Verses -- Chapter 49 "Am" to "Have" -- Chapter 50 His Great and Dear Spirit Haunts Me -- Chapter 51 A Swallow Flying -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Content:
An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his work A pioneer of urban Romanticism, essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834) found inspiration in London's markets, theaters, prostitutes, and bookshops. He prized the city's literary scene, too, where he was a star wit. He counted among his admirers Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His friends valued in his conversation what distinguished his writing style: a highly original blend of irony, whimsy, and melancholy. Eric G. Wilson captures Lamb's strange charm in this meticulously researched and engagingly written biography. He demonstrates how Lamb's humor helped him cope with a life-defining tragedy: in a fit of madness, his sister Mary murdered their mother. Arranging to care for her himself, Lamb saved her from the gallows. Delightful when sane, Mary became Charles's muse, and she collaborated with him on children's books. In exploring Mary's presence in Charles's darkly comical essays, Wilson also shows how Lamb reverberates in today's experimental literature
Note:
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300230802
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wilson, Eric, 1967 - Dream-child New Haven : Yale University Press, 2022 ISBN 9780300230802
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Lamb, Charles 1775-1834
DOI:
10.12987/9780300262490
URL:
https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300262490
Author information:
Wilson, Eric 1967-
