Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle [Hardcover]

Tennyson experienced at first hand the all-pervasive nature of celebrity culture. It caused him to retreat from the eyes of the world. This book delineates Tennyson's reluctant celebrity and its effects on his writings, on his coterie of famous and notable friends and on the ever-expanding, media-led circle of Tennyson's admirers.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. At Home with Tennyson: Virtual Literary Tourism and the Commodification of Celebrity in the Periodical Press 2. 'This is the sort of fame for which I have given my life': G. F. Watts, Edward Lear and Portraits of Fame and Nonsense 3. 'She Shall be Made Immortal': Julia Margaret Cameron's Photography and the Construction of Celebrity 4. Personal Museums: the Fan Diaries of Lewis Carroll and William Allingham 5. 'Troops of unrecording friends': Vicarious Celebrity in the Memoir 6. 'Much honour and much fame were lost': Idylls of the King and Camelot's Celebrity Circle Bibliography Index

[The authors'] engaging and attentive close readings of different media ally them to the methods of new formalism . Clara Dawson, The Tennyson Society

Charlotte Boyce is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She has published essays on Victorian cookery books and Victorian representations of hunger and famine, and is currently co-writing A History of Food in Literature.

P?raic Finnerty is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the author of Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare (2006) and of the forthcoming Dickinson and her British Contemporaries.

Anne-Marie Millim gained her PhD in Victorian Literature from the University of Glasgow in 2009. She was involved in the University of Portsmouth's project 'Tennyson's Celebrity Circle', then received a two-year postdoctoral research grant by the Luxembourg National Research Fund and is now principal investigator of an FNR-funded three-l³L