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The Limits of Familiarity TRANSITS: LITERATURE, THOUGHT & CULTURE, 1650–1850 Series Editors Kathryn Parker, University of Wisconsin—La Crosse Miriam Wallace, New College of Florida A long running and landmark series in long-eighteenth-century studies, Transits includes monographs and edited volumes that are timely, transformative in their approach, and global in their engagement with arts, literature, culture, and history. Books in the series have engaged with visual arts, environment, politics, material culture, travel, theater and performance, embodiment, writing and book history, sexuality, gender, disability, race, and colonialism from Britain and Europe to the Americas, the Far East, and the Middle East. Proposals should offer critical examination of artifacts and events, modes of being and forms of knowledge, material culture, or cultural practices. Works that make provocative connections across time, space, geography, or intellectual history, or that develop new modes of critical imagining are particularly welcome. Recent titles in the Transits series: The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers Lindsey Eckert “Robinson Crusoe” after 300 Years Andreas K. E. Mueller and Glynis Ridley, eds. Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688–1843 Misty Krueger, ed. Laurence Sterne’s “A Sentimental Journey”: A Legacy to the World W. B. Gerard and M-C. Newbould, eds. Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment Kevin L. Cope, ed. Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media Jakub Lipski, ed. Narrative Mourning: Death and Its Relics in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel Kathleen M. Oliver Lothario’s Corpse: Libertine Drama and the Long-Running Restoration, 1700–1832 Daniel Gustafson For a full list of Transits titles, please visit our website: www.bucknelluniversitypress.org. The Limits of Familiarity AUTHORSHIP AND ROMANTIC READERS LINDSEY ECKERT LEWISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Eckert, Lindsey, author. Title: The limits of familiarity : authorship and Romantic readers / Lindsey Eckert. Description: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 2022. | Series: Transits: literature, thought & culture 1650–1850 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021039294 | ISBN 9781684483907 (paperback) | ISBN 9781684483914 (hardback) | ISBN 9781684483921 (epub) | ISBN 9781684483938 (mobi) | ISBN 9781684483945 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Romanticism—England. | Authors and readers— Great Britain—History—18th century. | Fame—Social aspects— Great Britain—History—18th century. | Books and reading— Great Britain—History—18th century. Classification: LCC PR457 .E25 2022 | DDC 820.9/145—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021039294 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. Copyright © 2022 by Lindsey Eckert All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Bucknell University Press, Hildreth-Mirza Hall, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837-2005. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. References to internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor Bucknell University Press is respon- sible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manu- script was prepared. The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. www.bucknelluniversitypress.org Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press Manufactured in the United States of America For my brother Scott It is not easy to write a familiar style. —William Hazlitt, “On Familiar Style” CONTENTS List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xvii Introduction: Familiarity’s “due bounds” 1 1 Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, and the Problems of Reading Familiarity 27 2 “Though a stranger to you”: Byron’s Poetics of Familiarity and Readerly Attachment 51 3 Lady Caroline Lamb’s Female Follies and the Dangers of Familiarity 78 4 “the whole cursed story”: William Hazlitt’s Familiar Style 105 5 Mediating a Manuscript Ethos: Familiarity in Albums and Literary Annuals 130 Coda: Lifting “the film of familiarity” 160 Notes 167 Bibliography 209 Index 227 [ ix ]
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