While artistically ambitious poets of the era are often characterized as preferring a lasting future fame to contemporary popularity, this book reveals that a sophisticated, strategic and fascinated engagement with new modes of fame was central to the experiments with literary form of poets such as Byron, Keats, Shelley and Barrett Browning.

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ERIC EISNER is Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, USA, where he teaches courses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, Romanticism, literary theory and cultural studies.

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Acknowledgements Introduction Systems of Literary Lionism Keats, Lyric and Personality The Cenci 's Celebrity Shelley's Glamour The Atmosphere of Authorship: Landon, Byron and Literary Culture Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Energies of Fandom Notes Index