Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
