Charles Lamb As the London Magazine's "Elia" (Studies in British Literature) [Hardcover]

Gerald Monsman (Author), Charles Lamb (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0773465928 | ISBN-13: 978-0773465923 | Publication Date: November 2003

This study examines Charles Lamb's satiric exuberance as an important component of Romantic emotional intensity. His essays comment on poetry of such major romantics as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron, several of whom he knew personally.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 195 pages
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr (November 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0773465928
• ISBN-13: 978-0773465923
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,127,722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars What to Read When You Have a Paper Due on Romantic Literature, January 9, 2006

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This review is from: Charles Lamb As the London Magazine's "Elia" (Studies in British Literature) (Hardcover)

This fresh and exciting critique belongs on the bookshelf of any student who has an interest in nineteenth-century British literature--or an interest in aesthetic-cultural issues. I had to write a paper on the art of Romantic prose and this book saved my sanity. The connections between Lamb's specific essays and those of other artists of his time and earlier periods is its best feature. Lamb was tapped in, clued in, but until now has never been psyched out (unless Monsman's earlier study of Lamb in 1984 was an anticipation). It's the work of an open-minded writer, a "reconceptualization" that spices up a difficult area with compact, free-flowing commentaries. A++ for sure.