Re-evaluating the Literary Coterie, 1580–1830
Bowers, Will / Crummé, Hannah Leah
This book is about the literary and friendship networks that were active in Britain for a 250- year period. Patterns in the nature of literary social circles emerge: they may centre upon a location, like Christ Church, or a person, like Aaron Hill, they may suffer stress when private relationships become public knowledge, as Caroline Lamb’s Glenarvon shows, and they may model themselves on a preceding age, as the relationship between the Sidne...