- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- I The Reading World
- 1 Back to the Future: Authors at the Movies
- 2 Consenting and Dissenting Bibliophiles in Public and Private
- 3 Literary Advice and Advisers
- 4 Reviews and Reviewers
- 5 The Great Tradition
- 6 The Commemoration Movement
- 7 English Literature’s Foreign Relations; or, ‘’E dunno où il est!’*
- II Writers and the Public: the Price of Fame
- 8 Product Advertising and Self-Advertising
- 9 The Star Turn
- 10 Playing the Press: Entry and Exposure
- 11 Securing the Future
- 12 Titles and Laurels
- 13 Social Prestige and Clubbability
- 14 The Aristocratic Round and Salon Circle
- 15 Looking and Acting the Part
- 16 Lecture Tours
- 17 Literary Properties and Agencies
- III Best-sellers
- 18 Market Conditions
- 19 In Cupid’s Chains: Charles Garvice
- 20 Hymns and Heroines: Florence Barclay
- 21 The Epic Ego: Hall Caine
- 22 The Demonic Dreamer: Marie Corelli
- 23 Authors at Play: Nat Gould Leads the Field
- IV Writers and the Public: Penmen as Pundits
- 24 The Campaign Trail
- 25 Public Service and Party Politics
- 26 Pens at War
- 27 Pricking Censorship
- 28 Theology versus Sociology and Psychology
- Bibliography
- Index of Book, Essay, Pamphlet, Play, Poem and Short Story Titles
- General Index
The Commemoration Movement
The Commemoration Movement
- Chapter:
- (p.232) 6 The Commemoration Movement
- Source:
- Writers, Readers, and Reputations
- Author(s):
Philip Waller (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter examines why this period saw the establishment of so many memorials in honour of particular writers, together with societies designed to promote the study of their work and to advance their reputations. It begins by considering how and why Rupert Brooke was elevated to iconic status during the Great War; then Victorian and Edwardian centenary commemorations of Robert Burns and Shakespeare are analysed, along with anniversaries relating to a host of other writers such as Byron, Keats, and Shelley, Dr Johnson, Christopher Marlowe, John Milton, Robert Browning, and Thackeray. Edmund Gosse and Robertson Nicoll were protagonists in several of these movements, which were seized on by publishers to market special editions and collected works; but there were many differences of opinion over how best to commemorate this or that writer, and these are pinpointed and explained.
Keywords: shakespeare, burns, commemorations, rupert Brooke, special editions, collected works
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- I The Reading World
- 1 Back to the Future: Authors at the Movies
- 2 Consenting and Dissenting Bibliophiles in Public and Private
- 3 Literary Advice and Advisers
- 4 Reviews and Reviewers
- 5 The Great Tradition
- 6 The Commemoration Movement
- 7 English Literature’s Foreign Relations; or, ‘’E dunno où il est!’*
- II Writers and the Public: the Price of Fame
- 8 Product Advertising and Self-Advertising
- 9 The Star Turn
- 10 Playing the Press: Entry and Exposure
- 11 Securing the Future
- 12 Titles and Laurels
- 13 Social Prestige and Clubbability
- 14 The Aristocratic Round and Salon Circle
- 15 Looking and Acting the Part
- 16 Lecture Tours
- 17 Literary Properties and Agencies
- III Best-sellers
- 18 Market Conditions
- 19 In Cupid’s Chains: Charles Garvice
- 20 Hymns and Heroines: Florence Barclay
- 21 The Epic Ego: Hall Caine
- 22 The Demonic Dreamer: Marie Corelli
- 23 Authors at Play: Nat Gould Leads the Field
- IV Writers and the Public: Penmen as Pundits
- 24 The Campaign Trail
- 25 Public Service and Party Politics
- 26 Pens at War
- 27 Pricking Censorship
- 28 Theology versus Sociology and Psychology
- Bibliography
- Index of Book, Essay, Pamphlet, Play, Poem and Short Story Titles
- General Index
