Intertextual Sociability in VictorianLivesof the Romantic Poets: Thomas De Quincey’s ‘Lake Reminiscences’ and Edward John Trelawny’sRecollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron
Abstract:Intertextual Sociability in Victorian Lives of the Romantic Poets: Thomas De Quincey's 'Lake Reminiscences' and Edward John Trelawny's Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron. This essay explores the ways in which literary biographers have made intertextual allusions to the work of their subjects a means of reconstituting lost personal and creative relationships. Thomas De Quincey's 'Lake Reminiscences' (1839) and Edward Trelawny's Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (1858; revised … Show more
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