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A riveting and major work. England's First Family of Writers witnesses the rare mix of creativity and philosophical rigor that Carlson brings to scholarly writing and thinking about Romanticism and the larger set of relations between living and writing in public culture. -- Theresa M. Kelley, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Family, Writing, Public
Part I: Revising Family
1. Making Public Love
2. Forms of Attachment
3. Family Relations
Part II: Life Works
4. Fancy's History
5. Living Off and On: The Literary Work of Mourning
6. A Juvenile Library; or, Works of a New Species
Epilogue: On Percy's Case
Primary Works and Abbreviations
Notes
Index

About the Author

Julie A. Carlson is a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Reviews

Carlson's attention to the ways books have their own family connections is perceptive and convincingly argued. Most important, she offers extended and sophisticated readings of many of the neglected works in the oeuvres of all three authors. Choice [Carlson's] book will continue making, for many years to come, its signal contribution to our understanding not only of this very talented, impassioned, tormented, and utterly original family of novelists, philosophers, critics, and historians, but to our reading of the history of the family, and of literature, in general. -- Charles J. Rzepka Wordsworth Circle Full of acute and lucid observations. -- Jacqueline Pearson Modern Language Review