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Tennyson experienced at first hand the all-pervasive nature of celebrity culture. It caused him to retreat from the eyes of the world. This book delineates Tennyson´s reluctant celebrity and its effects on his writings, on his coterie of famous and notable friends and on the ever-expanding, media-led circle of Tennyson´s admirers.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. At Home with Tennyson: Virtual Literary Tourism and the Commodification of Celebrity in the Periodical Press 2. ´This is the sort of fame for which I have given my life´: G. F. Watts, Edward Lear and Portraits of Fame and Nonsense 3. ´She Shall be Made Immortal´: Julia Margaret Cameron´s Photography and the Construction of Celebrity 4. Personal Museums: the Fan Diaries of Lewis Carroll and William Allingham 5. ´Troops of unrecording friends´: Vicarious Celebrity in the Memoir 6. ´Much honour and much fame were lost´: Idylls of the King and Camelot´s Celebrity Circle Bibliography Index

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"[The authors´] engaging and attentive close readings of different media ally them to the methods of new formalism". Clara Dawson, The Tennyson Society

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Charlotte Boyce is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She has published essays on Victorian cookery books and Victorian representations of hunger and famine, and is currently co-writing A History of Food in Literature.

Páraic Finnerty is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the author of Emily Dickinson´s Shakespeare (2006) and of the forthcoming Dickinson and her British Contemporaries.

Anne-Marie Millim gained her PhD in Victorian Literature from the University of Glasgow in 2009. She was involved in the University of Portsmouth´s project ´Tennyson´s Celebrity Circle´, then received a two-year postdoctoral research grant by the Luxembourg National Research Fund and is now principal investigator of an FNR-funded three-year research project on the feuilleton in Luxembourg.

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