Re-evaluating the Literary Coterie, 1580–1830

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Literary Coteries of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke

Chapter 3 Maecenas and ‘Oxford-Witts’: Pedagogy and Flattery in Seventeenth-Century Oxford

Chapter 4 The Circulation of Verse at the Inns of Court and in London in Early Stuart England

Chapter 5 ‘If I Had Known Him, I Would Have Loved Him’: Bloomsbury Appropriations of the Scriblerian Coterie

Chapter 6 The Hillarian Circle: Scorpions, Sexual Politics and Heterosocial Coteries

Chapter 7 Edmund Spenser and Coterie Culture, 1774–1790

Chapter 8 Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Forging of the Romantic Literary Coterie

Chapter 10 Aggressive Intimacy: Mass Markets and the Blackwood’s Magazine Coterie