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work_nj43wlkjyfcrjjidlm7sl6pte4	David Haven Blake	When Readers Become Fans: Nineteenth-Century American Poetry as a Fan Activity	2012.0	24	.pdf	application/pdf	10650	779	66	In nineteenth-century poetry, scholars have an especially good subject for shifting their attention from the collective experience of fame to its personal impact. I want to use this essay to reflect on the questions and, indeed, opportunities that nineteenth-century poetry fans raise for scholars of literature, cultural Thinking about readers as fans is equally valuable to the task of developing a social history of poetry.7 Yopie Prins has challenged scholars to develop different direction by arguing that the rise of celebrity and fandom in the antebellum United States created an important shift in the culture of nineteenth-century the benefits of thinking about fandom as a way of reading, a way of approaching both the poem and the institution of poetry with intensive personal urgency. In the nascent culture of celebrity, Whitman and Smith were novitiates struggling to understand the relationship between lyric performance and fan response.	./cache/work_nj43wlkjyfcrjjidlm7sl6pte4.pdf	./txt/work_nj43wlkjyfcrjjidlm7sl6pte4.txt