The Poetics Of Decline In British Romanticism
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Author | : Jonathan Sachs |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2018-01-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108420311 |
Offers fresh understanding of British Romanticism by exploring how anxieties about decline impacted debates about literature's form and meaning.
Author | : Stuart Curran |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1990-02-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195363019 |
Across Europe, and particularly in Great Britain, the Romantic age coincided with a large-scale revival of lost literatures and the first attempts to create a coherent history of Western literature. Calling into question that history, Stuart Curran demonstrates that the Romantic poets, far from being indifferent or hostile to popular forms of literature were actually obsessed with them as repositories of literary conventions and conveyors of implicit ideological value. Whether in their proccupation with fixed forms, which resulted in the incomparable artistry of Romantic odes, or in their rethinking of major genres like the pastoral, the epic, and the romance, the Romantic poets transformed every element they touched to suit their own democratic, secular and skeptical ethos--a world view recognizably modern in its dimensions.
Author | : Emily Rohrbach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
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Author | : J. Robinson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2006-04-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 140398283X |
This book calls attention to the pervasive but largely unacknowledged poetics of the 'Fancy' evident in poetry written during the British Romantic period. These poetics, Robinson demonstrates, are an early nineteenth-century version of what will become the visionary, experimental, open-form poetics of the twentieth-century.
Author | : Maureen N. McLane |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2008-09-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139827901 |
More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical contexts. The essays consider its metrical, formal, and linguistic features; its relation to history; its influence on other genres; its reflections of empire and nationalism, both within and outside the British Isles; and the various implications of oral transmission and the rapid expansion of print culture and mass readership. Attention is given to the work of less well-known or recently rediscovered authors, alongside the achievements of some of the greatest poets in the English language: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Clare.
Author | : Susan J. Wolfson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
Why care about poetic form and its intricacies, other than in nostalgia for a bygone era of criticism? The purpose of this book is to refresh today this care for criticism, applying a historically aware formalist reading to poetic form in Romanticism and showing how in theory and practice Romantic writers addressed, debated, tested, and contested fundamental questions about what is at stake in the poetic forming of language. In the process, it suggests the importance of these conflicted inquiries for contemporary critical discussion and demonstrates the pleasures of attending to the complex changes of form in poetic writing.
Author | : F L Lucas |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2011-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1447495128 |
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Author | : Mark Canuel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2022-04-07 |
Genre | : Romanticism |
ISBN | : 0192895303 |
What did Romantic writers mean when they wrote about progress and perfection? This book shows how Romantic writers inventively responded to familiar ideas about political progress which they inherited from the eighteenth century. Whereas earlier writers such as Voltaire and John Millar likened improvements in political institutions to the progress of the sciences or refinement of manners, the novelists, poets, and political theorists examined in this book reimagined politically progressive thinking in multiple genres. While embracing a commitment to optimistic improvement--increasing freedom, equality, and protection from injury--they also cultivated increasingly visible and volatile energies of religious and political dissent. Earlier narratives of progress tended not only to edit and fictionalize history but also to agglomerate different modes of knowledge and practice in their quest to describe and prescribe uniform cultural improvement. But romantic writers seize on internal division and take it less as an occasion for anxiety, exclusion, or erasure, and more as an impetus to rethink the groundwork of progress itself. Political entities, from Percy Shelley's plans for political reform to Charlotte Smith's motley associations of strangers in The Banished Man, are progressive because they advance some version of collective utility or common good. But they simultaneously stake a claim to progress only insofar as they paradoxically solicit contending vantage points on the criteria for the very public benefit which they passionately pursue. The majestic edifices of Wordsworth's imagined university in The Prelude embrace members who are republican or pious, not to mention the recalcitrant enthusiast who is the poet himself.
Author | : Lily Gurton-Wachter |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2016-03-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804798761 |
This book revisits British Romanticism as a poetics of heightened attention. At the turn of the nineteenth century, as Britain was on the alert for a possible French invasion, attention became a phenomenon of widespread interest, one that aligned and distinguished an unusual range of fields (including medicine, aesthetics, theology, ethics, pedagogy, and politics). Within this wartime context, the Romantic aesthetic tradition appears as a response to a crisis in attention caused by demands on both soldiers and civilians to keep watch. Close formal readings of the poetry of Blake, Coleridge, Cowper, Keats, (Charlotte) Smith, and Wordsworth, in conversation with research into Enlightenment philosophy and political and military discourses, suggest the variety of forces competing for—or commanding—attention in the period. This new framework for interpreting Romanticism and its legacy illuminates what turns out to be an ongoing tradition of war literature that, rather than give testimony to or represent warfare, uses rhythm and verse to experiment with how and what we attend to during times of war.
Author | : Diego Saglia |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108426417 |
Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.