Romanticism and Time

Romanticism and Time
Author: Sophie Laniel-Musitelli
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2021-03-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1800640749

‘Eternity is in love with the productions of time’. This original edited volume takes William Blake’s aphorism as a basis to explore how British Romantic literature creates its own sense of time. It considers Romantic poetry as embedded in and reflecting on the march of time, regarding it not merely as a reaction to the course of events between the late-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, but also as a form of creative engagement with history in the making. The authors offer a comprehensive overview of the question of time from a literary perspective, applying a diverse range of critical approaches to Romantic authors from William Blake and Percy Shelley to John Clare and Samuel Rodgers. Close readings uncover fresh insights into these authors and their works, including Frankenstein, the most familiar of Romantic texts. Revising current thinking about periodisation, the authors explore how the Romantic poetics of time bears witness to the ruptures and dislocations at work within chronological time. They consider an array of topics, such as ecological time, futurity, operatic time, or the a-temporality of Venice. As well as surveying the Romantic canon’s evolution over time, these essays approach it as a phenomenon unfolding across national borders. Romantic authors are compared with American or European counterparts including Beethoven, Irving, Nietzsche and Beckett. Romanticism and Time will be of great value to literary scholars and students working in Romantic Studies. It will be of further interest to philosophers and historians working on the connections between philosophy, history and literature during the nineteenth century.

Julia Margaret Cameron's Women

Julia Margaret Cameron's Women
Author: Sylvia Wolf
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0300077815

Profiles the life and work of a nineteenth century pioneer of photography and offers a selection of her portraits of women

Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Love Peacock (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Love Peacock (Illustrated)
Author: Thomas Love Peacock
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 2335
Release: 2018-09-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1786561255

The English novelist and poet Thomas Love Peacock was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they are believed to have influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, featuring characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day. In his most famous novel, ‘Nightmare Abbey’, romantic melancholy is satirised, with amusing lampoons of Shelley, Coleridge and Byron. For the first time in digital publishing, this eBook presents Peacock’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Peacock’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 7 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Melincourt’ * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare unfinished novels available in no other collection * Includes Peacock’s complete poetry – available in no other collection * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Peacock’s plays, discovered for the first time in the twentieth century * Rare non-fiction works * A bonus biography – discover Peacock’s life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels Headlong Hall Melincourt Nightmare Abbey Maid Marian The Misfortunes of Elphin Crotchet Castle Gryll Grange Shorter Fiction and Unfinished Novels Satyrane Calidore The Pilgrim of Provence The Lord of the Hills Julia Procula A Story Opening at Chertsey A Story of a Mansion among the Chiltern Hills Boozabowt Abbey Cotswald Chace The Plays The Dilettanti The Circle of Loda The Three Doctors Gl’Ingannati, or The Deceived The Poetry The Collected Poetry of Thomas Love Peacock List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction The Four Ages of Poetry Recollections of Childhood: The Abbey House Memoirs of Shelley The Last Day of Windsor Forest Prospectus: Classical Education The Biography Thomas Love Peacock by Richard Garnett Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

A History of Literary Criticism

A History of Literary Criticism
Author: Harry Blamires
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 423
Release: 1991-08-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349214957

The author traces the course of literary criticism from its foundations in classical and medieval precepts to the theorising of the present day. He explores the texts which have been milestones in the history of critical thought, placing them firmly in the context of their time.