British Romanticism

Criticism and Debates
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-52382-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 662 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1163 g

Reihe: Routledge Criticism and Debates in Literature

Including classic essays and lively debates, British Romanticism shows that Romantic literature is an interesting and exciting topic to read and study. Combining key pieces from the last 25 years alongside newly written essays offering fresh takes on the area, this book covers the essential topics but with a contemporary and dynamic twist.

Each section includes a detailed introduction and covers issues which are as relevant to current readers as to those in the romantic period, such as media, science, religion, politics, ethics, gender, sexuality, race, nationalism and ethics. The book contains additional features such as suggestions for further reading and an introduction to the history of interpreting Romantic Literature. Designed to appeal to both undergraduate and postgraduate readers, this distinctive volume reflects the vibrant debates across Romantic Studies from the 1990s to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Canuel, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Aesthetics and Literary Form 1. Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Detail Alan Liu 2. Romanticism, Deconstruction, and Wordsworth Frances Ferguson 3. Byron’s "The Corsair" Susan Wolfson 4. Red Kant Robert Kaufman 5. New Essay William Keach Part 2: Audiences and Reading Publics 1. Romantic Theory and English Reading Audiences Jon P. Klancher 2. "Frost at Midnight" Paul Magnuson 3. The Sense of an Audience Lucy Newlyn 4. Study to be Quiet Kevin Gilmartin 5. Reading and its Consequences William St. Clair 6. New Essay Andrew Franta Part 3: Authorship and Authority 1. The Postmodernism of "Childe Harold" William Galperin 2. Scott and The Historical Novel Ina Ferris 3. Romantic Culture of Posterity Andrew Bennett 4. Women’s Political Poetry Ann Mellor 5. New Essay Meg Russett Part 4: Literature, Politics, and Ideology 1. "Tintern Abbey" Marjorie Levinson 2. "To Autumn" Nicholas Roe 3. Byron’s Causes James Chandler 4. Inchbald’s Indies Daniel O’Quinn 5. Keats and Critique Paul Hamilton 6. New Essay Simon Jarvis Part 5: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body 1. The Oriental Tales Jerome Christensen 2. Mary Shelley’s stories Sonia Hofkosh 3. Blake’s "Milton" Andrew Elfenbein 4. "Sense and Sensibility" Clara Tuite 5. New Essay Deidre Lynch Part 6: Racism, Nationalism, Colonialism, Imperialism 1. "Frankenstein" H.L. Malchow 2. Blake Saree Makdisi 3. Romantic poetry-Blake, Wordsworth Marcus Wood 4. Colonial Disease Narratives in Wordsworth, Coleridge Alan Bewell 5. New Essay Nigel Leask Part 7: The Emotions 1. Charlotte Smith Adela Pinch 2. Barbauld and Wheatley Julie Ellison 3. Imagining the King’s Death: Figuration, Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796 John Barrell 4. Debate on sentimental novels Markman Ellis 5. New Essay Thomas Pfau Part 8: Religion and Secularization 1. Shelley and "The Unknown God" Robert Ryan 2. The Atheism Debate Martin Priestman 3. The History of Enthusiasm Jon Mee 4. Anna Barbauld and Devotional Tastes Daniel E. White 5. New Essay Colin Jager Part 9: Modernity and Postmodernity 1. National Character, Nationalist Plots Katie Trumpener 2. Keats Orrin N.C. Wang 3. Cowper’s "Georgic of the News" Kevis Goodman 4. War in the Air Mary Favret 5. New Essay Ian Duncan Part 10: Sciences of Mind, Body, and Nature 1. Coleridge Alan Richardson 2. Jenner Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee, and Peter Kitson 3. The Political Body Sharon Ruston 4. Keats’s "Lamia" Denise Gigante 5. New Essay Jonathan Bate Part 11: Literature, Media, Mediation 1. Understanding Media in 1805 Celeste Langan 2. Byron’s "Ode to the Framers of the Frame" Bill Tom Mole 3. Blake, Wordsworth, and contemporary poetry Maureen McLane 4. "Heart of Mid-Lothian" Andrew Piper 5. New Essay Clifford Siskin

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Canuel is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.He is author of Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime (2012), The Shadow of Death: Literature, Romanticism, and the Subject of Punishment (2007), and Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790-1830 (2002).