The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-966089-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 816 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 1588 g

The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism offers a comprehensive guide to the literature and thought of the Romantic period, and an overview of the latest research on this topic. Written by a team of international experts, the Handbook analyses all aspects of the Romantic movement, pinpointing its different historical phases and analysing the intellectual and political currents which shaped them. It gives particular attention to devolutionary trends, exploring the English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish strands in 'British' Romanticism and assessing the impact of the constitutional changes that brought into being the 'United Kingdom' at a time of revolutionary turbulence and international conflict. It also gives extensive coverage to the publishing and reception history of Romantic writing, highlighting the role of readers, reviewers, publishers, and institutions in shaping Romantic literary culture and transmitting its ideas and values.

Divided into ten sections, each containing four or five chapters, the Handbook covers key themes and concepts in Romantic studies as well as less chartered topics such as freedom of speech, literature and drugs, Romantic oratory, and literary uses of dialect. All the major male and female Romantic authors are included along with numerous lesser-known writers, the emphasis throughout being on the diversity of Romantic writing and the complexities and internal divisions of the culture that sustained it. The volume strikes a balance between familiarity and novelty to provide an accessible guide to current thinking and a conceptual reorganization of this fast-moving field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duff, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part I: Historical Phases

- 1: Nick Groom: Romanticism before 1789

- 2: Jon Mee: The Revolutionary Decade

- 3: Simon Bainbridge: The New Century: 1800-1815

- 4: Kelvin Everest: Post-War Romanticism

- 5: Angela Esterhammer: The 1820s and Beyond

- Part II: Region and Nation

- 6: Fiona Stafford: England and Englishness

- 7: Penny Fielding: Scotland and the North

- 8: Mary-Ann Constantine: Wales and the West

- 9: Jim Kelly: Ireland and Union

- Part III: Hierarchies

- 10: Michael Bradshaw: Romantic Generations

- 11: Brian Goldberg: Poetry and Social Class

- 12: Gary Kelly: The Spectrum of Fiction

- 13: Anne K. Mellor: Gender Boundaries

- 14: Susan Manly: Literature for Children

- Part IV: Legislation

- 15: David Worrall: Freedom of Speech

- 16: Gillian Russell: The Regulation of Theatres

- 17: Anthony Howe: Poetic Defences and Manifestos

- 18: William Christie: Critical Judgement and the Reviewing Profession

- 19: Victoria Myers: Trial Literature

- Part V: Cognition

- 20: Thomas Keymer: The Subjective Turn

- 21: Noel Jackson: Literature and the Senses

- 22: Sharon Ruston: 'High' Romanticism: Literature and Drugs

- 23: Catherine Jones: Writer-Physicians

- Part VI: Composition

- 24: Erik Simpson: Orality and Improvisation

- 25: Jane Stabler: Revision and Self-Citation

- 26: Beth Lau: Intertextual Dialogue

- 27: Pamela Clemit: Letters and Journals

- Part VII: Publication

- 28: Paul Keen: Book-Making

- 29: Michael Gamer: Oeuvre-Making and Canon-Formation

- 30: Tom Mole: Celebrity and Anonymity

- 31: Felicity James: Romantic Readers

- 32: Lynda Pratt: Non-Publication

- Part VIII: Language

- 33: Jane Hodson: Literary Uses of Dialect

- 34: Judith Thompson: Romantic Oratory

- 35: Michael Rossington: Creative Translation

- 36: Stephen Behrendt: The Ineffable

- Part IX: Aesthetics

- 37: Andrew Bennett: The Romantic Lexicon

- 38: Tim Milnes: Literature and Philosophy

- 39: Gregory Dart: Practical Criticism

- 40: Sophie Thomas: Word and Image

- 41: Kirsteen McCue: The Culture of Song

- Part X: Imports and Exports

- 42: Nicholas Halmi: The Greco-Roman Revival

- 43: James Watt: Orientalism and Hebraism

- 44: James Vigus: Continental Romanticism in Britain

- 45: Patrick Vincent: British Romantics Abroad

- 46: Fiona Robertson: Transatlantic Engagements

Über Autor(innen)

David Duff is Professor of Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London and founder-director of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar. He is the author of Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre (1994) and Romanticism and the Uses of Genre (OUP, 2009), which won the ESSE Book Award for Literatures in the English Language. His edited books include Modern Genre Theory (2000), Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic (2007, with Catherine Jones), and the forthcoming Oxford Anthology of Romanticism. He is currently researching the literary history of the prospectus.