Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-928078-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 516 g

Tom Lockwood's study is the first examination of Jonson's place in the texts and culture of the Romantic age. Part one of the book explores theatrical, critical, and editorial responses to Jonson, including his place in the post-Garrick theatre, critical estimations of his life and work, and the politically-charged making and reception of William Gifford's 1816 edition of Jonson's Works. Part two explores allusive and imitative responses to Jonson's poetry and plays in the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and explores how Jonson serves variously as a model by which to measure the poet laureate, Robert Southey, and Coleridge's eldest son, Hartley. The introduction and conclusion locate this 'Romantic Jonson' against his eighteenth-century and Victorian re-creations. Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age shows us a varied, mobile, and contested Jonson and offers a fresh perspective on the Romantic age.

Zielgruppe

Advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in both the Early Modern and Romantic periods.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lockwood, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction: Romantic Jonson, Marginal Jonson

- 2: Francis Godolphin Waldron and The Sad Shepherd: Theatre, Criticism, Editing

- 3: Theatrical Jonson

- 4: Critical Jonson

- 5: Editorial Jonson

- 6: Francis Godolphin Waldron and The Sad Shepherd: Allusion and Imitation

- 7: Allusive Jonson (I): Coleridge

- 8: Allusive Jonson (II): Coleridge, Southey, and Hartley Coleridge

- 9: Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Tom Lockwood is a Tom Lockwood is a Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham. He was the 2003 winner of the Review of English Studies Essay Prize.