The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-19-883454-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 992 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 258 mm, Gewicht: 1916 g

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is a full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British Romantic nonfiction prose. Organized into eight parts, each containing between five and nine chapters arranged alphabetically, the Handbook weaves together familiar and unfamiliar texts, events, and authors, and invites readers to draw comparisons, reimagine connections and disconnections, and confront frequently stark contradictions, within British Romantic nonfiction prose, but also in its relationship to British Romanticism more generally, and to the literary practices and cultural contexts of other periods and countries. The Handbook builds on previous scholarship in the field, considers emerging trends and evolving methodologies, and suggests future areas of study. Throughout the emphasis is on lucid expression rather than gnomic declaration, and on chapters that offer, not a dutiful survey, but evaluative assessments that keep an eye on the bigger picture yet also dwell meaningfully on specific paradoxes and the most telling examples. Taken as a whole the volume demonstrates the energy, originality, and diversity at the crux of British Romantic nonfiction prose. It vigorously challenges the traditional construction of the British Romantic movement as focused too exclusively on the accomplishments of its poets, and it reveals the many ways in which scholars of the period are steadily broadening out and opening up delineations of British Romanticism in order to encompass and thoroughly evaluate the achievements of its nonfiction prose writers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morrison, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- PART I EXPLORATION AND IDEAS OF EMPIRE

- 1: Jared Hickman: Africa

- 2: Daniel Sanjiv Roberts: Asia

- 3: Diego Saglia: Europe

- 4: Porscha Fermanis: Latin America

- 5: Stephen Minta: The Levant

- 6: Pam Perkins: North America

- 7: Siobhan Maria Carroll: Polar Prose

- 8: Deirdre Coleman: Voyaging in the Pacific

- PART II NATION AND REGION

- 9: David Stewart: Landscape

- 10: Matthew Sangster: Metropolitanism

- 11: David Higgins: Nature Writing

- 12: Alex Broadhead: Regionalism: England

- 13: Sonja Lawrenson: Regionalism: Ireland

- 14: Anthony Jarrells: Regionalism: Scotland

- 15: Jane Aaron: Regionalism: Wales

- PART III IMAGINATION AND INTELLECTUAL CULTURE

- 16: Deidre Lynch: Antiquarian Publishing

- 17: Clare A. Simmons: History

- 18: Noah Heringman: Natural Science

- 19: Tom Duggett: Religious Controversy

- 20: Regina Hewitt: Social Science

- PART IV COMPLEX IDENTITES

- 21: Ian Balfour: Autobiography

- 22: Mark Schoenfield and Alec Jordan: Biography

- 23: Barry Milligan: Confessions

- 24: Charles W. Mahoney: Diaries, Notebooks, and Marginalia

- 25: Thomas Richardson: Letters

- PART V AESTHETICS, LANGUAGE, AND STYLE

- 26: Timothy P. Campbell: Fashion

- 27: Quentin Bailey: Fine Arts

- 28: Jane Moore: Music

- 29: Andrew Warren: Philosophy

- 30: Yasmin Solomonescu: Rhetoric

- 31: Daniel DeWispelare: Translation

- PART VI POLITICS

- 32: Yoon Sun Lee: Political Controversy I: The Revolution Debate

- 33: John Gardner: Political Controversy II: Waterloo to Peterloo

- 34: Kathryn Chittick: Political Controversy III: The Great Reform Bill

- 35: Robert J. Mayhew: Political Economy

- 36: Michael Demson: Political Parody and Satire

- PART VII SOCIAL BELIEFS AND PRACTICES

- 37: Donelle Ruwe: Children's Literature

- 38: Suzanne L. Barnett: Education

- 39: Anya Taylor: Food and Drink

- 40: Peter J. Kitson: Opium

- 41: Joel Black: Poetic Justice, Prosaic Crime

- 42: James Najarian: Sexualities

- 43: Elizabeth Bohls: Slavery

- 44: John Strachan: Sports Writing

- 45: Lily Gurton-Wachter: War

- PART VIII AUTHORS, CRITICS, READERS, REVIEWERS

- 46: Duncan Wu: Dramatic Criticism

- 47: Robert Morrison: Essays

- 48: Andrew Keanie: Literary Criticism

- 49: Nicholas Mason: Literary Parody and Satire

- 50: Richard Cronin: Magazines

- 51: David Latané: Newspapers

- 52: Rebecca Cole Heinowitz: Prefaces, Prospectuses, Defences, and Manifestos

- 53: Jonathan Cutmore: Reviews

- 54: Will Bowers: Table Talk

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Morrison is British Academy Global Professor at Bath Spa University and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of The Regency Revolution (2019), which was shortlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Crown Award for the best in non-fiction historical writing, and named by The Economist as one of its 2019 Books of the Year. His biography of Thomas De Quincey, The English Opium Eater (2009), was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize. Morrison edited De Quincey's Selected Writings (2019) for Oxford University Press, and Jane Austen's Persuasion (2011) for Harvard University Press.