Romanticism

An Oxford Guide
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-925840-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 776 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1464 g

This book is a comprehensive guide to the richness and diversity of the Romantic field. It includes 46 specially commissioned chapters by an international team of leading scholars and combines chapters offering background and contextual information with detailed readings of Romantic texts.

The volume is divided into four parts - 'Romantic Orientations', 'Reading Romanticism', 'Romantic Forms' and 'Romantic Afterlives'.

Zielgruppe

Suitable for all undergraduates studying Romanticism. Also suitable for the general reader looking for a comprehensive guide to Romanticism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roe, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part 1

- Romantic Orientations

- 1: Simon Bainbridge: The Historical Context

- 2: Jane Stabler: The Literary Background

- 3: Bruce Graver: Classical Inheritances

- 4: Adela Pinch: Sensibility

- 5: Stephen Behrendt: The Visual Arts and Music

- 6: John Barnard: Print Culture

- 7: Timothy Fulford: Romanticism and Science

- 8: Alan Gregory: Religion and Philosophy

- 9: Fiona Stafford: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland

- 10: Christopher Bode: Europe

- 11: Nigel Leask: Easts

- 12: Susan Manning: Americas

- Part 2

- Reading Romanticism

- 13: Kenneth Johnston: Historicist/Marxist Approaches

- 14: Anne Mellor: Feminist Approaches

- 15: Jim McKusick: Ecological Approaches

- 16: Andrew Roberts: Psychoanalytic Approaches

- 17: Deirdre Coleman: Postcolonial Approaches

- 18: Richard Cronin: Formalist Approaches

- Part 3

- Romantic Forms

- 19: Michael O'Neill: Introduction to Romantic Forms

- 20: Paul Sheats: The Lyric

- 21: Lynda Pratt: Epic

- 22: David Fairer: The Sonnet

- 23: Peter Vassallo: Narrative Poetry

- 24: Corinna Russell: The Novel

- 25: Steven Jones: Satire

- 26: Judith Pascoe: Drama

- 27: Will Christie: Essays, Newspapers and Magazines

- 28: Anthony Harding: Biography and Autobiography

- 29: Greg Kucich: Romance

- 30: Nicola Trott: Gothic

- 31: Sophie Thomas: Fragments

- 32: Debbie Lee: Forgeries

- 33: John Whale: Non-Fictional Prose

- 34: Carl Thompson: Travel Writing

- 35: Nichola Deane: Letters, Diaries and Journals

- Part 4

- Romantic Afterlives

- 36: Seamus Perry: Literary Criticism and Theory

- 37: Charles Rzepka: The Poetic Tradition

- 38: Michael Herbert: The Novel

- 39: Jerrold Hogle: Film

- 40: Julie Carlson: Romantic Afterlives and Legacies in the Theatre

- 41: Andrew Bennett: Idea of the Author

- 42: Edward Larrissy: Modernism and Postmodernity

- 43: Peter Kitson: Politics

- 44: Marilyn Gaull: Science

- 45: Timothy Morton: Environmentalism

- 46: David Miall: Romanticism in the Electronic Age

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Roe is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews. He has published extensively on Wordsworth and Coleridge and he is the author of John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (Oxford University Press, 1998).