Romanticism in the Shadow of War

Literary Culture in the Napoleonic War Years

AvJeffrey N. Cox

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Jeffrey N. Cox reconsiders the history of British Romanticism, seeing the work of Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats responding not only to the 'first generation' Romantics led by Wordsworth, but more directly to the cultural innovations of the Napoleonic War years. Recreating in depth three moments of political crisis and cultural creativity - the Peace of Amiens, the Regency Crisis, and Napoleon's first abdication - Cox shows how 'second generation' Romanticism drew on cultural 'border raids', seeking a global culture at a time of global war. This book explores how the introduction on the London stage of melodrama in 1803 shaped Romantic drama, how Barbauld's prophetic satire Eighteen Hundred and Eleven prepares for the work of the Shelleys, and how Hunt's controversial Story of Rimini showed younger writers how to draw on the Italian cultural archive. Responding to world war, these writers sought to embrace a radically new vision of the world.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-03-23
Mått:153 x 230 x 19 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107419834

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Jeffrey N. Cox is Professor of English, of Comparative Literature, and of Humanities at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he is also the Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs. He is the author of Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Shelley, Keats, Hunt, and their Circle (Cambridge, 1998) and In the Shadows of Romance: Romantic Tragic Drama in Germany, England, and France (1987).

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'… richly rewarding … Couched in lucid prose that eschews academese without detracting from the scholasticism of Cox's undertaking, Romanticism in the Shadow of War wholly encompasses the richness of the era and its literary culture.' Neil Fitzgerald, The Times Literary Supplement

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Introduction: border raids as cultural practice; 1. Holcroft's Parisian expedition; 2. After war: Manfred and the melodrama; 3. Barbauld's sallies; 4. Love beyond faith and hope: Percy and Mary Shelley on history and prophecy; 5. The import of Hunt's 'Italianism'; 6. Cockneys in Tuscany; Select bibliography.