Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Placing Charlotte Smith

Av Elizabeth A. Dolan, Jacqueline M. Labbe

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Beskrivning

A lively and far-ranging interest in place, space, and situation characterizes the work of Romantic-era British author Charlotte Smith (1749-1806). Featuring ten original essays, an introduction and an epilogue, this volume offers new insights into Smith’s life and work by exploring two central issues: Smith’s place as a foundational writer in her period, and her contribution to the creation of “place” as a concept of social and literary importance. The contributors analyze themes such as itineracy, the natural world, and patriotism; they also explore the position of Smith’s work and authorial identity in terms of genre, aesthetics, and market dynamics. With its innovative approach to place as a material location, symbolic principle, and literary device, this volume advances our understanding of Smith’s work. Placing Charlotte Smith reveals Smith as an author who not only energizes our interest in domestic concerns, but who also shapes a global discourse constituted by changing ideas about borders, travel, national, and international identities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2020-12-30
Mått: 161 x 239 x 24 mm
Vikt: 608 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 338
Förlag: Associated University Presses
ISBN: 9781611462951

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Elizabeth A. Dolanis professor of English and Deputy Provost for Graduate Education at Lehigh University.Jacqueline M. Labbe is professor of English and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at De Montfort University, UK.

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The essays in Placing Charlotte Smith showcase the results of the last 25 years of scholarship on Smith to establish her place in the canon of British Romantic-era artists and to contextualize her within the political, aesthetic, and scientific concepts and practices of her time… Especially illuminating is discussion of the ways Smith employed, deconstructed, and refashioned contemporaneous literary, pictorial, and scientific conventions. Well trained in Linnaean taxonomy, she created an alternative, liminal poetic seascape. Using the “productive tensions Smith create[d] between the pastoral and picturesque traditions,” including unlovely economic facts such as smuggling, Smith demonstrated the constructedness of pastoral scenes and lives normally portrayed there. One difficulty—and pleasure—in “placing” Charlotte Smith is that she creates ambiguous, multivalent personae to ensure the wide readership so essential to her survival. Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

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