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Coleridge on Dreaming
Romanticism, Dreams and the Medical Imagination
Av Jennifer Ford, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
842 kr
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This book is the first in-depth investigation of Coleridge's responses to his dreams and to contemporary debates on the nature of dreaming, a subject of perennial interest to poets, philosophers and scientists throughout the Romantic period. Coleridge wrote and read extensively on the subject, but …
Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Av Barbara Taylor, James Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
767 kr
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In the two centuries since Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she has become an icon of modern feminism: a stature that has paradoxically obscured her real historic significance. In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops …
Byron and Romanticism
Av Jerome McGann, James Soderholm
Häftad, 2002
729 kr
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This 2002 collection of essays represents twenty-five years of work by one of the most important critics of Romanticism and Byron studies, Jerome McGann. The collection demonstrates McGann's evolution as a scholar, editor, critic, theorist, and historian. His 'General Analytic and Historical …
Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism
Av Gregory Dart, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
842 kr
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This book re-opens the question of Rousseau's influence on the French Revolution and on English Romanticism, by examining the relationship between his confessional writings and his political theory. Gregory Dart argues that by looking at the way in which Rousseau's writings were mediated by the …
British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind
Av Alan Richardson, Marilyn Butler
Häftad, 2005
767 kr
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In this provocative and original study, Alan Richardson examines an entire range of intellectual, cultural, and ideological points of contact between British Romantic literary writing and the pioneering brain science of the time. Richardson breaks new ground in two fields, revealing a significant …
Poetry as an Occupation and an Art in Britain, 1760-1830
Av Peter T. Murphy, Marilyn Butler
Häftad, 2005
640 kr
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Peter Murphy's book examines the tension between the material, economic pressures motivating poetry as an occupation, and traditional notions of the forces of literary history defining poetry as an art. It focuses on five writers in the Romantic period: James MacPherson, Robert Burns, James Hogg, …
Wordsworth and the Geologists
Av John Wyatt, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
654 kr
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Examination of the links between science and literary history is providing new insight for scholars across a range of disciplines. In Wordsworth and the Geologists, first published in 1995, John Wyatt explores the relationship between a major Romantic poet and a group of scientists in the formative …
Romance and Revolution
Shelley and the Politics of a Genre
Av David Duff, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
787 kr
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The revival of romance as a literary form and the imaginative impact of the French Revolution are acknowledged influences on English Romanticism, but their relationship has rarely been addressed. In this innovative study of the transformations of a genre, David Duff examines the paradox whereby the …
Print Politics
The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England
Av Kevin Gilmartin, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
823 kr
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Print Politics was the first literary study of the culture of the popular radical movement for parliamentary reform in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The period was characterized by popular agitation and repressive political measures including trials for seditious and blasphemous …
The Anti-Jacobin Novel
British Conservatism and the French Revolution
Av M. O. Grenby, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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The French Revolution sparked an ideological debate which also brought Britain to the brink of revolution in the 1790s. Just as radicals wrote 'Jacobin' fiction, so the fear of rebellion prompted conservatives to respond with novels of their own; indeed, these soon outnumbered the Jacobin novels. …
Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790-1830
Av Mark Canuel, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
654 kr
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In Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790-1830, Mark Canuel examines the way that Romantic poets, novelists and political writers criticized the traditional grounding of British political unity in religious conformity. Canuel shows how a wide range of writers including Jeremy Bentham, Ann …
Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s
Romantic Belongings
Av Angela Keane, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
654 kr
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Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national …
Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism
Av David Aram Kaiser, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
729 kr
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This ambitious study, first published in 1999, argues that our conception of the aesthetic sphere emerged during the era of British and German Romanticism from conflicts between competing models of the liberal state and the cultural nation. The aesthetic sphere is thus centrally connected to …
Imagination under Pressure, 1789-1832
Aesthetics, Politics and Utility
Av John Whale, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
787 kr
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This ambitious study, first published in 2000, offers a radical reassessment of one of the most important concepts of the Romantic period - the imagination. In contrast to traditional accounts, John Whale locates the Romantic imagination within the period's lively and often antagonistic polemics on …
Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition
Av Anne Janowitz, Marilyn Butler
Häftad, 2005
842 kr
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Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition, first published in 1998, examines the legacy of Romantic poetics in the poetry produced in political movements during the nineteenth century. It argues that a communitarian tradition of poetry extending from the 1790s to the 1890s learned from and …
Women, Nationalism, and the Romantic Stage
Theatre and Politics in Britain, 1780-1800
Av Betsy Bolton, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
640 kr
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In the 1780s and 90s, theatre critics described the stage as a state in political tumult, while politicians invoked theatre as a model for politics both good and bad. In this 2001 study, Betsy Bolton examines the ways Romantic women performers and playwrights used theatrical conventions to …
British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, 1740-1830
Av Miranda J. Burgess, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
898 kr
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In British Fiction and the Production of Social Order Miranda Burgess examines what Romantic-period writers called 'romance': a hybrid genre defined by a shared role in the negotiation of conflicts between political economy and moral philosophy. Reading a broad range of fictional and non-fictional …
Wordsworth's Pope
A Study in Literary Historiography
Av Robert J. Griffin, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
598 kr
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Recent studies of the concepts and ideologies of Romanticism have neglected to examine the ways in which Romanticism defined itself by reconfiguring its literary past. In Wordsworth's Pope Robert J. Griffin shows that many of the basic tenets of Romanticism derive from mid-eighteenth-century …
Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709-1834
Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth
Av Caroline Gonda, Marilyn Butler
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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It has been argued that the eighteenth century witnessed a decline in paternal authority, and the emergence of more intimate, affectionate relationships between parent and child. In Reading Daughters' Fictions, Caroline Gonda draws on a wide range of novels and non-literary materials from the …
Napoleon and English Romanticism
Av Simon Bainbridge, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
748 kr
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Napoleon Bonaparte occupied a central place in the consciousness of many British writers of the Romantic period. He was a profound shaping influence on their thinking and writing, and a powerful symbolic and mythic figure whom they used to legitimize and discredit a wide range of political and …
Keats, Narrative and Audience
The Posthumous Life of Writing
Av Andrew Bennett, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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Andrew Bennett's original study of Keats focuses on questions of narrative and audience as a means to offer new readings of the major poems. It discusses ways in which reading is 'figured' in Keats's poetry, and suggests that such 'figures of reading' have themselves determined certain modes of …
Shelley and the Revolution in Taste
The Body and the Natural World
Av Timothy Morton, Marilyn Butler
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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This book brings together the themes of diet, consumption, the body, and human relationships with the natural world, in a highly original study of Shelley. A campaigning vegetarian and proto-ecological thinker, Shelley may seem to us curiously modern, but Morton offers an illuminatingly broad …
Contesting the Gothic
Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832
Av James Watt, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
750 kr
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James Watt's historically grounded account of Gothic fiction, first published in 1999, takes issue with received accounts of the genre as a stable and continuous tradition. Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, Watt shows the Gothic to have been a heterogeneous body of fiction, …
The Poetics of Spice
Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic
Av Timothy Morton, Marilyn Butler
Häftad, 2006
457 kr
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This 2000 book considers the literary and cultural significance of spice, and the spice trade, in Romantic literature, shedding new light on the impact of consumerism and capitalist ideology on writers of the period. Timothy Morton demonstrates how the emerging consumer culture was characterized by …
Ideology and Utopia in the Poetry of William Blake
Av Nicholas M. Williams, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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Scholars have often drawn attention to William Blake's unusual sensitivity to his social context. In this book Nicholas Williams situates Blake's thought historically by showing how through the decades of a long and productive career Blake consistently responded to the ideas, writing, and art of …
Romantic Atheism
Poetry and Freethought, 1780-1830
Av Martin Priestman, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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Romantic Atheism explores the links between English Romantic poetry and the first burst of outspoken atheism in Britain from the 1780s onwards. Martin Priestman examines the work of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron and Keats in their most intellectually radical periods, establishing the …
Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity
Av Andrew Bennett, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
842 kr
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This 1999 book examines the way in which the Romantic period's culture of posterity inaugurates a tradition of writing which demands that the poet should write for an audience of the future: the true poet, a figure of neglected genius, can be properly appreciated only after death. Andrew Bennett …
Romanticism and the Gothic
Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation
Av Michael Gamer, Marilyn Butler
Häftad, 2006
750 kr
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This is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre - the Gothic. Michael Gamer offers a sharply focused analysis of how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions whilst, at the same time, …
Romantic Identities
Varieties of Subjectivity, 1774-1830
Av Andrea K. Henderson, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
787 kr
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One of the defining features of Romantic writing, critics have long agreed, is its characterization of the self in terms of psychological depth. Many Romantic writers, however, did not conceive of the self in this way, and in Romantic Identities Andrea K. Henderson investigates that part of …
The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s
Print Culture and the Public Sphere
Av Paul Keen, Marilyn Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
767 kr
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This book offers an original study of the debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature. Paul Keen shows how these debates were situated at the intersection of the French Revolution and a more gradual revolution in information and literacy reflecting the …
