Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories – serie
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Reception and Poetics in Keats
My Ended Poet
Av J. Robinson
Inbunden, 1999
1260 kr
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Occasioned by the spirit of celebrating Keats's 200th birthday (31 October 1995), Jeffrey C. Robinson's Reception and Poetics in Keats offers at once a history and readings of the many praise and commemorative poems to or about Keats (collected in an appendix) from the time of his early death up to …
Romantic Cult of Shakespeare
Literary Reception in Anthropological Perspective
Av P. Davidhazi
Inbunden, 1998
1260 kr
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Focusing on England, Hungary and on some other European countries, the book explores the latent religious patterns in the appropriation of Shakespeare from the 1769 Stratford Jubilee to the tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth in 1864. It shows how the Shakespeare cult used quasi-religious (verbal …
Cultural Politics in the 1790s
Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere
Av A. McCann
Inbunden, 1999
552 kr
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Cultural Politics in the 1790s examines the relationship between sentimental literature, political activism and the public sphere at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on critical theorists such as Habermas, Negt and Kluge, Marcuse and Foucault, it attempts to demonstrate how major literary …
Romanticism and Masculinity
Gender, Politics and Poetics in the Writing of Burke, Coleridge, Cobbett, Wordsworth, De Quincey and Hazlitt
Av T. Fulford
Inbunden, 1999
1887 kr
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This book examines the male Romantics' versions of poetic authority in theory and practice in the context of their involvement in the political debates of Regency Britain and argues that their response to Burke's gendered discourse about power effected radical changes in the definitions of …
Wordsworth's Poems of Travel 1819-1842
Such Sweet Wayfaring
Av J. Wyatt
Inbunden, 1999
1260 kr
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There is a long-held view that Wordsworth's inspiration dried up before the age of forty. The argument is that, in order to appreciate this work, much of which was inspired by itineraries in Britain and in Europe, we have to read the poems as they were first published.
Romanticism and Male Fantasy in Byron’s Don Juan
A Marketable Vice
Av C. Donelan
Inbunden, 2000
1260 kr
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Don Juan , Byron's best poem, is a sensational radical satire. It uses the legend of Don Juan to expose the male fantasies behind Romanticism and nineteenth-century public culture. This book looks at how Europe's most famous literary celebrity shows his dark side in Don Juan , a canonical long poem …
Romantic Dynamics
The Poetics of Physicality
Av M. Lussier
Inbunden, 2000
1260 kr
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Romantic Dynamics creatively collides English poetry with a wide range of exotic concepts associated with the 'new physics' of relativity and quantum to uncover their shared concerns for indeterminacy, uncertainty, relativity, and complexity in a chaotic universe. This interdisciplinary work traces …
Politics of Romantic Poetry
In Search of the Pure Commonwealth
Av R. Cronin
Inbunden, 2000
634 kr
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In recent years critics of Romantic poetry have divided into two groups that have little to say to one another. This book attempts to reconcile the two groups by arguing that a poet's most effective political action is the forging of a new language, and that the political import of a poem is a …
Romanticism and Masculinity
Gender, Politics and Poetics in the Writing of Burke, Coleridge, Cobbett, Wordsworth, De Quincey and Hazlitt
Av T. Fulford
Inbunden, 1999
1887 kr
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This book examines the male Romantics' versions of poetic authority in theory and practice in the context of their involvement in the political debates of Regency Britain and argues that their response to Burke's gendered discourse about power effected radical changes in the definitions of …
Sacred and Secular Canon in Romanticism
Preserving the Sacred Truths
Av D. Jasper
Inbunden, 1998
1260 kr
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This book is an interdisciplinary study of Romanticism which focuses on the reception of the Biblical canon in poetry, art and theory. The Bible is acknowledged as the heart of European culture, but as its status as the sacred text of Judaism and Christianity becomes questionable, it remains at the …
Jefferson and the Iconography of Romanticism
Folk, Land, Culture, and the Romantic Nation
Av M. Kelsall
Inbunden, 1999
1260 kr
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Jefferson and the Iconography of Romanticism is the first full-length study to examine how Jefferson, in the process of inventing the USA as the first new nation of the Romantic era, sought to find an appropriate imagery to represent the people, their homeland and the cultural ideal to which they …
Romantic Cult of Shakespeare
Literary Reception in Anthropological Perspective
Av P. Davidhazi
Inbunden, 1998
1260 kr
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Focusing on England, Hungary and on some other European countries, the book explores the latent religious patterns in the appropriation of Shakespeare from the 1769 Stratford Jubilee to the tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth in 1864. It shows how the Shakespeare cult used quasi-religious (verbal …
Reception and Poetics in Keats
My Ended Poet
Av J. Robinson
Inbunden, 1998
1260 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Occasioned by the spirit of celebrating Keats's 200th birthday (31 October 1995), Jeffrey C. Robinson's Reception and Poetics in Keats offers at once a history and readings of the many praise and commemorative poems to or about Keats (collected in an appendix) from the time of his early death up to …
Romanticism on the Road
The Marginal Gains of Wordsworth's Homeless
Av T. Benis
Inbunden, 2000
1260 kr
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Romanticism on the Road challenges critical orthodoxy by arguing that Wordsworth rejected the political dogmas of his age. Refusing to ally with either radicals or conservatives after the French Revolution, the poet seizes on vagrants to attack the binary thinking dominating public affairs and to …
Romantic Idea of a University
England and Germany, 1770-1850
Inbunden, 2001
634 kr
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By the late eighteenth century, universities in England and Germany had lost their sense of purpose. The romantics then presented them with a new one, a new Idea of a university. In Germany, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and others stressed that universities must teach more effectively; in England, …
Revolutionary 'I'
Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation
Av A. Nichols
Inbunden, 1998
1260 kr
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In the winter of 1798-99, shut up in the freezing German town of Goslar, William Wordsworth began producing a series of lyrical fragments that appeared first in letters written to Coleridge and emerged eventually as source texts for The Prelude . These lyrics are revolutionary because they …
Romantic Geography
Wordsworth and Anglo-European Spaces
Av M. Wiley
Inbunden, 1998
1260 kr
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Grounded in historical sources and informed by recent work in cultural, sociological, geographical and spatial studies, Romantic Geography illuminates the nexus between imaginative literature and geography in William Wordsworth's poetry and prose. It shows that eighteenth-century social and …
Romantic Dynamics
The Poetics of Physicality
Av M. Lussier
Inbunden, 1999
1260 kr
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English poetry creatively collides with a wide range of exotic concepts associated with the "new physics" of relativity and quantum to uncover their shared concerns for indeterminacy, uncertainty, relativity, and complexity in a chaotic universe. This interdisciplinary work traces the elaboration …
Emerson's Sublime Science
Av E. Wilson
Inbunden, 1999
1260 kr
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Emerson's Sublime Science explores relationships among Emerson's poetics, theory of the sublime, and engagement with electromagnetism. The book illustrates how Davy's chemistry and Faraday's physics revealed to Emerson a sublime universe in which matter is boundless electrical force. It argues that …
Bacchus in Romantic England
Writers and Drink 1780-1830
Av A. Taylor
Inbunden, 1998
1260 kr
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Bacchus in Romantic England describes real drunkenness among writers and ordinary people in the Romantic age. It grounds this 'reality' in writings by doctors and philanthropists from 1780 onwards, who describe an epidemic of drunkenness. These commentators provide a context for the different ways …
Cultural Politics in the 1790s
Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere
Av A. McCann
Inbunden, 1998
1260 kr
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Cultural Politics in the 1790s examines the relationship between sentimental literature, political activism and the public sphere at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on critical theorists such as Habermas, Negt and Kluge, Marcuse and Foucault, it attempts to demonstrate how major literary …
Wordsworth's Poems of Travel 1819-1842
Such Sweet Wayfaring
Av J. Wyatt
Inbunden, 1999
1260 kr
Lägg i varukorg
There is a long-held view that Wordsworth's inspiration dried up before the age of forty. This book opposes that view by examining the substantial body of poetry written after his fiftieth year. The argument is that, in order to appreciate this work, much of which was inspired by itineraries in …
Romanticism and Male Fantasy in Byron’s Don Juan
A Marketable Vice
Av C. Donelan
Inbunden, 1999
1260 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Don Juan , Byron's best poem, is a sensational radical satire. It uses the legend of Don Juan to expose the male fantasies behind Romanticism and nineteenth-century public culture. Critics feared that the poem was a 'manual for vice' and would corrupt society. Should England's best selling author …
Politics of Romantic Poetry
In Search of the Pure Commonwealth
Av R. Cronin
Inbunden, 2000
1260 kr
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In recent years critics of Romantic poetry have divided into two groups that have little to say to one another. One group, as yet the most numerous, insists that to study a poem is to investigate the historical circumstances out of which it was produced; the other retorts that poetry offers …
1800: The New Lyrical Ballads
Inbunden, 2001
1511 kr
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Published to commemorate the bicentenary of the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1900), this collection gathers essays from ten leading British and American scholars to explore the distinctive originality of these famous volumes, and to analyse their lasting influence. With essays in cultural …
Thomas de Quincey
Knowledge and Power
Av F. Burwick
Inbunden, 2001
634 kr
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This book examines what De Quincey called 'psychological criticism', a mode of studying how 'literature of power' arouses ideas and images dormant in the subconscious. He explores this 'power' by means of an introspective analysis of the effects produced in his own mind by reading Shakespeare and …
Keats, Hunt and the Aesthetics of Pleasure
Inbunden, 2001
1260 kr
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This book tackles the age-old interpretative problem of 'pleasure' in Keat's poetry by placing him in the context of the liberal, leisured and luxurious culture of Hunt's circle. Challenging the standard narrative which attribute Keat's astonishing poetic development to his separation from Hunt, …
Romantic Idea of a University
England and Germany, 1770-1850
Häftad, 2001
634 kr
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By the late eighteenth century, universities in England and Germany had lost their sense of purpose. The romantics then presented them with a new one, a new Idea of a university. In Germany, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and others stressed that universities must teach more effectively; in England, …
Cultural Politics in the 1790s
Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere
Av A. McCann
Häftad, 1999
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Cultural Politics in the 1790s examines the relationship between sentimental literature, political activism and the public sphere at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on critical theorists such as Habermas, Negt and Kluge, Marcuse and Foucault, it attempts to demonstrate how major literary …
Romanticism and Male Fantasy in Byron’s Don Juan
A Marketable Vice
Av C. Donelan
Häftad, 2000
1260 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Don Juan , Byron's best poem, is a sensational radical satire. It uses the legend of Don Juan to expose the male fantasies behind Romanticism and nineteenth-century public culture. Critics feared that the poem was a 'manual for vice' and would corrupt society. Should England's best selling author …
