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Poetry of Mary Robinson
Form and Fame
Av D. Robinson
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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Once celebrated as 'the English Sappho,' Mary Robinson was a major figure in British Romanticism. This volume offers comprehensive study of Robinson's achievement as a poet, a professional writer, a formative influence on the Romantic movement, and a participant in the literary, political, and …
Romanticism and Pleasure
Av T. Schmid
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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In this text nine scholars discuss the aesthetics, culture, and science of pleasure in the Romantic period. Richard Sha, Denise Gigante, and Anya Taylor, among others, make a timely contribution to recent debates about issues of pleasure, taste, and appetite by looking anew at the work of figures …
Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism
Toward Urbanatural Roosting
Av A. Nichols
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about …
Jewish Representation in British Literature 1780-1840
After Shylock
Av M. Scrivener
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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Describing Jewish representation by Jews and Gentiles in the British Romantic era from the Old Bailey courtroom and popular songs to novels, poetry, and political pamphlets, Scrivener integrates popular culture with belletristic writing to explore the wildly varying treatments of stereotypical …
Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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Through politics, religion and his relationship with Wordsworth, the book builds to a new interpretation of the poems where Coleridge's daemonic imagination produces its myths: The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel . Re-reading the origins of Romanticism, Leadbetter reveals a Coleridge at …
Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain
Av C. Simmons
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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Through the consideration of canonical authors such as Blake, Scott, and Wordsworth and of lesser-studied works such as radical press writings and popular drama, this study explores the imaginative appeal of the social structures and literary forms of the Middle Ages, and how they raised awareness …
Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America
Av S. Wolosky
Inbunden, 2010
634 kr
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Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America explores nineteenth-century poetry as it addresses and engages in the major concerns of American cultural life. Focusing on gender, biblical politics, Revolutionary discourses and racial, sectional, and religious identities, this book …
Discourses of Food in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Av A. Cozzi
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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The book offers readings of discourses about food in a wide range of sources, from canonical Victorian novels by authors such as Dickens, Gaskell, and Hardy to parliamentary speeches, royal proclamations, and Amendment Acts. It considers the cultural politics and poetics of food in relation to …
John Thelwall in the Wordsworth Circle
The Silenced Partner
Av J. Thompson
Inbunden, 2012
634 kr
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In this book, Judith Thompson restores a powerful but long-suppressed voice to our understanding of British Romanticism. Drawing on newly discovered archives, this book offers the first full-length study of the poetry of John Thelwallas well as his partnership with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and …
Trauma, Transcendence, and Trust
Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot Thinking Loss
Av T. Brennan
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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Thomas Brennan finds roots of the 'sensibility of trauma' by returning to the work of Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot. By reading these poets of mourning through the framework of trauma, Brennan reflects on our traumatized moment and weighs two potential responses - the fantasy of transcendence and …
Romantic Dharma
The Emergence of Buddhism into Nineteenth-Century Europe
Av M. Lussier
Inbunden, 2011
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Romantic Dharma maps the emergence of Buddhism into European consciousness during the first half of the nineteenth century, probes the shared ethical and intellectual commitments embedded in Buddhist and Romantic thought, and proposes potential ways by which those insights translate into …
Romanticism and the City
Av L. Peer
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broad theoretical issues in European Romanticism at large.
Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin
The Way of the Argument from Design
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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Discusses crucial moments in the historical development of natural theology in England from the time of Francis Bacon to that of Charles Darwin. While the argument from design remains the rhetorical method of choice for natural theologians throughout the three centuries in question, the locus and …
Business of Literary Circles in Nineteenth-Century America
Av D. Dowling
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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This comprehensive study ranges from Irving's Knickerbockers, Emerson's Transcendentalists, and Garrison's abolitionists to the popular serial fiction writers for Robert Bonner's New York Ledger to unearth surprising convergences between such seemingly disparate circles.
British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Av S. Schmid
Inbunden, 2013
634 kr
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British salons, with guests such as Byron, Moore, and Thackeray, were veritable hothouses of political and cultural agitation. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - Schmid paints a vivid picture of the …
Dante and Italy in British Romanticism
Av F. Burwick, Professor Burwick, Frederick m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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From the artistic practice of improvisation to the politics of nationalism, the essays in this volume break new ground and significantly extend our understanding of the relations between British and Italian culture in its analysis of the reception of Dante and Italian literature in British …
Robert Southey
History, Politics, Religion
Av S. Andrews
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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In Robert Southey , Andrews argues that Robert Southey's denunciation of global Catholicism is essential to understanding his life, works, and times. On this issue, Southey was absolutely consistent in all his work and the Poet Laureate's partisan rhetoric reveals much about the religious culture …
Playing to the Crowd
London Popular Theatre, 1780-1830
Av F. Burwick
Inbunden, 2011
568 kr
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The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities.
Wordsworth and Coleridge
Promising Losses
Av P. Larkin
Inbunden, 2012
634 kr
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Wordsworth and Coleridge: Promising Losses assembles essays spanning the last thirty years, including a selection of Peter Larkin's original verse, with the concept of promise and loss serving as the uniting narrative thread.
Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation
Poetry, Philosophy, Science
Av R. Brantley
Inbunden, 2013
634 kr
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Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation is a comprehensive account of Emily Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life. Contrary to the image of the isolated poet, this ambitious study reveals Dickinson's agile mind developing through conversation with a community of contemporaries.
Sublime Coleridge
The Opus Maximum
Av M. Evans
Inbunden, 2012
634 kr
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Sublime Coleridge focuses on the role of the Opus Maximum in explaining Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ideas about religion, psychology, and the sublime. This book is an introduction, a reader's guide, and an interpretation of this central text in British Romanticism.
Byron
Heritage and Legacy
Av C. Wilson
Inbunden, 2009
634 kr
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This exciting collection represents a range of scholarly approaches and include close textual study, comparative readings, and broad cultural analysis. Contributors to this collection include Bernard Beatty, Peter Cochran, Marilyn Gaull, Charles E. Robinson, Andrew Stauffer, and Timothy Webb.
British Victorian Women's Periodicals
Beauty, Civilization, and Poetry
Av K. Ledbetter
Inbunden, 2009
634 kr
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Ledbetter explores themes and patterns of poetry publication in a variety of women's periodicals published throughout the Victorian era using taste, style and the significance of poetry to advance our understanding of women's lives in the nineteenth century.
Coleridge, the Bible, and Religion
Inbunden, 2008
634 kr
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Barbeau reconstructs the system of religion that Coleridge develops in Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1840). Coleridge's late system links four sources of divinity the Bible, the traditions of the church, the interior work of the Spirit, and the inspired preacher to Christ, the Word. In …
Romantic Migrations
Local, National, and Transnational Dispositions
Av M. Wiley
Inbunden, 2008
634 kr
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Analyzing real, speculative, and imaginary schemes of migration to and from Britain, this book addresses three interrelated movements: between France and Britain after the French Revolution, between Britain and North America also after the Revolution, and between West Africa and Britain in the …
Romantic Literary Families
Av S. Krawczyk
Inbunden, 2009
634 kr
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The late eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of the literary family: a collaborative kinship network of family and friends that, by the end of the century, displayed characteristics of a nascent corporation. This book examines different models of collaboration within English literary …
British Periodicals and Romantic Identity
The "Literary Lower Empire"
Inbunden, 2009
634 kr
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When Lord Byron identified the periodical industry as the "Literary Lower Empire," he registered the cultural clout that periodicals had accumulated by positioning themselves as both the predominant purveyors of scientific, economic, and social information and the arbiters of literary and artistic …
Romantic Diasporas: French Émigrés, British Convicts, and Jews
Av T. Benis
Inbunden, 2009
634 kr
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Romantic Diasporasexamines exile in the Romantic period fromthe different perspectives of French émigrés in England, British convicts transported to Australia, and Jews in their perennial diaspora.
Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print
Belgravia and Sensationalism
Av A. Gabriele
Inbunden, 2009
634 kr
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Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print: Belgravia and Sensationalism is a comprehensive study of the whole run of the monthly periodical Belgravia under the direction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It traces the material history of the magazine, its production and global distribution while at the …
Victorian Medicine and Social Reform
Florence Nightingale among the Novelists
Av L. Penner
Inbunden, 2010
1260 kr
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Victorian Medicine and Social Reform traces Florence Nightingale s career as a reformer and Crimean war heroine. Her fame as a social activist and her writings including Notes on Nursing and Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army influenced …
