Author : E. Simpson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230593984
This book argues that Romantic-era writers used the figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social, responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone genius. Simpson highlights the centrality of the minstrel to many important literary developments from the Romantic era through to the 1840s.
Author : A. Rudd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230306004
India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain.
Author : Jeff Strabone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319952552
This book offers a radical new theory of the role of poetry in the rise of cultural nationalism. With equal attention to England, Scotland, and Wales, the book takes an Archipelagic approach to the study of poetics, print media, and medievalism in the rise of British Romanticism. It tells the story of how poets and antiquarian editors in the British nations rediscovered forgotten archaic poetic texts and repurposed them as the foundation of a new concept of the nation, now imagined as a primarily cultural formation. It also draws on legal and ecclesiastical history in drawing a sharp contrast between early modern and Romantic antiquarianisms. Equally a work of literary criticism and history, the book offers provocative new theorizations of nationalism and Romanticism and new readings of major British poets, including Allan Ramsay, Thomas Gray, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Author : Erik Simpson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2010-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0748636455
In Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830, Erik Simpson proposes the mercenary as a meeting point of psychological, national, and ideological issues that connected the severed nations of Britain and America following the American Revolution.When writers treat the figure of the mercenary in literary works, the general issues of incentive, independence, and national service become intertwined with two of the well-known social developments of the period: an increased ability of young people to choose their spouses and the shift from patronage to commercial, market-based support of authorship. While the slave, a traditional focus of transatlantic studies, troubles the rhetoric of liberty through a lack of autonomy and consent, the mercenary raises questions about liberty by embodying its excess. Simpson argues that the mercenary of popular imagination takes monstrous advantage of modern freedoms by contracting away the ostensibly natural and foundational bonds of civil society.Substan
Author : April London
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230283330
This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print culture.
Author : I. Csengei
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230359175
What makes it possible for self-interest, cruelty and violence to become part of the benevolent, compassionate ideology of eighteenth-century sensibility? This book explores forms of emotional response, including sympathy, tears, swoons and melancholia through a range of eighteenth-century literary, philosophical and scientific texts.
Author : Emrys Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137300507
Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue.
Author : J. Gardner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 023030737X
This book provides provocative information on poetry written in response to the most revolutionary set of events seen in Britain since the 1640s: 'Peterloo', a peaceful protest that became a massacre; 'Cato Street', a government scripted rebellion; and the 'Queen Caroline Controversy', when the estranged wife of George IV tried to claim her crown.
Author : Frederick Burwick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1767 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405188103
The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature is an authoritative three-volume reference work that covers British artistic, literary, and intellectual movements between 1780 and 1830, within the context of European, transatlantic and colonial historical and cultural interaction. Comprises over 275 entries ranging from 1,000 to 6,500 words arranged in A-Z format across three fully cross-referenced volumes Written by an international cast of leading and emerging scholars Entries explore genre development in prose, poetry, and drama of the Romantic period, key authors and their works, and key themes Also available online as part of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature, providing 24/7 access and powerful searching, browsing and cross-referencing capabilities
Author : J. Labbe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230306144
What is 'Wordsworthian' Romanticism and how did it evolve? This book argues that only by reading Charlotte Smith's poetry in tandem with William Wordsworth's can this question be answered, demonstrating their mutual contribution to the creation of the 'Wordsworthian', through literary analysis and historical contextualizing of their writings.
