Author : Patrick Vincent
Publisher :
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108497063
Examining Romanticism's pan-European circulation of people, ideas, and texts, this history re-analyses the period and Britain's place in it.
Author : Michael Ferber
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405154535
This companion is the first book of its kind to focus on the whole of European Romanticism. Describes the way in which the Romantic Movement swept across Europe in the early nineteenth century. Covers the national literatures of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and Spain. Addresses common themes that cross national borders, such as orientalism, Napoleon, night, nature, and the prestige of the fragment. Includes cross-disciplinary essays on literature and music, literature and painting, and the general system of Romantic arts. Features 35 essays in all, from leading scholars in America, Australia, Britain, France, Italy, and Switzerland.
Author : Olivia Ferguson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009274260
A counter-intuitive history of literary caricature, exploring how caricature helped make the realist novel in the Romantic period.
Author : Ann C. Colley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009271725
When Coleridge described the landscapes he passed through while scrambling among the fells, mountains, and valleys of Britain, he did something unprecedented in Romantic writing: to capture what emerged before his eyes, he enlisted a geometric idiom. Immersed in a culture still beholden to Euclid's Elements and schooled by those who subscribed to its principles, he valued geometry both for its pragmatic function and for its role as a conduit to abstract thought. Indeed, his geometric training would often structure his observations on religion, aesthetics, politics, and philosophy. For Coleridge, however, this perspective never competed with his sensitivity to the organic nature of his surroundings but, rather, intermingled with it. Situating Coleridge's remarkable ways of seeing within the history and teaching of mathematics and alongside the eighteenth century's budding interest in non-Euclidean geometry, Ann Colley illuminates the richness of the culture of walking and the surprising potential of landscape writing.
Author : Catherine Packham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 100939584X
A compelling new account of Wollstonecraft as incisive critic of the material, moral, and psychological conditions of commercial modernity.
Author : Matthew Leporati
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 38,14 MB
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009285181
A lively account of the Romantic-era revival of epic literature set against the background of British imperialism's evangelical turn.
Author : Tim Fulford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009320793
"Experimentalism in Wordsworth's Later Poetry Tim Fulford provides detailed readings of a range of little-known, late and difficult poems which together present an alternative Wordsworth to the one we are used to. This newly-revealed Wordsworth continued experimenting with form, genre and style as his career progressed so as to ponder the challenging experiences presented by later life. Fulford invites the reader to engage, through Wordsworth's poetry, with such broadly-felt concerns as quarantine, isolation, mental illness and bereavement. Focused yet broad in chronological scope, this study also considers the literature of Wordsworth's old age in relation to his earlier work. Tim Fulford is the author of many books and articles on the literature and history of the Romantic Period (1780-1840), and is the editor of The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (2022). His monograph Wordsworth's Poetry 1815-45 (2019) won the Robert Penn Warren/Cleanth Brooks Award for Literary Scholarship 2020. His edition The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy (co-edited with Sharon Ruston) (2020) won an honourable mention in the MLA biennial Morton N. Cohen Award For A Distinguished Edition Of Letters"--
Author : Wendy Bracewell
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 36,84 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 6155211760
Excerpts from over 100 travel writings of Europe, from 16th c. pilgrimage diaries thru early specimens of modern tourism accounts to 20th c. impressions from the other side of the Iron Curtain By focusing on east European travel writings, this work enlarges both the documentary base and the terms of the debate over a rich source for discussions of identities and mentalities; knowledge and power; gender; and cultural change. The texts – chosen for their relevance, but literary criteria have also been taken into account – illustrate the variety of ways in which east Europeans have written about the West. Most of the material is presented in English for the first time or, in a few cases, rescued from dusty oblivion in long out-of-print volumes. Each text is introduced with a short passage placing it in context. This is the first volume of the three-part set East Looks West. Vol. 2. Under Eastern Eyes. A Comparative Introduction to East European Travel Writing on Europe, 1550–2000; Vol. 3. A Bibliography of East European Travel Writing on Europe.
Author : Hannah Doherty Hudson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 35,7 MB
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009321919
Jane Austen's ironic reference to 'the trash with which the press now groans' is only one of innumerable Romantic complaints about fiction's newly overwhelming presence. This book draws on evidence from over one hundred Romantic novels to explore the changes in publishing, reviewing, reading, and writing that accompanied the unprecedented growth in novel publication during the Romantic period. With particular focus on the infamous Minerva Press, the most prolific fiction-producer of the age, Hannah Hudson puts its popular authors in dialogue with writers such as Walter Scott, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth, and William Godwin. Using paratextual materials including reviews, advertisements, and authorial prefaces, this book establishes the ubiquity of Romantic anxieties about literary 'excess', showing how beliefs about fictional overproduction created new literary hierarchies. Ultimately, Hudson argues that this so-called excess was a driving force in fictional experimentation and the advertising and publication practices that shaped the genre's reception. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author : Evy Varsamopoulou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1003808697
Romantic Futures is a collection which explores the significance of futurity in British Romanticism from a comparative perspective in three defining manifestations: the future as conscious legacy, by which is meant both influences or continuities and the (anticipations of) impact on the future; the future as revealed by prophecy, whether via religious figures or superstitions; and a meditation on the temporality of the future, or the future as a concept. The book brings together a wide range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives: from utopian studies, history, religion, and cultural theory to future studies, neuroscience, video games, and art history. Aiming to increase and diversify current critical engagement and highlight the contemporary relevance of the Romantics’ multivalent preoccupation with the future, this collection renews the dialogue between Romanticism and our critical relation to its contemporaneity, especially as it speaks to current understandings of the future in the sciences, arts, and humanities.
