Poetic Form And British Romanticism

Author : Stuart Curran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195363012

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Poetic Form and British Romanticism by Stuart Curran Pdf

Across Europe, and particularly in Great Britain, the Romantic age coincided with a large-scale revival of lost literatures and the first attempts to create a coherent history of Western literature. Calling into question that history, Stuart Curran demonstrates that the Romantic poets, far from being indifferent or hostile to popular forms of literature were actually obsessed with them as repositories of literary conventions and conveyors of implicit ideological value. Whether in their proccupation with fixed forms, which resulted in the incomparable artistry of Romantic odes, or in their rethinking of major genres like the pastoral, the epic, and the romance, the Romantic poets transformed every element they touched to suit their own democratic, secular and skeptical ethos--a world view recognizably modern in its dimensions.

Author : A. Rawes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230206144

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Romanticism and Form by A. Rawes Pdf

This book offers new analyzes of canonical texts, contextualizations of Romantic forms in relation to war, nationalism and empire, reassessments of neglected and marginalized writers and explorations of the relationship between form and reader. It showcases a range of new approaches that are informed by deconstruction, theology and new technology.

Author : Stephen C. Behrendt
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801895081

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British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing Community by Stephen C. Behrendt Pdf

Approaching the work of Romantic-era British women poets through the lenses of public radicalism, war, and poetic form. This compelling study recovers the lost lives and poems of British women poets of the Romantic era. Stephen C. Behrendt reveals the range and diversity of their writings, offering new perspectives on the work of dozens of women whose poetry has long been ignored or marginalized in traditional literary history. British Romanticism was once thought of as a cultural movement defined by a small group of male poets. This book grants women poets their proper place in the literary tradition of the time. In an approach ripe for classroom teaching, Behrendt first reviews the subject thematically, exploring the ways in which the poems addressed both public concerns and private experiences. He next examines the use of particular genres, including the sonnet and various other long and short forms. In the concluding chapters, Behrendt explores the impact of national identity, providing the first extensive study of Romantic-era poetry by women from Scotland and Ireland. In recovering the lives and work of these women, Behrendt reveals their active participation within the rich cultural community of writers and readers throughout the British Isles. This study will be a key resource for scholars, teachers, and students in British literary studies, women’s studies, and cultural history.

Author : Susan J. Wolfson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : English poetry
ISBN : OCLC:1285563355

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Formal Charges by Susan J. Wolfson Pdf

Why care about poetic form and its intricacies, other than in nostalgia for a bygone era of criticism? The purpose of this book is to refresh today this care for criticism, applying a historically aware formalist reading to poetic form in Romanticism and showing how in theory and practice Romantic writers addressed, debated, tested, and contested fundamental questions about what is at stake in the poetic forming of language. In the process, it suggests the importance of these conflicted inquiries for contemporary critical discussion and demonstrates the pleasures of attending to the complex changes of form in poetic writing.

Author : David Duff
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191610202

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Romanticism and the Uses of Genre by David Duff Pdf

This wide-ranging and original book reappraises the role of genre, and genre theory, in British Romanticism. Analyzing numerous examples from 1760 to 1830, David Duff examines the generic innovations and experiments which propel the Romantic 'revolution in literature', but also the fascination with archaic forms such as the ballad, sonnet, and romance, whose revival and transformation make Romanticism a 'retro' movement as well as a revolutionary one. The tension between the drives to 'make it old' and to 'make it new' generates one of the most dynamic phases in the history of literature, whose complications are played out in the critical writing of the period as well as its creative literature. Incorporating extensive research on classification systems and reception history as well as on literary forms themselves, Romanticism and the Uses of Genre demonstrates how new ideas about the role and status of genre influenced not only authors but also publishers, editors, reviewers, and readers. The focus is on poetry, but a wider spectrum of genres is considered, a central theme being the relationship - hierarchical, competitive, combinatory - between genres. Among the topics addressed are generic primitivism and forgery; Enlightenment theory and the 'cognitive turn'; the impact of German transcendental aesthetics; organic and anti-organic form; the role of genre in the French Revolution debate; the poetics of the fragment; and the theory and practice of genre-mixing. Unprecedented in its scope and detail, this important book establishes a new way of reading Romantic literature which brings into focus for the first time its tangled relationship with genre.

Author : Carmen Faye Mathes
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781503631755

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Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation by Carmen Faye Mathes Pdf

Critics have long understood the development of Romantic aesthetics as a turning point in the history of literary theory, a turn that is responsible for theories of mind and body that continue to inform our understandings of subjectivity and embodiment today. Yet the question of what aesthetic experience can "do" grates against the fact that much Romantic writing represents subjects as not actually in charge of the feelings they feel, the dreams they dream, or the actions they take. In response to this dilemma, Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation argues that being moved contrary to one's will is itself an aesthetic phenomenon explored by Romantic poets whose experiments with poetic form and genre provoke unanticipated feelings through verse. By analyzing how Romantic poets intervene, affectively and aesthetically, in readerly expectations of form and genre, Mathes shows how provocations disrupt and invite, disturb and compel—interrupting or suspending or retreating in ways that ask readers to orient themselves, materially and socially, in relation to literary experiences that are at once virtual and embodied. Examining the formal tactics of Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, alongside their reactions to historical events such as Toussaint Louverture's revolt and the Peterloo Massacre, Mathes reveals that an aesthetics of radical openness is central to the development of literary theory and criticism in Romantic Britain.

Author : J. Robinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403982834

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Unfettering Poetry by J. Robinson Pdf

This book calls attention to the pervasive but largely unacknowledged poetics of the 'Fancy' evident in poetry written during the British Romantic period. These poetics, Robinson demonstrates, are an early nineteenth-century version of what will become the visionary, experimental, open-form poetics of the twentieth-century.

Author : James Chandler,Maureen N. McLane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1335725368

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The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry by James Chandler,Maureen N. McLane Pdf

More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical contexts. The essays consider its metrical, formal, and linguistic features; its relation to history; its influence on other genres; its reflections of empire and nationalism, both within and outside the British Isles; and the various implications of oral transmission and the rapid expansion of print culture and mass readership. Attention is given to the work of less well-known or recently rediscovered authors, alongside the achievements of some of the greatest poets in the English language: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Clare.

Author : Susan J. Wolfson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804726574

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Formal Charges by Susan J. Wolfson Pdf

Winner of the Book Prize of the American Conference on Romanticism

Author : Maureen N. McLane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827904

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The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry by Maureen N. McLane Pdf

More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical contexts. The essays consider its metrical, formal, and linguistic features; its relation to history; its influence on other genres; its reflections of empire and nationalism, both within and outside the British Isles; and the various implications of oral transmission and the rapid expansion of print culture and mass readership. Attention is given to the work of less well-known or recently rediscovered authors, alongside the achievements of some of the greatest poets in the English language: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Clare.

Author : Jacqueline Labbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317314400

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Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism by Jacqueline Labbe Pdf

Charlotte Smith's early sonnets established the genre as a Romantic form; her novels advanced sensibility beyond its reliance on emotional facility; and her blank verse initiated one of the most familiar of Romantic verse forms. This volume draws together the best of current scholarship.

Author : Simon Bainbridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521473365

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Napoleon and English Romanticism by Simon Bainbridge Pdf

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 aesthetic positions. In this first ever full-length study of Romantic writers' obsession with Napoleon, Simon Bainbridge focuses on the writings of the Lake poets Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, and of Byron and Hazlitt. Combining detailed analyses of specific texts with broader historical and theoretical approaches, and illustrating his argument with the visual evidence of contemporary cartoons, Bainbridge shows how Romantic writers constructed, appropriated, and contested different Napoleons as a crucial part of their sustained and partisan engagement in the political and cultural debates of the day.

Author : Franca Dellarosa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8842082457

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Poetic and Dramatic Forms in British Romanticism by Franca Dellarosa Pdf

Author : Charles Mahoney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444390643

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A Companion to Romantic Poetry by Charles Mahoney Pdf

Through a series of 34 essays by leading and emerging scholars, A Companion to Romantic Poetry reveals the rich diversity of Romantic poetry and shows why it continues to hold such a vital and indispensable place in the history of English literature. Breaking free from the boundaries of the traditionally-studied authors, the collection takes a revitalized approach to the field and brings together some of the most exciting work being done at the present time Emphasizes poetic form and technique rather than a biographical approach Features essays on production and distribution and the different schools and movements of Romantic Poetry Introduces contemporary contexts and perspectives, as well as the issues and debates that continue to drive scholarship in the field Presents the most comprehensive and compelling collection of essays on British Romantic poetry currently available

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401202312

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British Romanticism and Italian Literature by Anonim Pdf

Drawing on a long-standing tradition of fictional images, British writers of the Romantic period defined and constructed Italy as a land that naturally invites inscription and description. In their works, Italy is a cultural geography so heavily overwritten with discourse that it becomes the natural recipient of further fictional transformations. If critics have frequently attended to this figurative complex and its related Italophilia, what seems to have been left relatively unexplored is the fact that these representations were paralleled and sustained by intense scholarly activities. This volume specifically addresses Romantic-period scholarship about Italian literature, history, and culture under the interconnected rubrics of ‘translating’, ‘reviewing’, and ‘rewriting’. The essays in this book consider this rich field of scholarly activity in order to redraw its contours and examine its connections with the fictional images of Italy and the general fascination with this land and its civilization that are a crucial component of British culture between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.