The Romantics And The May Day Tradition

Author : Essaka Joshua
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317017028

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The Romantics and the May Day Tradition by Essaka Joshua Pdf

This important contribution to both Romantic and cultural studies situates literature by Wordsworth, Southey, Hunt, Clare, and Blake within the context of folklore and popular customs associated with May Day. Romantic responses to May Day bring into focus a range of issues now regarded as central to the writing of the period - the natural world, city life, the pastoral, regional and national identities, popular culture, cultural degeneration, and cultural difference. Essaka Joshua explores new connections between these issues in the context of a set of heterogeneous cultural practices that are rooted in the traditions and activities of diverse social groups. She shows how Romantic writers have positioned themselves in relation to what has become known as the public sphere, and the way in which they articulate an understanding of the common sphere as a site of plebeian self-expression. Joshua's nuanced account acknowledges the full complexity of class formations and inter-class relationships and permits noncanonical and canonical texts such as the Prelude, Songs of Innocence and Experience, and 'The Village Minstrel' to be reinterpreted in a cultural context that has not been previously explored by literary critics.

Author : Jacqueline Dillion
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137503206

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Thomas Hardy: Folklore and Resistance by Jacqueline Dillion Pdf

This book reassesses Hardy’s fiction in the light of his prolonged engagement with the folklore and traditions of rural England. Drawing on wide research, it demonstrates the pivotal role played in the novels by such customs and beliefs as ‘overlooking’, hag-riding, skimmington-riding, sympathetic magic, mumming, bonfire nights, May Day celebrations, Midsummer divination, and the ‘Portland Custom’. This study shows how such traditions were lived out in practice in village life, and how they were represented in written texts – in literature, newspapers, county histories, folklore books, the work of the Folklore Society, archival documents, and letters. It explores tensions between Hardy’s repeated insistence on the authenticity of his accounts and his engagement with contemporary anthropologists and folklorists, and reveals how his efforts to resist their ‘excellently neat’ categories of culture open up wider questions about the nature of belief, progress, and social change.

Author : Celestina Savonius-Wroth
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030828554

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Visions of British Culture from the Reformation to Romanticism by Celestina Savonius-Wroth Pdf

This book is a major new contribution to the study of cultural identities in Britain and Ireland from the Reformation to Romanticism. It provides a fresh perspective on the rise of interest in British vernacular (or “folk”) cultures, which has often been elided with the emergence of British Romanticism and its Continental precursors. Here the Romantics’ discovery of and admiration for vernacular traditions is placed in a longer historical timeline reaching back to the controversies sparked by the Protestant Reformation. The book charts the emergence of a nuanced discourse about vernacular cultures, developing in response to the Reformers’ devastating attack on customary practices and beliefs relating to the natural world, seasonal festivities, and rites of passage. It became a discourse grounded in humanist Biblical and antiquarian scholarship; informed by the theological and pastoral problems of the long period of religious instability after the Reformation; and, over the course of the eighteenth century, colored by new ideas about culture drawn from Enlightenment historicism and empiricism. This study shows that Romantic literary primitivism and Romantic social thought, both radical and conservative, grew out of this rich context. It will be welcomed by historians of early modern and eighteenth-century Britain and those interested in the study of religious and vernacular cultures.

Author : Ian Waites,Alan Moore,Adam White,Simon J. White,Sarah Houghton-Walker,Eric Robinson,Robert Heyes,Donna Landry,Roy Vickery,M. M. Mahood,Essaka Joshua,Sam Ward
Publisher : John Clare Society
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780953899593

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John Clare Society Journal, 28 (2009) by Ian Waites,Alan Moore,Adam White,Simon J. White,Sarah Houghton-Walker,Eric Robinson,Robert Heyes,Donna Landry,Roy Vickery,M. M. Mahood,Essaka Joshua,Sam Ward Pdf

The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.

Author : Burwick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118893098

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Romanticism by Burwick Pdf

Compiles 70 of the key terms most frequently used or discussedby authors of the Romantic period – and most oftendeliberated by critics and literary historians of the era. Offers an indispensable resource for understanding the ideasand differing interpretations that shaped the Romantic period Includes keywords spanning Abolition and Allegory, throughMadness and Monsters, to Vision and Vampires Features in-depth descriptions of each entry’s directmeaning and connotations in relation to its usage and thought inliterary culture Provides deep insights into the political, social, and culturalclimate of one of the most expressive periods of Western literaryhistory Draws on the author’s extensive experience of teaching,lecturing, and writing on Romantic literature

Author : S. White
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137281791

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Romanticism and the Rural Community by S. White Pdf

The proper organisation of rural communities was central to political and social debates at the turn of the eighteenth century, and featured strongly in the 1790s political polemic that influenced so many Romantic poets and novelists. This book investigates the representation of the rural village and country town in a range of Romantic texts.

Author : A. Vardy
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0333966171

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John Clare, Politics and Poetry by A. Vardy Pdf

John Clare, Politics and Poetry challenges the traditional portrait of 'poor John Clare', the helpless victim of personal and professional circumstance. Clare's career has been presented as a disaster of editorial heavy-handedness, condescension, a poor market, and conservative patronage. Yet Clare was not a passive victim. This study explores the sources of the 'poor Clare' tradition, and recovers Clare's agency, revealing a writer fully engaged in his own professional life and in the social and political questions of the day.

Author : Peter Merchant,Catherine Waters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317151203

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Dickens and the Imagined Child by Peter Merchant,Catherine Waters Pdf

The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In Dickens and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens’s imagination and reflect on the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic. Part I of the collection examines the Dickensian child as both characteristic type and particular example, proposing a typology of the Dickensian child that is followed by discussions of specific children in Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House. Part II focuses on the relationship between childhood and memory, by examining the various ways in which the child’s-eye view was reabsorbed into Dickens’s mature sensibility. The essays in Part III focus upon reading and writing as particularly significant aspects of childhood experience; from Dickens’s childhood reading of tales of adventure, they move to discussion of the child readers in his novels and finally to a consideration of his own early writings alongside those that his children contributed to the Gad’s Hill Gazette. The collection therefore builds a picture of the remembered experiences of childhood being realised anew, both by Dickens and through his inspiring example, in the imaginative creations that they came to inform. While the protagonist of David Copperfield-that 'favourite child' among Dickens’s novels-comes to think of his childhood self as something which he 'left behind upon the road of life', for Dickens himself, leafing continually through his own back pages, there can be no putting away of childish things.

Author : Rodney P. Carlisle
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781412966702

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Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society by Rodney P. Carlisle Pdf

Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, January 2010 The Encyclopedia of Play: A Social History explores the concept of play in history and modern society in the United States and internationally. Its scope encompasses leisure and recreation activities of children as well as adults throughout the ages, from dice games in the Roman empire to video games today. As an academic social history, it includes the perspectives of several curricular disciplines, from sociology to child psychology, from lifestyle history to social epidemiology. This two-volume set will serve as a general, non-technical resource for students in education and human development, health and sports psychology, leisure and recreation studies and kinesiology, history, and other social sciences to understand the importance of play as it has developed globally throughout history and to appreciate the affects of play on child and adult development, particularly on health, creativity, and imagination.

Author : Michael Bradshaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137460646

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Disabling Romanticism by Michael Bradshaw Pdf

This book investigates the presence of disability in British Romantic literature, as subject matter, as metaphorical theme, and as lived experience. It is the first collection of its kind, breaking new ground in re-interpreting key texts and providing a challenging overview of this emerging field. The collection offers both a critique of academic Romantic studies and an affirmation of the responsiveness of the Romantic canon to new stimuli. Authors discussed include William Blake, Lord Byron, Ann Batten Cristall, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Darley, Richard Payne Knight, William Gilpin, Mary Robinson, Mary Shelley, Robert Southey, and William Wordsworth.

Author : Ian Haywood,Susan Matthews,Mary L. Shannon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108425711

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Romanticism and Illustration by Ian Haywood,Susan Matthews,Mary L. Shannon Pdf

Explores a vital aspect of British Romanticism, the role of illustration in Romantic-era literary texts and visual culture.

Author : Eric Hobsbawm,Terence Ranger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107604674

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The Invention of Tradition by Eric Hobsbawm,Terence Ranger Pdf

Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the origins of imperial rituals in British India and Africa; and the attempts by radical movements to develop counter-traditions of their own. It addresses the complex interaction of past and present, bringing together historians and anthropologists in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism which poses new questions for the understanding of our history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015091150964

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Blake by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCD:31175032888300

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Notes and Queries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015066381453

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf