Romanticism : an Oxford guide / edited by Nicholas Roe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roe, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

English literature.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Romanticism--Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Romanticism.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xxv, 743 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

"This book is a guide of the Romantic field. It includes 46 chapters offering background and contextual information with detailed readings of Romantic texts. The volume is divided into four parts - 'Romantic Orientations', 'Reading Romanticism', 'Romantic Forms' and 'Romantic Afterlives'" --Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Events 1

Then and now 2

Romantic history to Romantic literature 4

Wordsworth takes over 7

Romantic inheritances 8

Everything and nothing 8

Vanishings 9

Changes 10

Now and then 10

Part I Romantic orientations 13

1 The historical context / Simon Bainbridge 15

Revolution 15

War 17

Nationalism 20

Empire and slavery 22

Democracy, protest, and reform 23

2 The literary background / Jane Stabler 27

The sublime 27

Sensibility 29

Shakespeare 31

Satire 33

The south 35

3 Classical inheritances / Bruce E. Graver 38

The rise of historical criticism 39

Romantic Hellenism 41

Romantic pastoral 45

4 Sensibility / Adela Pinch 49

Cultural change 50

Philosophy and science 51

Politics 52

An international movement 54

Gender 55

Poetry 56

The novel 58

Web link 60

5 The visual arts and music / Stephen C. Behrendt 62

British art and Romanticism 64

John Constable and the characterization of nature 66

William Blake's interdisciplinary art 68

J. M. W. Turner and the directions of Romantic art 70

The caricature print 71

Some notes on sculpture 72

British music 73

'Popular' music 74

6 Print culture and the book trade / John Barnard 77

Radical publishing 78

New books 81

Libraries 83

Cheap print 85

Newspapers and periodicals 85

The reprint trade 86

Reading and writing: a case history 86

Readers 87

7 Science / Tim Fulford 90

Geology 91

Botany 92

Joseph Priestley and Humphry Davy 93

Medicine 96

Race 97

Astronomy 98

Technology 99

'Scientist' 99

8 Philosophy and religion / Alan Gregory 102

Immanuel Kant 103

Schleiermacher and the experience of religion 104

Beyond understanding: Coleridge on the imagination 106

Shelley: after Jupiter 108

Enthusiasm: the witness of the spirit 109

9 England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales / Fiona Stafford 114

Crossing borders 116

The influence of England 118

The power of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales 121

10 Europe / Christoph Bode 126

The continental scene-Germany 128

France 130

Spain and Italy 131

Poland and Russia 133

Family likenesses and the unity of opposites 134

11 Easts / Nigel Leask 137

The great map of mankind 138

Orientalism: theory and history 138

Eighteenth-century orientalism and Sir William Jones 140

Desire and quest romance 144

Oriental infections 146

12 Americas / Susan Manning 149

The promise of the new 150

British Romanticism in America 150

Romantic exploration 151

American utopias 152

Transcendentalism and its antagonists 154

New World Gothic 156

Encountering others 158

History and romance 159

Part II Reading Romanticism 163

13 New Historicism / Kenneth R. Johnston 165

Definitions, origins, and problems 166

The characteristics of current New Historicism 167

A short backwards history of Romantic New Historicism 171

Reading: William Wordsworth, 'Tintern Abbey' 176

14 Feminism / Anne K. Mellor 182

History 182

Themes 185

Reading: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice 193

15 Ecology / James C. McKusick 199

Ecological approaches to British Romantic literature 200

The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 201

Green language: Robert Bloomfield and John Clare 203

The return of the nightingale: Charlotte Smith and John Keats 205

The end of nature: William Blake, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron 207

The Romantic origins of environmentalism 209

Reading: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere' 211

16 Psychoanalysis / Andrew Michael Roberts 219

Knowledge 220

Desire 223

Fantasy 225

Self 227

Reading: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus 230

17 Post-colonialism / Deirdre Coleman 237

What does 'post-colonial' mean? 239

Slavery and the Romantic imagination 241

Bringing slavery home 243

Domesticity and empire 246

Reading: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 249

18 Formalism / Richard Cronin 257

Were the Romantics formalists? 258

Form and power: the case of the sonnet 261

The Coleridgean solution 264

Part III Romantic forms 273

19 Romantic forms: an introduction / Michael O'Neill 275

Romantic epic (and a note on Romantic fragments) 276

Drama 279

Lyric 281

Poetic narrative, including romance 283

Gender and genre in Romantic poetry 285

20 The sonnet / David Fairer 292

The sonnet form and its development 293

The sonnet revival 294

The sonnet, sensibility, and the self 296

Friendship and the heart 298

The public voice of liberty 299

Strength and stillness 301

21 Lyric / Paul D. Sheats 310

Broadening possibilities 311

The resonant lyre 311

Language in action: lyric as drama 313

Vision quests 315

Representing the self 318

Lyric communities 320

22 Epic / Lynda Pratt 332

What is an epic? 333

A short history of epic 334

Epic revival 335

Diversity 337

Gender 338

Politics 339

Ambivalence 341

Reading: John Keats, Hyperion 345

23 Narrative poetry / Peter Vassallo 350

Narrative revival 350

Byron's poetic 'romaunt' 353

'The Italian strain' 354

Leigh Hunt's The Story of Rimini 357

The Orient 358

Reading: John Keats, Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil 362

24 The novel / Corinna Russell 368

Origins and directions 371

Genre and subgenres 375

The narrator in the Romantic-period novel 377

25 Satire / Steven E. Jones 390

Novels and prose satires 390

The theatre 393

Reviews and pamphlets 394

Graphic prints 397

Poetry 398

Reading: Lord Byron, Don Juan 401

26 Romantic drama / Judith Pascoe 409

The repertoire 411

Joanna Baillie's Plays on the Passions 412

The pursuit of novelty 413

The theatres 415

Star turns 416

Reading: Elizabeth Craven, The Miniature Picture 418

27 Essays, newspapers, and magazines / William Christie 426

Newspapers 427

Magazines 429

The periodical essay 433

Reading: William Hazlitt, 'My First Acquaintance with Poets' 437

28 Biography and autobiography / Anthony Harding 445

Social, economic, and cultural context 446

Individualism, natural rights, and life-writing 448

Biography: lives in contention 449

Autobiography: confession, self-exploration, self-making 452

The centrality of life-writing in the Romantic period 454

Reading: William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 456

29 Romance / Greg Kucich 463

The origins of romance 464

The progress of romance 467

The Romanticism in romance 470

30 Gothic / Nicola Trott 482

Gothic nationalism 482

Gothic aesthetic 483

Gothic (anti-)modernity 484

Gothic (anti-)rationality 485

Gothic taboos 487

Gothic genres 488

Gothic criticism 489

31 The fragment / Sophie Thomas 502

Fragments, fashion, and fakery 503

The ruin and the unfinished 504

Aesthetic and antiquarian contexts 507

Responses 508

Form or genre? 510

The afterlife of the Romantic fragment 512

Reading: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Kubla Khan' 514

32 Forgeries / Debbie Lee 521

Poetic forgeries 522

Medical hoaxes 524

Travel lies 526

Exotic others 528

Reading: John Hatfield and the Lake Poets 531

33 Non-fictional prose / John Whale 538

Aesthetics and politics: politics and aesthetics 541

Edmund Burke's Reflections 541

Responses to Burke 542

Reading discursively 545

34 Travel writing / Carl Thompson 555

A 'tour-writing and tour-publishing age' 557

Explorers: the business of scientific discovery 560

Survivors, missionaries, and other travellers 562

Romanticism and Romantic-era travel writing 562

Travel writing and Romantic-era literature 564

Reading: Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa 567

35 Letters,

journals, and diaries / Nichola Deane 574

Popular myths and images 575

Critical problems 577

Letter-writing 579

Journals, diaries, and notebooks 580

Part IV Romantic afterlives 591

36 Literary criticism and theory / Seamus Perry 593

The fascination of what's natural 593

Feeling and wonder 595

Ordinary language 598

Egotism and imagination 600

Current questions 603

37 Poetry / Charles J. Rzepka 607

Plain style: Robert Frost 608

Wordsworth and Anglo-American modernism 609

The Anglophone world 611

On his native shores 612

Two second selves: Charles Tomlinson and Elizabeth Bishop 613

Recompenses 616

38 The nineteenth- and twentieth-century novel / Michael Herbert 620

The Brontes 621

The American tradition: Moby-Dick 623

D. H. Lawrence 626

39 Film / Jerrold E. Hogle 631

The Romantic poem on screen 632

Romantic film biography 633

Films on the birth of a Romantic classic 635

Filming the origins of Romanticism 638

40 The theatre / Julie A. Carlson 642

Upstaging Prometheus 643

Lord, Byron 646

Hideous stage progeny: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus 648

Afterlife now: Romanticism unbound; or 'cut' 650

41 The idea of the author / Andrew Bennett 654

Lives of the poets 655

Inventing the author 657

Posterity 658

Genius, originality, inspiration 659

Craze 661

42 Modernism and postmodernity / Edward Larrissy 665

Modernist debts to Romanticism 666

Modern Romantics 668

Later Romantics 669

Modern constructions of Romanticism 670

Postmodernity and postmodernism 671

43 Politics / Peter J. Kitson 675

A Romantic ideology? 675

A green Romanticism? 676

Radicals or reactionaries? 677

Nationalism, imperialism, and orientalism 680

Romanticism and racism 682

44 Sciences / Marilyn Gaull 686

Normal science 687

Geology 688

Astronomy 691

Sciences of life 692

45 Environmentalism / Timothy Morton 696

The Romantic legacy 696

Industrial society and its discontents 697

Romantic consumerism, green consumerism 701

Ecological criticism 702

46 Romanticism in the electronic age / David S. Miall 708

Text analysis 709

Digital editions 711

Text encoding 714

Romanticism on the Internet 714

Learning how 716.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0199258406

OCLC:

56880256