Romanticism and the object / edited by Larry H. Peer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peer, Larry H.

Series:

Nineteenth-century major lives and letters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--18th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

Symbolism in literature.

Object (Philosophy) in literature.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

Why are material object so prominent in European Romantic literature, both as symbol and organizing device? This collection of essays maintains that European Romantic Culture and its aesthetic artifacts were fundamentally shaped by "object aesthetics," an artistic idiom of acknowledging, through a profound and often disruptive use of objects, the movement of Western aesthetic practice into Romantic self-projection and imagination. Of course Romanticism, in all its dissonance and anxiety, is marked by a number of new artistic practices, all of which make up a new aesthetics, accounting for the dialectical and symbolistic view of literature that began in the late eighteenth century. Romanticism and the Object adds to our understanding of that aesthetics by reexamining a wide range of texts in order to discover how the use of objects works in the literature of the time.

Contents:

Introduction : Romanticizing the object / Larry H. Peer

"Things forever speaking" and "Objects of all thought" / Marilyn Gaull

"Perfectly compatible objects" : Mr. Pitt contemplates Britain and South America / Jocelyn M. Almeida

Children as subject and object : Shelley v. Westbrook / Lisbeth Chapin

"I'll contrive a sylvan room" : certainty and indeterminacy in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head, the Fables and Other Poems (1807) / Mark K. Fulk

"A better guide in ourselves" : objects, Romantic-Protestant ethics, and Fanny Price's individualism / Rodney Farnsworth

Literal and literary circulation of Amelia Curran's portrait of Percy Shelley / Diane Long Hoeveler

Shelley incinerated / Michael Gamer

Keats and the impersonal craft of writing / Magdalena M. Ostas

"Tun'd to hymns of perfect love" : the Anglican liturgy as Romantic object in John Keble's The Christian Year / Chene Heady

Journeys to the East : Shelley and Novalis / Wiliam S. Davis

Weighing it again / Charles J. Rzepka.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230617384

0230617387

OCLC:

316829485