Urbanization and English Romantic poetry / Stephen Tedeschi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tedeschi, Stephen, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 117.

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 117

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English poetry.

Urbanization--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Urbanization.

Urbanization in literature.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

History.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 282 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Through an incisive analysis of the emerging debates surrounding urbanization in the Romantic period, together with close readings of poets including William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stephen Tedeschi explores the notion that the Romantic poets criticized the historical form that the process of urbanization had taken, rather than urbanization itself. The works of the Romantic poets are popularly considered in a rural context and often understood as hostile to urbanization--one of the most profound social transformations of the era. By focusing on the urban aspects of such writing Tedeschi re-orientates the relationship between urbanization and English Romantic poetry to deliver a study that discovers how the Romantic poets examined not only the influence of urbanization on poetry but also how poetry might help to reshape the form that urbanization could take"-- Provided by publisher.

"During the three hundred years preceding the Romantic period, the portion of the population of England that lived in cities--largely in London but also in port cities, manufacturing towns, and regional trading and administrative centers--increased along with the expansion of the nation's commercial, manufacturing, and financial activity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : urbanization and English Romantic poetry

Urban ideology in eighteenth-century and Romantic poetry

Coleridge and the civilization of cultivation

Wordsworth and the affects of urbanization

Shelley and the political representation of urbanization

Robinson, Barbauld, and the limits of luxury

Conclusion : English Romantic poetry and urbanization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-278) and index.

ISBN:

9781108416092

1108416098

OCLC:

991100886

Publisher Number:

99975097396