The Cambridge history of English romantic literature / edited by James Chandler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chandler, James, 1948- editor.

Series:

New Cambridge history of English literature

The new Cambridge history of English literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Romanticism--England.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 782 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Summary:

The Romantic period was one of the most creative, intense and turbulent periods of English literature, an age marked by revolution, reaction and reform in politics, and by the invention of imaginative literature in its distinctively modern form. This History presents an engaging account of six decades of literary production around the turn of the nineteenth century. Reflecting the most up-to-date research, the essays are designed both to provide a narrative of Romantic literature and to offer new and stimulating readings of the key texts. One group of essays addresses the various locations of literary activity - both in England and, as writers developed their interests in travel and foreign cultures, across the world. A second set of essays traces how texts responded to great historical and social change. With a comprehensive bibliography, timeline and index, this volume is an important resource for research and teaching in the field.

Contents:

Sentiment and sensibility / John Brewer

Antiquarianism, balladry and the rehabilitation of romance / Susan Manning

The Romantics and the political economists / Catherine Gallagher

The problem of periodization : Enlightenment, Romanticism and the fate of system / Clifford Siskin

London in the 1970s / John Barrell

Edinburgh and lowland Scotland / Ian Duncan

Romantic Ireland : 1750-1845 / Luke Gibbons

France, Germany, America / David Simpson

The warm south / Esther Schor

Country matters / W.J.T. Mitchell

Romanticism and the wider world : poetry, travel literature and empire / Nigel Leask

The homes of England / Margot Finn

Writing, reading and the scenes of war / Mary A Favret

Regency London / Simon During

Rebellion, revolution, reform : the transit of the intellectuals / Anne Janowitz

Changes in the world of publishing / Adrian Johns

The new poetries / Susan J. Wolfson

Romanticism and poetic autonomy / Paul Hamilton

Transformations of the novel, I / Diedre Lynch

Transformations of the novel, II / Ina Ferris

Theatre, performance and urban spectacle / Julie Carlson

The epigenesis of genre : new forms from old / Tilottama Rajan

The literature of the new sciences / Jan Golinski

The making of child readers / Katie Trumpener

Representation restructured / Frances Ferguson

Romantic cultural imperialism / Saree Makdisi

Romanticism and religious modernity : from natural supernaturalism to literary sectarianism / Kevin Gilmartin

Is Romanticism finished? / Jerome McGann.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781139055970 (ebook)

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