Repossessing the romantic past / edited by Heather Glen and Paul Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glen, Heather, editor.

Hamilton, Paul, 1950- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

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

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Work on British Romanticism is often characterised as much by its conscious difference from preceding positions as it is by its approach to or choice of material. As a result, writing neglected or marginalised in one account will be restored to prominence in another, as we reconstruct the past as a history of the present. This collection of essays takes as its starting point the wide-ranging work of Marilyn Butler on Romantic literature, and includes contributions by some of the most prominent scholars of Romanticism working today. The essays offer interesting perspectives on Maria Edgeworth, Coleridge, Austen, Scott and others, showing that the openness of modern critical perceptions matches and reflects the diversity of the literature and culture of the Romantic period itself.

Contents:

Introduction / Paul Hamilton. pt. 1. Dissent and opposition. "Severe contentions of friendship": Barbauld, conversation, and dispute / Jon Mee

Hazlitt's visionary London / Kevin Gilmartin

Shelley's republics / Michael Rossington

Memoirs of a dutiful niece: Lucy Aikin and literary reputation / Anne Janowitz

Holding Proteus: William Godwin in his letters / Pamela Clemit. pt. 2. Reopening the case of Edgeworth. Edgeworth and Scott: the literature of reterritorialization / James Chandler

Maria Edgeworth and "the light of nature": artifice, autonomy, and anti-sectarianism in Practical education (1798) / Susan Manly. pt. 3. Different directions. Coleridge's stamina / Paul Hamilton

Elizabeth Hamilton's Translation of the letters of a Hindoo Rajah and Romantic orientalism / Nigel Leask

Jane Austen and the professional wife / Janet Todd

High instincts and real presences: two Romantic responses to the death of Beauty / Jerome McGann. Marilyn Butler: a bibliography / Heather Glen.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-16706-X

1-280-70350-4

0-511-24998-5

0-511-24892-X

0-511-25049-5

0-511-31936-3

0-511-48423-2

0-511-24947-0

OCLC:

229991067

Publisher Number:

9780521858663