Romanticism and Time / edited by Sophie Laniel-Musitelli, Céline Sabiron.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laniel-Musitelli, Sophie, editor.

Sabiron, Céline, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century.

English poetry.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 286 pages) : color illustrations

Other Title:

Romanticism and Time

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2021.

Summary:

'Eternity is in love with the productions of time'. This original edited volume takes William Blake's aphorism as a basis to explore how British Romantic literature creates its own sense of time. It considers Romantic poetry as embedded in and reflecting on the march of time, regarding it not merely as a reaction to the course of events between the late-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, but also as a form of creative engagement with history in the making.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Times of Romanticism

Section I

Restoration, Revival, and Revolution across Romantic Europe

1. Future Restoration

2. Anthropocene Temporalities and British Romantic Poetry

3. Beethoven: Revolutionary Transformations

Section II

Romantic Conceptions of Time

4. The Temporality of the Soul: Immanent Conceptions of Time in Wordsworth and Byron

5. 'Footing slow across a silent plain': Time and Walking in Keatsian Poetics

Section III

The Poetics of Time 6. Contracting Time: John Clare's The Shepherd's Calendar

7. Book-Time in Charles Lamb and Washington Irving

8. 'A disciple of Albertus Magnus ... in the eighteenth century': Anachronism and Anachrony in Frankenstein

Section IV

Persistence and Afterlives

9. Heaps of Time in Beckett and Shelley

10. 'Thy Wreck a Glory': Venice, Subjectivity, and Temporality in Byron and Shelley and the Post-Romantic Imagination

Section V

Romanticism and Periodisation

Romanticism and Periodisation: A Roundtable

List of Contributors

List of Figures

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes index.