Configuring Romanticism : essays offered to C.C. Barfoot / edited by Theo D'haen [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haen, Theo d', editor.

Series:

Costerus New

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York, New York : Rodopi, [2003]

Summary:

Configuring Romanticism focuses on the ways in which "Romanticism" continues to change shape in light of new discoveries, new readings, new approaches. To this end, some essays here gathered offer novel interpretations of Romantic "classics" such as Wordsworth, Blake, and Southey, or discuss the Celtic roots of Romanticism. Others address the relationship of Romantic literature, particularly the work of Scott, Shelley, and De Quincey, to issues of colonialism and imperialism. Yet others trace the "afterlife" of Romanticism and the Romantics, specifically Byron, Shelley, and Keats, in the writings of Leigh Hunt, Elizabeth Gaskell, James Thomson, Algernon Swinburne, William Michael Rosetti, James Clarence Mangan, Francis Parkman, Gilbert and Sullivan, and T.S. Eliot, as well as in Dutch nineteenth-century criticism. The volume closes with discussions of the Romantic aspects of World War II propaganda, twentieth-century translations of the Aeneid in view of Romantic principles, the Romantic face of recent Québecois fiction, and present-day film versions of Jane Austen's Emma.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Foreword

On the Celtic Roots of a Romantic Theme

Some Reflections on William Blake and the Emblem

Phantoms of Delight: Lines Composed by William Wordsworth

Scott and Eighteenth-Century Imperialism: India and the Scottish Highlands

"Nilotic Mud": British Romantic Writers and the Colonies

Robert Southey, Charles Watkin Williams Wynn and "The Miser's Mansion"

"Our Love on One Side, Our Dictionary on the Other": Leigh Hunt's A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla (1847)

Victorian Shelley: Perspectives on a Romantic Poet

"Ruth ... Sick for Home": The Keatsian Imagination in the Novel of Elizabeth Gaskell

Arnoldus Pannevis: "Shakspere: A Critical Contribution" (1863)

Ecology as Requiem: Nature, Nationhood and History in Francis Parkman's "History of the American Forest"

A Glorious Thing: The Byronic Hero as Pirate Chief

A Modern Mode of Epiphany

Hands Off! Joyce and the Mangan in the Mac

"Out-Ranting the Enemy Leader": Henry V and/as World War II Propaganda

Romantic Residues? Virgil's Aeneid "in Such a Tongue as the People Understandeth" or in a "Language Really Spoken by Men"

Romantic Rebels in Three Novels of the Quiet Revolution in Québec

Images of an Imaginist: Two Film Versions of Jane Austen's Emma

Notes on Contributors.

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Print version: D'haen, Theo Configuring Romanticism

ISBN:

90-04-48767-0

OCLC:

1291313929