Romantic Generations

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Unlike the first two volumes of "ANGLES" on the English-Speaking World, this special issue does not originate in a set of conference papers. The idea of compiling a collection of essays on Romanticism emerged from the unusually strong concentration on Romantic studies among the graduate students of the English Department a couple of years ago. This volume places their work in the context of distinguished international scholars of greater seniority, scholars who have become academic contacts through conferences and assessment committees, and whose contributions I am very pleased to be able to include alongside the works of local contributors. The Romantic generations of the title of this volume thus strike a number of different chords: generations of scholars in Romantic studies; conventional divisions of Romantic poets into first, second and possibly third generations; the self-generative aspect of Romanticism; the awareness of poetic reputation and the image and afterlife of the poet. The collection spans just over a hundred years, from the 1780s to the 1890s, and while not in any way attempting to define Romanticism or raise issues of periodization the volume allows for the continued existence of Romantic features right until the end of the nineteenth century. Poetry looms large in this issue of ANGLES; apart from Ian Duncan's essay on Hume, Scott, and the "Rise of Fiction",' all the other essays are in some way concerned with the Romantic poet and his poetry. The Romantic poet is thus represented as a collector and editor of ballads, as a political radical and printmaker, as other to himself, essentially ignorant of the process of poetic composition, as a rival and collaborator with other poets, or as a poet long dead, the subject of successive generations of poetic lament. The boundaries between poetry and the visual arts is explored in a couple of the essays; indeed, the rivalry between portraiture and literature pervades no less than three of the contributions, and no matter whether the subject of inquiry is the image of the poet or the image of the poet's mother, the Romantic poet displays a high degree of self-consciousness with respect to both literary and visual media. Romantic generations generate both selves and others in poetry and portraiture.

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Genre : Art
Author : Lene Østermark-Johansen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Release : 2003
File : 182 Pages
ISBN-13 : 8772898607


Romantic Generations

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These essays express a common belief that the study of Romantic literature must be at once professionally serious and personally engaging. Topics discussed range from Wordsworth to Lady Caroline Lamb, and from Blake and Burke to the contemporary Irish poet Paul Muldoon. Each essay also offers close readings of essential works on English and Irish Romanticism. Introducing the collection is a tribute by the celebrated Romanticist Peter Manning.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Robert F. Gleckner
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Release : 2001
File : 316 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0838754708


Encyclopedia Of The Romantic Era 1760 1850

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Review: "Written to stress the crosscurrent of ideas, this cultural encyclopedia provides clearly written and authoritative articles. Thoughts, themes, people, and nations that define the Romantic Era, as well as some frequently overlooked topics, receive their first encyclopedic treatments in 850 signed articles, with bibliographies and coverage of historical antecedents and lingering influences of romanticism. Even casual browsers will discover much to enjoy here."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.

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Genre : Art
Author : Christopher John Murray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 2004
File : 664 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1579584225


Romanticism

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The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid advances in technology and a primitivist return to nature. As a broad global movement, Romanticism strongly impacted on the literature and arts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in ways that are still being debated and negotiated today. Examining the poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, and the arts of the period, this book considers: Important propositions and landmark ideas in the Romantic period; Key debates and critical approaches to Romantic studies; New and revisionary approaches to Romantic literature and art; The ways in which Romantic writing interacts with broader trends in history, politics, and aesthetics; European and Global Romanticism; The legacies of Romanticism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Containing useful, reader-friendly features such as explanatory case studies, chapter summaries, and suggestions for further reading, this clear and engaging book is an invaluable resource for anyone who intends to study and research the complexity and diversity of the Romantic period, as well as the historical conditions which produced it.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Carmen Casaliggi
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2016-05-12
File : 282 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317609353


Romanticism

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Genre : History
Author : John B. Halsted
Publisher : Springer
Release : 1969-06-18
File : 374 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781349004843


Coleridge And The Romantic Newspaper

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This book examines how Coleridge staged his private woes in the public space of the newspaper. It looks at his publications in the Morning Post, which first published one of his most famous poems, Dejection. An Ode. It reveals how he found a socially sanctioned public outlet for poetic disappointments and personal frustrations which he could not possibly articulate in any other way. Featuring fresh, contextual readings of established major poems; original readings of epigrams, sentimental ballads, and translations; analyses of political and human-interest stories, this book reveals the remarkable extent to which Coleridge used the public medium of the newspaper to divulge his complex and ambivalent private emotions about his marriage, his relationship with the Wordsworths and the Hutchinsons, and the effect of these dynamics on his own poetry and poetics.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Heidi Thomson
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2016-09-24
File : 285 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783319319780


Madness And The Romantic Poet

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Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the nineteenth century. The book offers a new and much more complete history of its development than has previously been attempted, alongside important associated ideas about individual genius, creativity, the emotions, rationality, and the mind in extreme states or disorder - ideas that have been pervasive in modern popular culture. More specifically, the book tells the story of the initial growth and wider dissemination of the idea of the 'Romantic mad poet' in the nineteenth century, how (and why) this idea became so popular, and how it interacted with the very different fortunes in reception and reputation of Romantic poets, their poetry, and attacks on or defences of Romanticism as a cultural trend generally - again leaving a popular legacy that endured into the twentieth century. Material covered includes nineteenth-century journalism, early literary criticism, biography, medical and psychiatric literature, and poetry. A wide range of scientific (and pseudoscientific) thinkers are discussed alongside major Romantic authors, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Hazlitt, Lamb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats, Byron, and John Clare. Using this array of sources and figures, the book asks: was the Romantic mad genius just a sentimental stereotype or a romantic myth? Or does its long popularity tell us something serious about Romanticism and the role it has played, or has been given, in modern culture?

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : James Whitehead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2017-07-14
File : 317 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780191053436


The Cambridge Introduction To British Romantic Poetry

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An engaging guide to reading, understanding and enjoying Romantic verse, designed for students approaching the period for the first time.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Michael Ferber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2012-04-26
File : 261 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780521769068


Romantic Art In Practice

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Explores the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a 'sister-art' movement between creative visual art and its literary counterparts.

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Genre : Art
Author : Thora Brylowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2019
File : 283 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781108426404


The Cambridge History Of Literary Criticism Volume 5 Romanticism

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The history of the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including structuralism and deconstruction.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 1989
File : 532 Pages
ISBN-13 : 052130010X