Repossessing the Romantic Past (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Glen, Heather

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511247842
• Artikelnr.: 38194829

Autorenporträt

Heather Glen is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of New Hall.
Paul Hamilton is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Paul Hamilton; Part I. Dissent and Opposition: 1. 'Severe
contentions of friendship': Barbauld, conversation, and dispute Jon Mee; 2.
Hazlitt's visionary London Kevin Gilmartin; 3. Shelley's republics Michael
Rossington; 4. Memoirs of a dutiful niece: Lucy Aikin and literary
reputation Anne Janowitz; 5. Holding Proteus: William Godwin in his letters
Pamela Clemit; Part II. Reopening the Case of Edgeworth: 6. Edgeworth and
Scott: the literature of reterritorialization James Chandler; 7. Maria
Edgeworth and 'the light of nature': artifice, autonomy and
anti-sectarianism in Practical Education (1798) Susan Manly; Part III.
Different Directions: 8. Coleridge's stamina Paul Hamilton; 9. Elizabeth
Hamilton's Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah and Romantic
Orientalism Nigel Leask; 10. Jane Austen and the professional wife Janet
Todd; 11. High instincts and real presences: two Romantic responses to the
death of beauty Jerome McGann; Coda: Bibliography of the writings of
Marilyn Butler Heather Glen.