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York Notes Companions: Romantic Literature

BuchKartoniert, Paperback
376 Seiten
Englisch
Pearson ELTerschienen am15.06.2010
The literature of the Romantic era is steeped in the politics of revolution and reaction. This volume looks at first and second generation poets such as Wordsworth, Blake, Byron and Shelley and explores their engagement with the turbulent history of their times. Other genres such as drama, fiction and travel writing are also discussed, with close attention paid to texts by Walpole, Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft. Combining thematic analysis with modern critical perspectives, the volume also includes key contextual sections focusing on Imagination, Truth and Reason , Heroes and Anti-heroes and Faith, Doubt and Myth .mehr

Produkt

KlappentextThe literature of the Romantic era is steeped in the politics of revolution and reaction. This volume looks at first and second generation poets such as Wordsworth, Blake, Byron and Shelley and explores their engagement with the turbulent history of their times. Other genres such as drama, fiction and travel writing are also discussed, with close attention paid to texts by Walpole, Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft. Combining thematic analysis with modern critical perspectives, the volume also includes key contextual sections focusing on Imagination, Truth and Reason , Heroes and Anti-heroes and Faith, Doubt and Myth .
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-4082-0479-5
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2010
Erscheinungsdatum15.06.2010
Seiten376 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht476 g
Artikel-Nr.11286480

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part One: Introduction   Part Two: A Cultural Overview   Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts   Writing in Revolution: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and William Wordsworth             Extended commentary: Wordsworth, The Prelude (1850), Book IX, lines 436-           504   Revolution, Reaction and the Natural World: Wordsworth and Coleridge, John Clare and William Blake             Extended commentary: Blake, The Tyger´ from Songs of Experience (1793)   Dramatic writing: Horace Walpole, Robert Southey and Lord Byron Extended commentary: Walpole, The Mysterious Mother (1768), V.i.312-420   Romantic Verse Narratives: John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Extended commentary: The Rime of the Ancyent Mariner´ (1817), lines 1-40 and 610-17   Romantic Fiction: James Hogg, Thomas Love Peacock and Jane Austen             Extended commentary: Austen, Persuasion (1816), Chapter 23   Romantic Travel Writing: William Beckford, Lord Byron and Mary Wollstonecraft Extended commentary: Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796), Letters 16 and 17    Part Four: Critical Theories and Debates  Imagination, Truth and Reason Faith, Myth and Doubt Heroes and Ant-Heroes Forms of Ruin     Part Five: References and resources Timeline   Further reading   Indexmehr

Autor

Dr John Gilroy (BA Newcastle: MPhil Warwick: Cert.Ed. Leeds) lectures part-time in the English Department of Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. He is a lecturer for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education and is a course director for its international and residential programmes. His most recent publications are contributions on Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats for The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature (Steven R. Serafin & Valerie Grosvenor-Myer eds, Continuum, 2003), Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selected Poems, 2007 (www.Humanities-Ebooks.co.uk) and Philip Larkin: Selected Poems, 2009 (www.Humanities-Ebooks.co.uk). He is interested in all aspects of British Romanticism and is currently researching material on the significance of early aeronautics in the Romantic period.