Romanticism in the Shadow of War

Romanticism in the Shadow of War
Author: Jeffrey N. Cox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2014-08-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316061914

Jeffrey N. Cox reconsiders the history of British Romanticism, seeing the work of Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats responding not only to the 'first generation' Romantics led by Wordsworth, but more directly to the cultural innovations of the Napoleonic War years. Recreating in depth three moments of political crisis and cultural creativity - the Peace of Amiens, the Regency Crisis, and Napoleon's first abdication - Cox shows how 'second generation' Romanticism drew on cultural 'border raids', seeking a global culture at a time of global war. This book explores how the introduction on the London stage of melodrama in 1803 shaped Romantic drama, how Barbauld's prophetic satire Eighteen Hundred and Eleven prepares for the work of the Shelleys, and how Hunt's controversial Story of Rimini showed younger writers how to draw on the Italian cultural archive. Responding to world war, these writers sought to embrace a radically new vision of the world.

Romanticism in the Shadow of War

Romanticism in the Shadow of War
Author: Jeffrey N. Cox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2014-08-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107071941

A fresh take on Romantic writers including Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats, within the culture of the Napoleonic War years.

Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing

Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing
Author: Neil Ramsey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2023-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009100440

This book illuminates the genesis and development of modern war writing in relation to Romanticism, biopolitics and disciplinary theory.

Romantic Art in Practice

Romantic Art in Practice
Author: Thora Brylowe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1108426409

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

Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era

Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era
Author: Hannah Doherty Hudson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2023-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 100932196X

Explores the Romantic conviction that there were 'too many' novels and shows how this belief transformed the publication of fiction.

Urbanization and English Romantic Poetry

Urbanization and English Romantic Poetry
Author: Stephen Tedeschi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108416098

This book re-orientates the relationship between urbanization and English Romantic poetry by focusing on urban aspects of Romantic poems.

William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic

William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic
Author: Jeffrey Cox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2021-05-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108943780

William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic provides a truly comprehensive reading of 'late' Wordsworth and the full arc of his career from (1814–1840) revealing that his major poems after Waterloo contest poetic and political issues with his younger contemporaries: Keats, Shelley and Byron. Refuting conventional models of influence, where Wordsworth 'fathers' the younger poets, Cox demonstrates how Wordsworth's later writing evolved in response to 'second generation' romanticism. After exploring the ways in which his younger contemporaries rewrote his 'Excursion', this volume examines how Wordsworth's 'Thanksgiving Ode' enters into a complex conversation with Leigh Hunt and Byron; how the delayed publication of 'Peter Bell' could be read as a reaction to the Byronic hero; how the older poet's River Duddon sonnets respond to Shelley's 'Mont Blanc'; and how his later volumes, particularly 'Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837', engage in a complicated erasure of poets who both followed and predeceased him.

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose
Author: British Academy Global Professor Robert Morrison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 993
Release: 2024-09-13
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0198834543

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is a full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British Romantic nonfiction prose. Organized into eight parts, each containing between five and nine chapters arranged alphabetically, the Handbook weaves together familiar and unfamiliar texts, events, and authors, and invites readers to draw comparisons, reimagine connections and disconnections, and confront frequently stark contradictions, within British Romantic nonfiction prose, but also in its relationship to British Romanticism more generally, and to the literary practices and cultural contexts of other periods and countries. The Handbook builds on previous scholarship in the field, considers emerging trends and evolving methodologies, and suggests future areas of study. Throughout the emphasis is on lucid expression rather than gnomic declaration, and on chapters that offer, not a dutiful survey, but evaluative assessments that keep an eye on the bigger picture yet also dwell meaningfully on specific paradoxes and the most telling examples. Taken as a whole the volume demonstrates the energy, originality, and diversity at the crux of British Romantic nonfiction prose. It vigorously challenges the traditional construction of the British Romantic movement as focused too exclusively on the accomplishments of its poets, and it reveals the many ways in which scholars of the period are steadily broadening out and opening up delineations of British Romanticism in order to encompass and thoroughly evaluate the achievements of its nonfiction prose writers.