Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre: Re-forming Literature 1789-1837Tilottama Rajan, Julia M. Wright Cambridge University Press, 13.02.1998 - 291 Seiten Romanticism has often been associated with the mode of lyric, or otherwise confined within mainstream genres. As a result, we have neglected the sheer diversity and generic hybridity of a literature that ranged from the Gothic novel to the national tale, from monthly periodicals to fictionalized autobiography. In this volume leading scholars of the period explore the ways in which the Romantics developed genre from a taxonomical given into a cultural category, so as to make it the scene of an ongoing struggle between fixed norms and new initiatives. Focusing on non-canonical writers (such as Thelwall, Godwin and the novelists of the 1790s), or placing authors such as Wordsworth and Byron in a non-canonical context, these essays explore the psychic and social politics of genre from a variety of theoretical perspectives, while the introduction looks at how genre itself was rethought by Romantic criticism. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
GENRE HISTORY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE | 8 |
on necessity | 21 |
Radical print culture in periodical form | 39 |
the national tale female writing | 86 |
Lyrical Ballads 1798 | 109 |
John Thelwall and | 122 |
from the ghost of | 176 |
Autonarration and genotext in Mary Hays Memoirs | 213 |
scenes of female enlightenment | 240 |
The failures of romanticism | 270 |
288 | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abject Augustus autonarration Bakhtin Beavoin becomes Byron Cambridge Caroline Castle of Otranto character contingency counterfeit critical cultural death desire discourse eighteenth-century Emma Emma's English enlightenment epistolary essay father female feminine Fenwick fiction figure Filmar Frankenstein gender genotext ghost Gothic Gothic fiction Gothic novel Hays heroine ideological imagination Irish John Thelwall Kristeva Lady Morgan language Leon letters literary literature London Lyrical Ballads male Mandeville marriage Mary Hays Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft melancholia melancholy Memoirs mode modern Morgan mother narrative national tale nature neo-Gothic novel O'Brien O'Flahertys passion period Peripatetic plot poem poet poetic poetry Political Justice public sphere radical weekly reader reading Renaissance repetition representation resistance Romantic Romanticism scene sense sentimental sexual Shelley's Sibella signifier social story structure symbolic textual Thelwall Thelwall's Tilottama tion turn University Press Valmont Walpole's Walpolean Wild Irish Girl William Godwin Wollstonecraft woman women Wordsworth writing
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