Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism

ISBN-13: 9781851969456 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 256 str.

Opis

Charlotte Smith's early sonnets established the genre as a Romantic form; her novels advanced sensibility beyond its reliance on emotional facility; and her blank verse initiated one of the most familiar of Romantic verse forms. This volume draws together the best of current scholarship.

Spis treści

Introduction , Jacqueline Labbe; Chapter 1 ‘Herself … Fills The Foreground’: Negotiating Autobiography in The Elegiac Sonnets and The Emigrants, Kerri Andrews; Chapter 2 From Nosegay to Specimen Cabinet: Charlotte Smith and The Labour of Collecting, Dahlia Porter; Chapter 3 The Figure of the Hermit in Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head, Kari Lokke; Chapter 4 The Subject of Beachy Head, Christoph Bode; Chapter 5 ‘The Slight Skirmishing of A Novel Writer’: Charlotte Smith and the American War of Independence, Barbara Tarling; Chapter 6 Charlotte Smith, The Godwin Circle, and the Proliferation of Speakers in The Young Philosopher, A. A. Markley; Chapter 7 The Alien Act and Negative Cosmopolitanism in The Letters of A Solitary Wanderer, Amy Garnai; Chapter 8 Narrating Seduction: Charlotte Smith and Jane Austen, Jacqueline Labbe; Chapter 9 Charlotte Smith’s The Banished Man in French Translation; or the Politics Of Novel-Writing During the Revolution, Katherine Astbury; Chapter 10 ‘This Village Wonder’: Charlotte Smith’s ‘What is She?’ and the Ideological Comedy of Curiosity, Diego Saglia; Chapter 11 Recovering Charlotte Smith’s Letters: A History, With Lessons, Judith Phillips Stanton; Chapter 12 Charlotte Smith: Intertextualities, Stuart Curran; Chapter 13 Charlotte Smith, Women Poets and The Culture of Celebrity, Stephen C. Behrendt; Chapter 14 ‘Tell My Name to Distant Ages’: The Literary Fate of Charlotte Smith, Louise Duckling;

O autorze

Jacqueline Labbe