Palgrave Advances in John Clare Studies

ISBN-13: 9783030433734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 317 str.

Simon Kӧvesi; Erin Lafford

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Simon Kövesi and Erin Lafford.- 2. Poetry’s Variety: John Clare and the Poetic Scene in the 1820s and 1830; David Stewart.- 3. ‘Sweet the Merry Bells Ring Round’: John Clare’s songs for the drawing room; Kirsteen McCue.- 4.‘Sea Songs Love Ballads &c &c’: John Clare and Vernacular Song; Stephanie Kuduk Weiner.- 5.  John Clare’s Landforms; Sara Lodge.- 6. John Clare’s Ear: Metres and Rhythms; Andrew Hodgson.- 7. The Shepherd’s Calendar and Forms of Repetition; Sarah Houghton-Walker.- 8. John Clare’s Dynamic Animals; James Castell.- 9.  Multispecies Work in John Clare’s ‘Bird Nesting’ Poems; Katey Castellano.- 10.  Biosemiosis and Posthumanism in John Clare’s Multi-Centered Environments; Scott Hess.- 11.  Common Distress: John Clare’s Poetic Strain; Michael Nicholson.- 12. ‘fancys or feelings’: John Clare’s Hypochondriac Poetics; Erin Lafford.- 13. ‘A song in the night’: reconsidering John Clare’s later asylum poetry; James Whitehead.- Index.

O autorze

Simon Kövesi is Professor of English Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK, editor of the John Clare Society Journal, and author of John Clare: Nature, Criticism and History (2017).

Erin Lafford is a postdoctoral research fellow in English at the University of Derby, UK. She is currently completing her first book, John Clare and the Poetry of Illness.

Blurb

‘This fine collection is an important contribution to Romanticism studies which

will continue to be valued and read. Its essays are often fresh, original, and

skillfully inserted into diverse contemporary critical conversations. The book

reflects and advances recent developments in Clare scholarship in several areas:

Clare’s strong community ties, the significant roles of sound and song in his

verse, and, especially, his importance for modern ecocriticism.’

— Elizabeth Helsinger, University of Chicago, USA

This collection gathers together an exciting new series of critical essays on the

Romantic- and Victorian-period poet John Clare, which each take a rigorous

approach to both persistent and emergent themes in his life and work. Designed

to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Clare’s first volume of poetry,

Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, the scholarship collected here both

affirms Clare’s importance as a major nineteenth-century poet and reveals how

his verse continually provokes fresh areas of enquiry. Offering new archival,

theoretical, and sometimes corrective insights into Clare’s world and work, the

essays in this volume cover a multitude of topics, including Clare’s immersion in

song and print culture, his formal ingenuity, his environmental and ecological

imagination, his mental and physical health, and his experience of asylums. This

book gives students a range of imaginative avenues into Clare’s work, and offers

both new readers and experienced Clare scholars a vital set of contributions to

ongoing critical debates.