Romantic Literary Families

ISBN-13: 9780230604759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 224 str.

Scott Krawczyk

Opis

Clarke and Clarke have created a journal that provides an ethnographic record of the East Indians and Creoles of San Fernando--and the entire sugar belt south of the town known as Naparima. They record socio-political relations during the second year of Trinidad's independence (1964), and provide first-hand evidence for the workings of a complex, plural society in which race, religion, and politics had become, and have remained, deeply intertwined. Entries occur whenever there is evidence of social scientific importance to the project, and these range from descriptions of weddings and pujas (prayer ceremonies devoted to a Hindu deity) to interviews with religious leaders, politicians and members of the south Trinidad elite.

Recenzje

"Krawczyk makes a compelling case for the need to expand our thinking about the family into the variety of literary, personal, and business relationships such sociological interactions can encompass. In tracing the very human relationships both on and beyond the pages, Krawczyk's study expands our understanding of the circles of authors through the period" - Keats-Shelley Journal

"This is a thoughtful, measured, and persuasive book - a real contribution to our understanding of Romantic creativity. Scott Krawczyk's analysis not only taps into recent critical interest in sociable networks and collaborative productions; it also offers new insights into the literary family as the 'predominant mediating network for Romantic collaboration.'" - NBOL-19

"Elegant and erudite, Krawczyk's Romantic Literary Families is an exciting addition to the field of kinship studies. Through its readings of consanguineal, conjugal, and incorporated family groups, Romantic Literary Families convincingly marries literary criticism and socio-literary history; the book offers fascinating analyses of the familial and literary relationships of the Aikins, Wordsworths, Shelleys, and their circles." - Jacqueline Labbe, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick

"Demonstrating how nineteenth-century literary families sought to 'incorporate' themselves, Krawczyk shows us that such relationships were meaningful both within and between familial groups. He reveals how celebrated authors worked collaboratively, jockeyed for position, or sought advantageous 'mergers,' all in familial terms. Reading the fascinating published and private writings of the Barbauld-Aikins, the Wollstonecraft-Godwin-Shelleys, the Wordsworths, and others, Romantic Literary Families compels us to see the era's most significant literary relations through new eyes. This pioneering book deserves a wide readership." - Devoney Looser, Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri and co-editor,Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies

"The output of these thinkers and writers provides a cross-section of the views on politics, education, slavery, and literature that form the Romantic movement. Incorporating contemporary scholarship, this book, with its outstanding bibliography, will be invaluable. Highly recommended." - CHOICE

Spis treści

Collaborative Dissent: Anna Barbauld and the Aikin School Walking 'Backwards and Forwards': The Wordsworths in 1802/1807 Incorporating the Literary Family Collaborative Co-Addicts Competing Houses The Godwins, the Shelleys, and the Genius Familiae

O autorze

SCOTT KRAWCZYK is the Deputy Head of the Department of English at the United States Military Academy at West Point, USA.