Romantic Victorians: English Literature, 1824-1840

ISBN-13: 9780333966167 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 296 str.

Richard Cronin

Opis

Covering a wide range of authors, among them Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, Clare, Mary Shelley, and Disraeli, Cronin brings light and order to one of the murkiest quarters in recent British literary history. Brimming with intelligent and original perceptions about authors or works that have fallen through literary-historical cracks, Romantic Victorians offers shrewd assessments of their formal and tactical designs. This is a literary period in which literature fully entered the marketplace, and in which an ideology was constitued - civic, domestic, Christian and imperial - that was to inform British society for more than a century. These are among the issues that Cronin addresses and, in so doing, successfully restructures nineteenth-century literary studies.

Recenzje

'If Cronin's book elegantly succeeds in showing how these Romantic questions were answered by poets like Tennyson, it also succeeds in reminding us that these answers would become questionable in their turn.' - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Magdalen College, Oxford, The Tennyson Research Bulletin

'...contains so much lucid, intelligent and perceptive commentary upon its subject.' - Sally Bushell, The Wordsworth Circle

Spis treści

Introduction Memorializing Romanticism Historicizing Romanticism Feminizing Romanticism Fashioning Romanticism Civilizing Romanticism Realizing Romanticism Christening Romanticism Domesticating Romanticism Conclusion Index

O autorze

RICHARD CRONIN is Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. His previous books are Shelley's Poetic Thoughts, Colour and Experience in Nineteenth-Century Poetry, Imagining India, 1798: The Year of Lyrical Ballads and The Politics of Romantic Poetry: In Search of the Pure Commonwealth.