Urbanization and English Romantic Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781108416092 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 294 str.

Stephen Tedeschi

Opis

This book re-orientates the relationship between urbanization and English Romantic poetry by focusing on urban aspects of Romantic poems.

Recenzje

'Stephen Tedeschi's Urbanization and English Romantic Poetry is an invigorating and at times demanding challenge to one of the central structuring oppositions in the study of British literature: that of the country versus the city … It asks its readers to recognize the world-changing potential of poetry and moreover that the idea that poetry could change the world was itself a product of the particular social conjunctions …' Ian Newman, The Wordsworth Circle

Spis treści

Introduction: urbanization and English Romantic poetry; 1. Urban ideology in eighteenth-century and Romantic poetry; 2. Coleridge and the civilization of cultivation; 3. Wordsworth and the affects of urbanization; 4. Shelley and the political representation of urbanization; 5. Robinson, Barbauld, and the limits of luxury; Conclusion: English Romantic poetry and urbanization.