This study offers an approachable reassessment of Keats' writing with particular emphasis on gender identity and sexuality. John Whale locates Keats' poetry and letters in his contemporary friendship groupings and forms of masculinity. Whale addresses all the major poems, gives due prominence to the letters, and provides a case for understanding the role played by many lesser known poems, thereby offering a new understanding of Keats' exploration of poetry, love and desire.
This study offers an approachable reassessment of Keats' writing with particular emphasis on gender identity and sexuality. John Whale locates Keats' ...
This ambitious study offers a radical reassessment of one of the most important concepts of the Romantic period--the imagination. In contrast to traditional accounts, John Whale locates the Romantic imagination within the period's lively and often antagonistic polemics on aesthetics and politics, focusing in particular on British responses to the French Revolution and the ideology of utilitarianism. Through detailed analysis of key texts by Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Hazlitt, Cobbett and Coleridge, this book seeks to restore the role of imagination as a more positive force within...
This ambitious study offers a radical reassessment of one of the most important concepts of the Romantic period--the imagination. In contrast to tradi...
First published in 1790 Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France initiated a debate not only about the nature of the unprecedented historical events taking place across the channel, but about the very identity of the British state and its people. It has subsequently been appropriated by a variety of conservative and liberal thinkers and has played a major role in our understanding of the relationship between rhetoric, aesthetics and politics. In this volume, leading Burke scholars offer new and challenging essays which allow us to reconsider the historical context in which...
First published in 1790 Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France initiated a debate not only about the nature of the unprecedented histo...
This unique collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare, looking at the powerful potential of emotions to shape and critique complex notions of temporality and textuality. The contributors show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use love (and other emotions generated and absorbed by love) as a means of approaching the past and the problem of tradition. Because of the long textual history to which they self-consciously look back, fictions of the Troilus and Criseyde/Cresseid/Cressida-tradition cannot avoid reflecting on the...
This unique collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare, looking at the powerful potential of em...
First published in 1992. "Beyond Romanticism "represents a substantial challenge to traditional views of the Romantic period and provides a sustained critique of Romantic ideology . The debates with which it engages had previously been under-represented in the study of Romanticism, where the claims of history had never had quite the same status as they have had in other periods, and where confidence in poetic literary value remains high.
Individual essays examine the philosophical underpinnings of Romantic discourse; they survey analogous and competing discourses of the period such as...
First published in 1992. "Beyond Romanticism "represents a substantial challenge to traditional views of the Romantic period and provides a sustain...
