Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception

by Lucy Newlyn

Overview

Reading, Writing, and Romanticism bridges a perceived gulf between materialist and idealist approaches to the reader. Informed by an historical awareness of Romantic hermeneutics and its later developments (as well as by an understanding of the circumstances conditioning the production and consumption of literature in this period), the book examines how readers are imagined, addressed, figured and theorized in Romantic poetry and criticism (1790-1830). Models of canon-formation, intertextuality and reader-response are considered alongside the existence of reading-coteries, the social practices of reading, and reforms in copyright. Consideration is given to the philosophical and ideological influences which bear upon the status of reading at this time, as well as to the educational theories and practices which underpin reading habits. Non-canonical writers are included, and special attention is given to the emergence of women's poetry and its repercussions for the poetics of reception.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198187103
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/07/2000
Pages:	420
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Lucy Newlyn is Lecturer in English, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford

Table of Contents

PrefacePart I. The Anxiety Of Reception1. The Sense of an Audience2. Case-Study 1: Coleridge3. Case-Study 2: Wordsworth4. Case-Study 3: Anna BarbauldPart II: Crossings on the Creative-Critical Divide5. Competition and Collaboration in Periodical Culture6. Feminising the Poetics of Reception7. 'One Power with a Double Aspect': The Formation of a System of Defences8. The Terror of Futurity; Repetition, Identification, and Doubling9. Reading Aloud: An 'Ambiguous Accompaniment'NotesBibliographyIndex