The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism

by David Duff (Editor)

Overview

The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism offers a comprehensive guide to the literature and thought of the Romantic period, and an overview of the latest research on this topic. Written by a team of international experts, the Handbook analyses all aspects of the Romantic movement, pinpointing its different historical phases and analysing the intellectual and political currents which shaped them. It gives particular attention to devolutionary trends, exploring the English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish strands in 'British' Romanticism and assessing the impact of the constitutional changes that brought into being the 'United Kingdom' at a time of revolutionary turbulence and international conflict. It also gives extensive coverage to the publishing and reception history of Romantic writing, highlighting the role of readers, reviewers, publishers, and institutions in shaping Romantic literary culture and transmitting its ideas and values. Divided into ten sections, each containing four or five chapters, the Handbook covers key themes and concepts in Romantic studies as well as less chartered topics such as freedom of speech, literature and drugs, Romantic oratory, and literary uses of dialect. All the major male and female Romantic authors are included along with numerous lesser-known writers, the emphasis throughout being on the diversity of Romantic writing and the complexities and internal divisions of the culture that sustained it. The volume strikes a balance between familiarity and novelty to provide an accessible guide to current thinking and a conceptual reorganization of this fast-moving field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191019715
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	09/26/2018
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	800
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

David Duff is Professor of Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London and founder-director of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar. He is the author of Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre (1994) and Romanticism and the Uses of Genre (OUP, 2009), which won the ESSE Book Award for Literatures in the English Language. His edited books include Modern Genre Theory (2000) and Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic (2007, with Catherine Jones). He is currently researching the literary history of the prospectus.

Table of Contents

Introduction, David Duff
Part I: Historical Phases
1. Romanticism before 1789, Nick Groom
2. The Revolutionary Decade, Jon Mee
3. The New Century: 1800-1815, Simon Bainbridge
4. Post-war Romanticism, Kelvin Everest
5. The 1820s and Beyond, Angela Esterhammer
Part II: Region and Nation
6. England and Englishness, Fiona Stafford
7. Scotland and the North, Penny Fielding
8. Wales and the West, Mary-Ann Constantine
9. Ireland and Union, Jim Kelly
Part III: Hierarchies
10. Romantic Generations, Michael Bradshaw
11. Poetry and Social Class, Brian Goldbery
12. The Spectrum of Fiction, Gary Kelly
13. Gender Boundaries, Anna Mellor
14. Literature for Children, Susan Manly
Part IV: Legislation
15. Freedom of Speech, David Worrall
16. The Regulation of Theatres, Gillian Russell
17. Poetic Manifestos and Defences, Anthony Howe
18. Critical Judgement and the Reviewing Profession, William Christie
19. Trial Literature, Victoria Myers
Part V: Cognition
20. The Subjective Turn, Thomas Keymer
21. Literature and the Senses, Noel Jackson
22. 'High' Romanticism: Literature and Drugs, Sharon Ruston
23. Writer-physicians, Catherine Jones
Part VI: Composition
24. Orality and Improvisation, Erik Simpson
25. Revision and Self-citation, Jane Stabler
26. Intertextual Dialogue, Beth Lau
27. Letters and Journals, Pamela Clemit
Part VII: Publication
28. Book-making, Paul Keen
29. Oeuvre-making and Canon-formation, Michael Gamer
30. Celebrity and Anonymity, Tom Mole
31. Romantic Readers, Felicity James
32. Non-publication, Lynda Pratt
Part VIII: Language
33. Literary Uses of Dialect, Jane Hodson
34. Romantic Oratory, Judith Thompson
35. Creative Translation, Michael Rossington
36. The Ineffable, Stephen Behrendt
Part IX: Aesthetics
37. The Romantic Lexicon, Andrew Bennet
38. Literature and Philosophy, Tim Milnes
39. Romantic Practical Criticism, Gregory Dart
40. Word and Image, Sophie Thomas
41. The Culture of Song, Kirsteen McCue
Part X: Imports and Exports
42. The Greco-Roman Revival, Nicholas Halmi
43. Orientalism and Hebraism, James Watt
44. Continental Romanticism in Britain, James Vigus
45. British Romantics Abroad, Patrick Vincent
46. Transatlantic Engagements, Fiona Robertson

Editorial Reviews

"The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism is a tremendous resource for scholars and students of the subject and one that will contribute to our teaching and research perspectives over the coming years." — Peter J. Kitson, British Association of Romantic Studies

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