The Regency Revisited

by Tim Fulford (Editor), Michael E Sinatra (Editor)

Overview

The Regency Revisited reconfigures Romantic Studies through a neglected timeframe. It demonstrates how politics and culture of the Regency years transformed literature. By co-opting authors, the Regency provoked opposition, and brought new genres and modes of writing to the fore. Key figures are Robert Southey and Leigh Hunt: The Regency Revisited shows their pivotal roles in transforming Romanticism. Austen and Byron also feature as authors who honed their satire in response to Regency culture. Other topics include Blake and popular art, Regency science (Humphry Davy), Moore and parlour songs, Cockney writing and Pierce Egan, and Anna Barbauld and the collecting and exhibiting that was so popular an aspect of Regency London.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137543370
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/30/2016
Series:	Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	207
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tim Fulford is Professor of English at De Montfort University, UK. His most recent publications include The Late Poetry of the Lake Poets, The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, and Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1811-38. He is currently editing The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy.

Michael E. Sinatra is Associate Professor of English at the Université de Montreal, Canada. He is the author of Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene, 1805–1828, one of the general editors of the Selected Writing of Leigh Hunt, and the founding editor of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Tim Fulford and Michael E. Sinatra
2. The Glimmer of Futurity, 1811-1815; Jonathan Sachs
3. Jane Austen, Percy Shelley, and Felix Britannica; Joel Faflak
4. Renewing the Estate: Mansfield Park and the Berkeley Peerage Affair; Robert Miles
5. William Blake and the Decorative Arts; Tilar Mazzeo
6. The State of The Examiner's World in 1813; Jeffrey N. Cox
7. 'Senator and Actors': Leigh Hunt's Theatrical Criticism and the Regency; Michael E. Sinatra
8. 1813: The Year of the Laureate; Michael Gamer
9. Of Precious Loobies, Bag Wigs, and Posthumous Orators: Hunt's 'Resurrection' of Southey; Gregory Kucich
10. The Volcanic Humphry Davy; Tim Fulford
11. Lord Byron's Greek Air: Rediscovering a Regency Lyric; Andrew Stauffer
12. Collecting, Cultural Memory and the Regency Museum; Sophie Thomas
13. De-Radicalizing Popular Literature: from William Hone to Pierce Egan; John Gardner

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This volume brings together Austen, Southey, Hunt, and others into an exciting and unusual colloquy of aesthetics and politics by historicizing a 'flashpoint' of Romantic self-fashioning in the midst of the early regency, dominated by the Regent's flamboyant and oversized presence and by reactions to him." – Mark Schoenfield, Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, USA

"Offering the transformative years 1811-1815 as a focal point for reconsidering the role of periodization in literary studies, this thoughtfully structured and theoretically astute collection joins a growing body of works that illuminate Romanticism's conversation with itself." - Kristin F. Samuelian, Associate Professor of English, George Mason University, USA

Editorial Reviews

The scholars involved in this volume are some of the best respected Romanticists of their generation and most have been developing their theories of periodization for the last several decades through conferences and in print. … the powerful readings offered by this volume can and should inspire Romanticists to revisit the Regency, to test and contest, develop and help remake the narrative of Romanticism. As such, this volume is a welcome and valuable gift to future scholarship on the period.” (J. Andrew Hubbell, Review 19, nbol-19.org, February, 2017)

From the Publisher