Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre : Re-forming Literature 1789-1837 Paperback / softback
Edited by Tilottama (University of Western Ontario) Rajan, Julia M. (Canada Research Chair in European Studies, University of Waterloo, Ontario) Wright
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Romanticism has often been associated with the mode of lyric, or otherwise confined within mainstream genres.
As a result, we have neglected the sheer diversity and generic hybridity of a literature that ranged from the Gothic novel to the national tale, from monthly periodicals to fictionalized autobiography.
In this volume leading scholars of the period explore the ways in which the Romantics developed genre from a taxonomical given into a cultural category, so as to make it the scene of an ongoing struggle between fixed norms and new initiatives.
Focusing on non-canonical writers (such as Thelwall, Godwin and the novelists of the 1790s), or placing authors such as Wordsworth and Byron in a non-canonical context, these essays explore the psychic and social politics of genre from a variety of theoretical perspectives, while the introduction looks at how genre itself was rethought by Romantic criticism.
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- Pages:308 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/11/2006
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- ISBN:9780521028363
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:308 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/11/2006
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- ISBN:9780521028363