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Author Davies, Damian

Title Romanticism, History, Historicism : Essays on an Orthodoxy
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (255 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Romanticism, 11
Routledge Studies in Romanticism, 11
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Preface: "A Poem Should Be Equal To: / Not True"; Introduction: Refl ections on an Orthodoxy; 1 The Incommensurable Value of Historicism; 2 The Hair of Milton: Historicism and Literary History; 3 "In Embalmèd Darkness": Keats, the Picturesque, and the Limits of Historicization; 4 Telling Lives to Children: Young Versus New Historicism in Little Arthur's History of England; 5 Whose History? My Place or Yours?: Republican Assumptions and Romantic Traditions; 6 Overlooking History: The Case of John Thelwall
7 Byron's Cain and the "History" of Cradle Songs8 Romanticism, Feminism, History, Historicism: A Conversation; 9 Romanticism and the Feminist Uses of History; 10 New Historicism, New Austen, New Romanticism; 11 Leigh Hunt and Romantic Biography; Contributors; Index
Summary This edited collection reflects on the continuing influence of New Historicism in Romantic Studies. Its eleven essays approach Romantic New Historicism past, present and future from a variety of angles in order to assess its vital contribution to our understanding, and revisioning, of the period c.17701830
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Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
Historicism in literature.
Literature and history -- England -- History -- 19th century
Romanticism -- England
English literature
Feminism and literature
Historicism in literature
Literature and history
Romanticism
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203877982
0203877985