Title Reading Public Romanticism

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages) Series Princeton Legacy Library Princeton legacy library. Contents Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations and Key Words ; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE ; The Corresponding Society: The Public Discourse; CHAPTER TWO ; The Corresponding Society: Reading the Correspondence; CHAPTER THREE ; The Politics of Frost at Midnight -- CHAPTER FOUR ; The Mariner's Extravagance and the Tempests of Lyrical Ballads; CHAPTER FIVE ; The Dedication of Don Juan; CHAPTER SIX; Keats's Leaf-Fringed Legend -- Index Summary Reading Public Romanticism is a significant new example of the linking of esthetics and historical criticism. Here Paul Magnuson locates Romantic poetry within a public discourse that combines politics and esthetics, nationalism and domesticity, sexuality and morality, law and legitimacy. Building on his well-regarded previous work, Magnuson practices a methodology of close historical reading by identifying precise versions of poems, reading their rhetoric of allusion and quotation in the contexts of their original publication, and describing their public genres, such as the letter Notes Print version record Subject English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Literary form -- History -- 18th century Literary form -- History -- 19th century Public opinion in literature. Romanticism -- Great Britain Speech acts (Linguistics) LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Authors and readers English poetry Literary form Literature and society Public opinion Public opinion in literature Romanticism Speech acts (Linguistics) Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400864799 1400864798

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