Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre Re-Forming Literature, 1789-1837 |
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| Contribution by:
| Rajan, Tilottama
Wright, Julia M.
Klancher, Jon
Gilmartin, Kevin
Handwerk, Gary
Ferris, Ina
Bialostosky, Don H. |
| Editor:
| Rajan, Tilottama
Wright, Julia M. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-58192-9 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1998 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $120.00 |
Book Description:
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Romanticism has often been associated with lyric poetry, 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 fictionalised autobiography. In this new volume some of the leading scholars of the period explore the relationship between ideology and literary genre from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The introduction...
More DescriptionRomanticism has often been associated with lyric poetry, 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 fictionalised autobiography. In this new volume some of the leading scholars of the period explore the relationship between ideology and literary genre from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The introduction offers a fresh examination of how genre was rethought by Romantic criticism.