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Handbook of British Romanticism

  • Edited by: Ralf Haekel
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2017
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The Handbook of British Romanticism is a state of the art investigation of Romantic literature and theory, a field that probably changed more quickly and more fundamentally than any other traditional era in literary studies. Since the early 1980s, Romantic studies has widened its scope significantly: The canon has been expanded, hitherto ignored genres have been investigated and new topics of research explored. After these profound changes, intensified by the general crisis of literary theory since the turn of the millennium, traditional concepts such as subjectivity, imagination and the creative genius have lost their status as paradigms defining Romanticism. The handbook will feature discussions of key concepts such as history, class, gender, science and the use of media as well as a thorough account of the most central literary genres around the turn of the 19th century. The focus of the book, however, will lie on a discussion of key literary texts in the light of the most recent theoretical developments. Thus, the Handbook of British Romanticism will provide students with an introduction to Romantic literature in general and literary scholars with a discussion of innovative and groundbreaking theoretical developments.
  • An encompassing work of reference including key concepts, historical and cultural contexts, literary genres
  • An in-depth analysis of individual Romantic texts in the light of recent literary and cultural theories

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Ralf Haekel, University of Götttingen, Germany.

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"Denn nicht nur diejenigen, die das Fach Anglistik an den Universitäten studieren, können hier fündig werden, sondern auch viele derjenigen, die das Fach unterrichten und hier auch auf Texte stoßen mögen, mit denen sie bisher nicht vertraut waren."
Till Kinzel in: IFB 4 (2018), http://informationsmittel-fuer-bibliotheken.de/showfile.php?id=9333

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Contents

    VII
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    0. Romanticism and Theory: An Introduction

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    Ralf Haekel
  • Part I. Systematic Questions
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    1. Political and Social History c. 1780–1832

    27
    Gerold Sedlmayr
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    2. Gender and Class

    49
    Ina Schabert
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    3. Regional Romanticisms

    67
    Katharina Rennhak
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    4. Urban Romanticism

    88
    Jens Martin Gurr
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    5. Romanticism and the Philosophy of Religion

    104
    Stephen Prickett
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    6. Popular and Media Culture

    116
    Christoph Reinfandt
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    7. Science and Knowledge

    135
    Ute Berns
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    8. The European Context

    164
    Rolf Lessenich
  • Part II. Romantic Genres
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    9. The Lyric

    183
    Michael O’Neill
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    10. Theatre and Drama

    201
    Frederick Burwick
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    11. Fiction

    218
    Sandra Heinen
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    12. Romantic Travel Books

    237
    Michael Meyer
  • Part III. Close Readings
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    13. Robert Burns, Selected Poetry (1791–1795)

    259
    Kirsten Sandrock
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    14. William Blake, America (1793)

    277
    Roger Lüdeke
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    15. William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794)

    293
    Helga Schwalm
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    16. Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)

    308
    Jan Alber
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    17. Joanna Baillie, Plays on the Passions (1798)

    326
    Barbara Schaff
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    18. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798, 1800)

    344
    Sebastian Domsch
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    19. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1798)

    360
    James Vigus
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    20. Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (1800)

    376
    Kerstin Fest
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    21. William Wordsworth, The Prelude (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850)

    391
    Mark J. Bruhn
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    22. Mary Tighe, Psyche (1805)

    409
    Harriet Kramer Linkin
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    23. Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), The Wild Irish Girl (1806)

    425
    Ralf Haekel
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    24. Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head (1807)

    439
    Anca-Raluca Radu
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    25. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812)

    459
    Olivia Murphy
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    26. Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies (1808– 1834)

    474
    Frank Erik Pointner and Dennis Weißenfels
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    27. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

    489
    Susanne Bayerlipp and Johannes Schlegel
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    28. Sir Walter Scott, Waverley (1814)

    505
    Frauke Reitemeier
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    29. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)

    523
    Johannes Schlegel
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    30. Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818–1824)

    540
    Norbert Lennartz
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    31. John Keats, The Odes (1819)

    556
    Wolfgang G. Müller
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    32. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Selected Poetry (1819–1822)

    575
    Susanne Schmid
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    33. Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)

    589
    Felicitas Meifert-Menhard
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    34. James Hogg, The Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)

    606
    Ian Campbell
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    35. Felicia Hemans, The Forest Sanctuary (1825)

    620
    Diego Saglia
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    36. William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age (1825)

    635
    Jon Cook
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    37. Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death’s Jest-Book (1829)

    647
    Maximiliaan van Woudenberg
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    38. Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)

    666
    Tiana M. Fischer
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    Index of Subjects and Places

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    Index of Names and Works

    698
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    List of Contributors

    713

Publishing information
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eBook published on:
September 11, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9783110376692
Hardcover published on:
September 11, 2017
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110376364
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
10
Main content:
715
Illustrations:
25
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110376692
eBook ISBN: 9783110376692
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110376364
Keywords for this book
Romantic literature and culture; English literature 1780-1830; literary and cultural theory
Audience(s) for this book
Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Students (BA, MA and PhD level), Libraries, Institutes.
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