Key Concepts in Romantic Literature. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jane Moore, John Strachan.
• Authors: Moore, Jane; Strachan, John
• Contents: What is Romanticism?' An introductory discussion which clearly addresses the vexed critical question of the nature of Romanticism 'Historical Definitions and Conceptualizations of Romanticism'? Discusses the changing manner in which Romanticism has been understood from the late eighteenth century to the present day 'CONTEXTS: History, Politics, Culture' Detailed and clearly written accounts of the momentous historical, political and social issues and events which shaped the Romantic period from the French Revolution onwards. After an account of British Politics from 1789 to 1832, subsequent chapters here include 'Empire and Travel', 'Feminism and the Position of Women', 'Industry and Economics', 'Ireland and the 'Catholic Question', 'Medicine and Science', 'Religion and Atheism', 'Sexualities' and 'Slavery, Abolition and African-British Literature' 'TEXTS: Themes, Issues, Concepts? This section addresses the key themes of Romantic literature, beginning with an account of the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Smith, and Robinson, and a discussion of their successors Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hemans, and Landon. Other chapters include 'Joanna Baillie and Romantic-Era Drama', 'Irish, Scottish and Welsh Poetry', 'Medievalism, the Sublime and the Gothic', 'The Novel' and 'Satire' 'CRITICISM: Approaches, Theory, Practice'? Discusses criticism of the Romantics from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Chapters include 'Contemporary and Victorian Reception', 'TwentiethCentury Criticism from Modernism to the New Criticism', and 'Modern Critical Approaches'. This last section offers a guide to the critical movements which have transformed Romantic studies from the 1980s in accounts of criticism 'From Deconstruction to PostColonial and Psychoanalytical Criticism', 'From Historicism to Ecological Criticism' and 'Gender Criticism'.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: Study & learning skills: general
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350310377; 1350310379
• Related ISBNs: 9781403948892
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