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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Named Person: | Englisch |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James Chandler |
ISBN: | 0226101088 9780226101088 0226101096 9780226101095 |
OCLC Number: | 37180920 |
Description: | xxii, 584 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | pt. 1. The "historical situation" of romanticism: sec. 1. Writing historicism, then and now: ch. 1. Specificity after structuralism : dating the "return to history: Exemplifying nominalism. Specifying history. Dating cultures. From annalization to annualization. The "peculiar conditions" of British romanticism. Lévi-Strauss, St. Simon, and the beginning of history ; ch. 2. An art of the state : historicism and the measures of uneven development: Codifying the order of history. Returning to romantic historicism. The age of the spirit of the age. Anna Barbauld and the measures of history. The structural transformation of the public state. Uneven development. Literary studies and "historical epistemology". Translating cultures. "La vie privée of our forefathers" -- sec. 2. Romanticism in the representative state: ch. 3. Representing culture, romanticizing contradiction : the politics of literary exemplarity: Keywords : culture, representation, anecdote. The romantic type. Exemplary histories and "representative men" : Hazlitt's prismatic gallery. Shelley's representative legislature. Historicism, contradiction, and casuistry ; ch. 4. Altering the case : the invention of the historical situation: The form of the case. Balancing acts : Old mortality and the wars of conscience. "A specimen of all causes" : the case of Redgauntlet. The representative state and the transformation of casuistry. The casuistry of the general will. Some qualifications. The Continental system. Bretagne en 1799, history in 1988 : the historical novel redivivus -- pt. 2. Reading England in 1819: Interchapter: The scene of reading in 1819 : literature, politics, and Moore. sec. 1. Cases, causes, casuistries: ch. 5. Reopening the case of Scott: The theory of sentiment and the case of The heart. Caption and conversation : SCott's explanatory words. Making a scene in The bride of Lammermoor. Scott and sign value. Making a scene for The bride of Lammermoor. Laws of Scotland, laws of syntax ; ch. 6. Byron's causes : the moral mechanics of Don Juan: The "common cause" of Robert Southey. Wordsworthian whys and wherefores. "Man fell with apples" : the moral mechanics of Don Juan. Byron's Waverley novel. Catherine and Castlereagh : worst cases, worst causes ; ch. 7. An "1819 temper" : Keats and the history of psyche: Smokeability. Rehabilitating Psyche. The politics of "soul-making". The week when Keats wrote To autumn. Emperor and clown : Keats's literary imperilism ; ch. 8. Concerning the influence of America on the mind : Western settlements, "English writers," and the case of U.S. culture: Washington Irving and the "English writers on America". The English Columbus. Anxieties of exodus. Godwinian theory in the newest of new worlds. The "mystery of generation". Keats and "the humanity of the United States". America in 1819 : poetry, unity, representation -- sec. 2. Sublime casuistry: ch. 9. The case of "the case of Shelley". A defense of Shelley. The play's the thing : casuistry in The Cenci. Requisites of historical judgment. A second look at Peter Bell the Third ; ch. 10. History's lyre : the "west wind" and the poet's work: Lyricism and historicism. A revolution in the turns of season. The elementary case. The absent cause. Fallen leaves. |
Responsibility: | James Chandler. |
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Abstract:
The year 1819 in England was notable for the quality, value and topicality of its literature, while parliamentary and political reforms were widely demanded, especially by "Romantic" writers. This book argues that the writing demonstrates an awareness of its place both in history, and as history.
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