Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845

Herausgeber: Fermanis, Porscha; Regan, John

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Produktbeschreibung

Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845 brings together a team of leading scholars to examine the interactions between history and literature in the Romantic period, focusing on practical as well as theoretical interconnections between the two genres and disciplines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 145mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780199687084
• ISBN-10: 0199687080
• Artikelnr.: 47865834

Autorenporträt

Dr Porscha Fermanis is a Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. Her research interests include the relationship between Enlightenment and Romanticism; Romantic-era historiography and historical fiction; and Romantic poetry and poetics. She has published John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), and is currently working on A Concise History of Romanticism (with Carmen Casaliggi, forthcoming 2015) and a monograph entitled Romantic Pasts: Narrative History in Britain and Ireland, 1770-1850. Dr John Regan is a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. His current research interests centre on the inter-relatedness of poetry, aesthetics, and historiography in the long eighteenth-century. Dr Regan has published on Scott's prosody, philosophical history and late Enlightenment antiquarianism, and the relations between versification and historiography in Byron.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* History, Genre, Rhetoric
* The History Girls: Charlotte Smith's History of England and the
Politics of Women's Educational History
* 'The fanciful traditions of early nations': History, Myth, and
Orientalist Poetry in India Prior to James Mill
* No 'Nonsense upon stilts': James Mill's History of British India and
the Poetics of Benthamite Historiography
* A 'poor crotchety picture of several things': Antiquarianism,
Subjectivity, and the Novel in Thomas Carlyle's Letters and Speeches
of Oliver Cromwell
* Historical Space and Time
* 'To trace thy country's glories to their source': Dangerous History
in Thomas Pennant's Tour in Wales
* Historicism, Temporalization, and Romantic Prophecy in Percy
Shelley's Hellas
* Magazines, Don Juan, and the Scotch Novels: Deep and Shallow Time in
the Regency
* 'Diamonds by Which the Eye is Charmed': Facets of Romantic
Historiography in the Works of Richard Parkes Bonington
* Aesthetics of History
* The Same Rehearsal of the Past: Byron and the Aesthetics of History
and Culture
* Byron, Clare, and Poetic Historiography
* Historical Fiction and the Fractured Atlantic
* A Bookish History of Irish Romanticism