Counterfactual Romanticism (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Walford Davies, Damian

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Produktbeschreibung

Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Counterfactual Romanticism reveals the ways in which the shapes of Romanticism are conditioned by that which did not come to pass. Exploring various modalities of counterfactual speculation and inquiry across a range of Romantic-period authors, genres and concerns, this collection offers a radical new purchase on literary history, on the relationship between history and fiction, and on our historicist methods to date - and thus on the Romanticisms we (think we) have inherited. Counterfactual Romanticism provides a ground-breaking method of re-reading literary pasts and our own reading presents; in the process, literary production, texts and reading practices are unfossilised and defamiliarised.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526108012
• Artikelnr.: 57720319

Autorenporträt

Damian Walford Davies is Professor of English and Pro Vice-Chancellor (College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) at Cardiff University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Counterfactual Romanticism
Damian Walford Davies 1. 'The Object As In Itself It Really Is Not'. Counterfactual Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Contingency
Anne C. McCarthy 2. Door
to
door and Across
the
counter Factuals: History as Fashion, Furniture, Fraud, Forgery, Folklore and Fiction in the Romantic Onset of Modernity
Gary Kelly 3. The Possibilists: Romantic
Era Literary Forgery and British Alternative Pasts
Mary
Ann Constantine 4. Sophia Lee's The Recess and the Epistemology of the Counterfactual
Tilottama Rajan 5. Lord Byron Reads The Prelude
Kenneth R. Johnston 6. Counterfactual Obstetrics: Mary Wollstonecraft's Frankenstein
Damian Walford Davies 7. John Thelwall: A Counterfactual Ghost Story
Judith Thompson 8. Counterfactual Speculations in Late Romanticism: Scott, Banim, Galt and Mitford
Angela Esterhammer 9. Piratical Counterfactual, Piratical Counterfictional: From Misson to Melodrama
Manushag N. Powell 10. Romanticism and the (Counterfactual) Chinese Awakening
Peter J. Kitson 11. Counterfactual and Future Romanticisms: The Academy and The Canon
Edward Larrissy Index