Author: Angela Esterhammer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108493955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Illuminates Britain's literary field during the 1820s as a decade of improvisation, speculation and rapid cultural change.
Print and Performance in the 1820s
Author: Angela Esterhammer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108493955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Illuminates Britain's literary field during the 1820s as a decade of improvisation, speculation and rapid cultural change.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108493955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Illuminates Britain's literary field during the 1820s as a decade of improvisation, speculation and rapid cultural change.
Byron's Don Juan
Author: Richard Cronin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100936619X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
In this first full-length study of Byron's masterpiece in over thirty years, Richard Cronin boldly presents Don Juan as the epic poem of its age. Impressively illuminating the whole literary nineteenth century through a single work, he asks what kind of epic can be said to represent an era more readily defined by newspapers and magazines than by competitors such as Wordsworth's Excursion or Southey's Joan of Arc arose. Delving into questions of form and choice of hero, he also explores the controversies that informed the poem's reception, its contemporary interactions, and its influence on later nineteenth-century literature. Don Juan, he argues, is the epic poem demanded by an age of cant and dissembling, when people's feelings and the world they lived in had become disconnected. In it, he finds a powerful defence of liberal thinking at a time when that kind of thinking was under threat.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100936619X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
In this first full-length study of Byron's masterpiece in over thirty years, Richard Cronin boldly presents Don Juan as the epic poem of its age. Impressively illuminating the whole literary nineteenth century through a single work, he asks what kind of epic can be said to represent an era more readily defined by newspapers and magazines than by competitors such as Wordsworth's Excursion or Southey's Joan of Arc arose. Delving into questions of form and choice of hero, he also explores the controversies that informed the poem's reception, its contemporary interactions, and its influence on later nineteenth-century literature. Don Juan, he argues, is the epic poem demanded by an age of cant and dissembling, when people's feelings and the world they lived in had become disconnected. In it, he finds a powerful defence of liberal thinking at a time when that kind of thinking was under threat.
Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s
Author: Jon Mee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107133610
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Reveals the development of the idea of 'the people' through print and publicity in 1790s London. This title is also available as Open Access.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107133610
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Reveals the development of the idea of 'the people' through print and publicity in 1790s London. This title is also available as Open Access.
The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830
Author: Diane Piccitto
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472129767
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
The Visual Life of Romantic Theater examines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and aesthetic change. Situating theatrical production as key to understanding visuality ca. 1780-1830, this book places the stage front and center in Romantic scholarship by re-envisioning traditional approaches to artistic and social creation in the period. How, it asks, did dramaturgy and stagecraft influence aesthetic and sociopolitical concerns? How does a focus on visuality expand our understanding of the historical experience of theatergoing? In what ways did stage performance converge with visual culture beyond the theater? How did extratheatrical genres engage with theatrical sight and spectacle? Finally, how does a focus on dramatic vision change the way we conceive of Romanticism itself? The volume’s essays by emerging and established scholars provide exciting and suggestive answers to these questions, along with a more capacious conception of Romantic theater as a locus of visual culture that reached well beyond playhouse walls.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472129767
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
The Visual Life of Romantic Theater examines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and aesthetic change. Situating theatrical production as key to understanding visuality ca. 1780-1830, this book places the stage front and center in Romantic scholarship by re-envisioning traditional approaches to artistic and social creation in the period. How, it asks, did dramaturgy and stagecraft influence aesthetic and sociopolitical concerns? How does a focus on visuality expand our understanding of the historical experience of theatergoing? In what ways did stage performance converge with visual culture beyond the theater? How did extratheatrical genres engage with theatrical sight and spectacle? Finally, how does a focus on dramatic vision change the way we conceive of Romanticism itself? The volume’s essays by emerging and established scholars provide exciting and suggestive answers to these questions, along with a more capacious conception of Romantic theater as a locus of visual culture that reached well beyond playhouse walls.
Serial Forms
Author: Clare Pettitt
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198830424
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Studies 'seriality' in nineteenth-century literary and popular print culture, focusing on literacy and the material history of reading in the period from 1815 to 1848.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198830424
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Studies 'seriality' in nineteenth-century literary and popular print culture, focusing on literacy and the material history of reading in the period from 1815 to 1848.
The Moving Body and the English Romantic Imaginary
Author: Kristin Flieger Samuelian
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100038778X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The Moving Body and the English Romantic Imaginary explores ways in which England in the Romantic period conceptualized its relation both to its constituent parts within the United Kingdom and to the larger world through discussions of dance, dancing, and dancers, and through theories of dance and performance. As a referent that both engaged and constructed the body—through physical training, anatomization, spectacle and spectatorship, pathology, parody, and sentiment—dance worked to produce an English exceptional body. Discussions of dance in fiction and periodical essays, as well as its visual representation in print culture, were important ways to theorize points of contact as England was investing itself in the world as an economic and imperial power during and after the Revolutionary period. These formulations offer dance as an engine for the reconfiguration of gender, class, and national identity in the print culture of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100038778X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The Moving Body and the English Romantic Imaginary explores ways in which England in the Romantic period conceptualized its relation both to its constituent parts within the United Kingdom and to the larger world through discussions of dance, dancing, and dancers, and through theories of dance and performance. As a referent that both engaged and constructed the body—through physical training, anatomization, spectacle and spectatorship, pathology, parody, and sentiment—dance worked to produce an English exceptional body. Discussions of dance in fiction and periodical essays, as well as its visual representation in print culture, were important ways to theorize points of contact as England was investing itself in the world as an economic and imperial power during and after the Revolutionary period. These formulations offer dance as an engine for the reconfiguration of gender, class, and national identity in the print culture of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England.
Literature in a Time of Migration
Author: Josephine McDonagh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192648861
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Literature in a Time of Migration offers a profound rethinking of British fiction in light of the new practices of human mobility that reshaped the nineteenth-century world. Building on the growing critical engagement with globalization in literary studies, it confronts the paradox that at a time when transnational human movement occurred globally on an unprecedented scale, British fiction appeared to turn inward to tell stories of local places that valorized stability and rootedness. In contrast, this book reveals how literary works, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the advent of the New Imperialism, were active components of a culture of colonization and emigration. Fictional texts, as print commodities, were enmeshed in technologies of transport and communication, and innovations in literary form were spurred by the conditions and consequences of human movement. Examining works by Scott, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, and George Eliot, as well as popular contemporaries, Mary Russell Mitford, John Galt, and Thomas Martin Wheeler, this volume demonstrates how literary texts overlap with an agenda set in public discussions of colonial emigration that they also helped to shape. Debates about assisted emigration, 'forced' and 'free' migration, colonization, settlement, and the removal of native peoples, figure in fictions in complex ways. Read alongside writings by emigration theorists, practitioners, and enthusiasts for colonization, fictional texts reveal a powerful and sustained engagement with British migratory practices and their worldwide consequences. Literature in a Time of Migration is a timely reminder of the place and importance of migration within British cultural heritage.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192648861
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Literature in a Time of Migration offers a profound rethinking of British fiction in light of the new practices of human mobility that reshaped the nineteenth-century world. Building on the growing critical engagement with globalization in literary studies, it confronts the paradox that at a time when transnational human movement occurred globally on an unprecedented scale, British fiction appeared to turn inward to tell stories of local places that valorized stability and rootedness. In contrast, this book reveals how literary works, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the advent of the New Imperialism, were active components of a culture of colonization and emigration. Fictional texts, as print commodities, were enmeshed in technologies of transport and communication, and innovations in literary form were spurred by the conditions and consequences of human movement. Examining works by Scott, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, and George Eliot, as well as popular contemporaries, Mary Russell Mitford, John Galt, and Thomas Martin Wheeler, this volume demonstrates how literary texts overlap with an agenda set in public discussions of colonial emigration that they also helped to shape. Debates about assisted emigration, 'forced' and 'free' migration, colonization, settlement, and the removal of native peoples, figure in fictions in complex ways. Read alongside writings by emigration theorists, practitioners, and enthusiasts for colonization, fictional texts reveal a powerful and sustained engagement with British migratory practices and their worldwide consequences. Literature in a Time of Migration is a timely reminder of the place and importance of migration within British cultural heritage.
Regional Romanticism
Author: Gerard Lee McKeever
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031613252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031613252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Writing Time
Author: Sean Franzel
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501772589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Writing Time shows how serial literature based in journals and anthologies shaped the awareness of time at a transformative moment in the European literary and political landscapes. Sean Franzel explores how German-speaking authors and editors "write time" both by writing about time and by mapping time itself through specific literary formats. Through case studies of such writers as F. J. Bertuch, K. A. Böttinger, J. W. Goethe, Ludwig Börne, and Heinrich Heine, Franzel analyzes how serial writing predicated on open-ended continuation becomes a privileged mode of social commentary and literary entertainment and provides readers with an ongoing "history" of the present, or Zeitgeschichte. Drawing from media theory and periodical studies as well as from Reinhart Koselleck's work on processes of temporalization and "untimely" models of historical time, Writing Time presents "smaller" literary forms—the urban tableau, cultural reportage, and caricature—as new ways of imagining temporal unfolding, recentering periodicals and other serial forms at the heart of nineteenth-century print culture.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501772589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Writing Time shows how serial literature based in journals and anthologies shaped the awareness of time at a transformative moment in the European literary and political landscapes. Sean Franzel explores how German-speaking authors and editors "write time" both by writing about time and by mapping time itself through specific literary formats. Through case studies of such writers as F. J. Bertuch, K. A. Böttinger, J. W. Goethe, Ludwig Börne, and Heinrich Heine, Franzel analyzes how serial writing predicated on open-ended continuation becomes a privileged mode of social commentary and literary entertainment and provides readers with an ongoing "history" of the present, or Zeitgeschichte. Drawing from media theory and periodical studies as well as from Reinhart Koselleck's work on processes of temporalization and "untimely" models of historical time, Writing Time presents "smaller" literary forms—the urban tableau, cultural reportage, and caricature—as new ways of imagining temporal unfolding, recentering periodicals and other serial forms at the heart of nineteenth-century print culture.
Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
Author: John Claiborne Isbell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009362720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Combating two centuries of sexism, this radical overview of Staël in context reveals a major player in Revolution and Romanticism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009362720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Combating two centuries of sexism, this radical overview of Staël in context reveals a major player in Revolution and Romanticism.