Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet : : Form, Place and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century.

Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet : : Form, Place and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century.

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This book explores Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets and clarifies its 'place' - understood in multiple ways - in literary history. It argues that Smith's work engages more deeply with tradition than has hitherto been realised and revises our understanding not only of Smith'...

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Superior document:Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850 Series ; v.9
:
Roberts, Bethan.
Place / Publishing House:Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2019.
Ã2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850 Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Eighteenth-Century Sonnet
  • 2. Tradition
  • Nightingales
  • Streams
  • River Arun
  • Other Poetic Landscapes
  • 3. Innovation
  • The Sea
  • Breaking 'the silent Sabbath of the grave': Sonnet XLIV
  • Giddy Brinks and Lucid Lines
  • 4. Wider Prospect
  • Wider Prospect of the Sonnet Revival
  • Smith in Posterity: A Fragile Inheritance
  • 5. Botany to Beachy Head
  • Goddess of Botany
  • Economies of Vegetation
  • Gossamer
  • Beachy Head
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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