Reading Public Romanticism / / Paul Magnuson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Magnuson, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 391
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations and Key Words --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER One. The Corresponding Society: The Public Discourse --; CHAPTER Two. The Corresponding Society: Reading the Correspondence --; CHAPTER Three. The Politics of "Frost at Midnight" --; CHAPTER Four. The Mariner's Extravagance and the Tempests of Lyrical Ballads --; CHAPTER Five. The Dedication of Don Juan --; CHAPTER Six. Keats's "Leaf-Fringed Legend" --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400864799; 9783110413441; 9783110413533; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400864799
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Paul Magnuson.

Reading Public Romanticism is a significant new example of the linking of esthetics and historical criticism. Here Paul Magnuson locates Romantic poetry within a public discourse that combines politics and esthetics, nationalism and domesticity, sexuality and morality, law and legitimacy. Building on his well-regarded previous work, Magnuson practices a methodology of close historical reading by identifying precise versions of poems, reading their rhetoric of allusion and "ation in the contexts of their original publication, and describing their public genres, such as the letter. He studies the author's public signature or motto, the forms and significance of address used in poems, and the resonances of poetic language and tropes in the public debates.According to Magnuson, "reading locations" means reading the writing that surrounds a poem, the "paratext" or "frame" of the esthetic boundary. In their particular locations in the public discourse, romantic poems are illocutionary speech acts that take a stand on public issues and legitimate their authors both as public characters and as writers. He traces the public significance of canonical poems commonly considered as lyrics with little explicit social or political commentary, including Wordsworth's "Immortality Ode"; Coleridge's "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," "Frost at Midnight," and "The Ancient Mariner"; and Keats's "On a Grecian Urn." He also positions Byron's Dedication to Don Juan in the debates over Southey's laureateship and claims for poetic authority and legitimacy. Reading Public Romanticism is a thoughtful and revealing work.Originally published in 1998.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.