Northrop Frye's Writings on the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / / Imre Salusinszky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Salusinszky, Imre,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye ; 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Highlighting aspects of his scholarship seldom given sufficient emphasis, this new volume of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye documents Frye's writings on the literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (apart from those on William Blake, which are featured in other volumes).The volume includes Frye's seminal 1956 essay "Towards Defining an Age of Sensibility" and the highly influential 1968 book A Study of English Romanticism. With these pieces and the other published and unpublished works contained in the volume, Frye changed the way the transition from the major Augustan figures to the Romantics was viewed. These works are a central part of Frye's long and radical rethinking of the relation of romance and Romanticism and, through them, he emerges as a meticulous textual critic, teasing out the fine brushstroke effects in writers as varied as Boswell and Beddoes, Dickens and Dickinson.Imre Salusinszky's introduction and annotation illuminates Frye's writing and guides the reader along the path of Frye's five-decade development of thought on Romanticism. This volume is an invaluable contribution to studies on Frye, as well as to Romantic and Victorian literature.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Credits -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- On the Eighteenth Century -- 1. The Young Boswell -- 2. Towards Defining an Age of Sensibility -- 3. Nature Methodized -- 4. Varieties of Eighteenth-Century Sensibility -- On Romanticism -- 5. CBC Goethe Salute -- 6. Long Sequacious Notes -- 7. Lord Byron -- 8. Foreword to Romanticism Reconsidered -- 9. The Drunken Boat: The Revolutionary Element in Romanticism -- 10. A Study of English Romanticism -- 11. John Keats -- 12. Kathleen Hazel Coburn -- 13. How It Was -- 14. In the Earth, or in the Air? -- On the Nineteenth Century -- 15. Review of Patience and The Silver Box -- 16. Review of H.M.S. Pinafore -- 17. Iolanthe -- 18. Review of lolanthe -- 19. Review of Bradbrook's Ibsen the Norwegian -- 20. James, Le Fanu, and Morris -- 21. An Important Influence -- 22. Joan Evans's John Ruskin -- 23. Emily Dickinson -- 24. The Problem of Spiritual Authority in the Nineteenth Century -- 25. Dickens and the Comedy of Humours -- 26. The Meeting of Past and Future in William Morris -- 27. The World as Music and Idea in Wagner's Parsifal -- 28. Some Reflections on Life and Habit -- Notes -- Emendations -- Index