Handbook of British Romanticism / / Ralf Haekel.

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• TeilnehmendeR: Haekel, Ralf,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Handbooks of English and American Studies ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (725 p.)

The Handbook of British Romanticism is a state of the art investigation of Romantic literature and theory, a field that probably changed more quickly and more fundamentally than any other traditional era in literary studies. Since the early 1980s, Romantic studies has widened its scope significantly: The canon has been expanded, hitherto ignored genres have been investigated and new topics of research explored. After these profound changes, intensified by the general crisis of literary theory since the turn of the millennium, traditional concepts such as subjectivity, imagination and the creative genius have lost their status as paradigms defining Romanticism. The handbook will feature discussions of key concepts such as history, class, gender, science and the use of media as well as a thorough account of the most central literary genres around the turn of the 19th century. The focus of the book, however, will lie on a discussion of key literary texts in the light of the most recent theoretical developments. Thus, the Handbook of British Romanticism will provide students with an introduction to Romantic literature in general and literary scholars with a discussion of innovative and groundbreaking theoretical developments.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 0. Romanticism and Theory: An Introduction / Haekel, Ralf -- Part I. Systematic Questions -- 1. Political and Social History c. 1780-1832 / Sedlmayr, Gerold -- 2. Gender and Class / Schabert, Ina -- 3. Regional Romanticisms / Rennhak, Katharina -- 4. Urban Romanticism / Gurr, Jens Martin -- 5. Romanticism and the Philosophy of Religion / Prickett, Stephen -- 6. Popular and Media Culture / Reinfandt, Christoph -- 7. Science and Knowledge / Berns, Ute -- 8. The European Context / Lessenich, Rolf -- Part II. Romantic Genres -- 9. The Lyric / O'Neill, Michael -- 10. Theatre and Drama / Burwick, Frederick -- 11. Fiction / Heinen, Sandra -- 12. Romantic Travel Books / Meyer, Michael -- Part III. Close Readings -- 13. Robert Burns, Selected Poetry (1791-1795) / Sandrock, Kirsten -- 14. William Blake, America (1793) / Lüdeke, Roger -- 15. William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794) / Schwalm, Helga -- 16. Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) / Alber, Jan -- 17. Joanna Baillie, Plays on the Passions (1798) / Schaff, Barbara -- 18. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798, 1800) / Domsch, Sebastian -- 19. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798) / Vigus, James -- 20. Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (1800) / Fest, Kerstin -- 21. William Wordsworth, The Prelude (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850) / Bruhn, Mark J. -- 22. Mary Tighe, Psyche (1805) / Linkin, Harriet Kramer -- 23. Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), The Wild Irish Girl (1806) / Haekel, Ralf -- 24. Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head (1807) / Radu, Anca-Raluca -- 25. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812) / Murphy, Olivia -- 26. Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies (1808- 1834) / Pointner, Frank Erik / Weißenfels, Dennis -- 27. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813) / Bayerlipp, Susanne / Schlegel, Johannes -- 28. Sir Walter Scott, Waverley (1814) / Reitemeier, Frauke -- 29. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) / Schlegel, Johannes -- 30. Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-1824) / Lennartz, Norbert -- 31. John Keats, The Odes (1819) / Müller, Wolfgang G. -- 32. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Selected Poetry (1819-1822) / Schmid, Susanne -- 33. Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) / Meifert-Menhard, Felicitas -- 34. James Hogg, The Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) / Campbell, Ian -- 35. Felicia Hemans, The Forest Sanctuary (1825) / Saglia, Diego -- 36. William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age (1825) / Cook, Jon -- 37. Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death's Jest-Book (1829) / van Woudenberg, Maximiliaan -- 38. Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1833-1834) / Fischer, Tiana M. -- Index of Subjects and Places -- Index of Names and Works -- List of Contributors