Rethinking British romantic history, 1770-1845
Fermanis, PorschaContributor
Regan, JohnContributor
Regan, JohnEditor
Fermanis, PorschaEditor
'Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845' brings together a team of leading scholars to examine the interactions between history and literature in the Romantic period, focusing on practical as well as theoretical interconnections between the two genres and disciplines.
The history girls : Charlotte Smith's History of England and the politics of women's educational history /​ Greg Kucich --  'The fanciful traditions of early nations' : history, myth, and orientalist poetry in India prior to James Mill /​ Daniel Sanjiv Roberts -- No 'nonsense upon stilts' : James Mill's History of British India and the poetics of Benthamite historiography /​ John Regan -- A 'poor crochety picture of several things' : antiquarianism, subjectivity, and the novel in Thomas Carlyle's Letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell /​ Porscha Fermanis -- 'To trace thy country's glories to their source' : dangerous history in Thomas Pennant's Tour in Wales /​ Mary-Ann Constantine -- Historicism, temporalization, and romantic prophecy in Percy Shelley's Hellas /​ Christopher Bundock -- Magazines, Don Juan, and the Scotch novels : deep and shallow time in the Regency /​ Richard Cronin -- 'Diamonds by which the eye is charmed' : facets of romantic historiography in the works of Richard Parkes Bonington /​ Rosemary Mitchell -- The same rehearsal of the past : Byron and the aesthetics of history and culture /​ Michael O'Neill -- Byron, Clare, and poetic historiography /​ Paul Hamilton -- Historical fiction and the fractured Atlantic /​ Fiona Robertson -- A bookish history of Irish Romanticism /​ Claire Connolly.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845' brings together a team of leading scholars to examine the interactions between history and literature in the Romantic period, focusing on practical as well as theoretical interconnections between the two genres and disciplines.
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Romanticism
British literature
British literature
Historiography
English
Languages & Literatures
English Literature