English romantic writers and the West Country
By: edited by Nicholas Roe.
Contributors: Roe, Nicholas.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230223745
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Romanticism -- England; West Country (England) -- In literature
Description: "Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as Lakers and Cockneys, the diverse regional forms of English Romanticism are ripe for reassessment. Ranging west of a line between the Wye at Tintern and Jane Austens Chawton, this book offers a first reconfiguration of Romantic culture in terms of English regional identity"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations; title: Abbreviations; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Preface; title: R.Holmes; title: Introduction; title: N.Roe; title: PART I: LANDSCAPES AND LEGENDS; title: More wondrous far than Egypts boasted pyramids: The South Wests Megaliths in the Romantic Period; title: J.Parker; title: Al under the wyllowe tree: Chatterton and the Ecology of the West Country; title: N.Groom; title: PART II: THE BRISTOL SCHOOL: COTTLE, COLERIDGE, AND THEIR CIRCLES; title: Joseph Cottle and West-Country Romanticism; title: R.Cronin; title: William Gilbert and his Bristol Circle 1788-98; title: P.Cheshire; title: S.T. Coleridge, Joseph Cottle, and Some Bristol Baptists, 1794-96; title: T.Whelan; title: Coleridges Bristol and West Country Radicalism; title: P.J.Kitson; title: Radical Bible: Coleridges 1790s West Country Politics; title: A.J.Harding; title: PART III: IMAGINING THE WEST COUNTRY; title: Wordsworths 1793 Journey to the West Country and Wales; title: C.K.Walker; title: Coleridge in Devon; title: G.Davidson; title: Southeys West Country; title: L.Pratt; title: Romantic Hydrography: Tide and Transit in Tintern Abbey; title: D.W.Davies; title: The Road Not Taken: Robert Bloomfields Wye Valley and the Poetic Imagination; title: T.Fulford; title: PART IV: IN PURSUIT OF SPRING; title: The Outset of Life: Shelley, Hazlitt, the West Country, and the Revolutionary Imagination; title: M.ONeill; title: Over the Dartmoor Black: John Keats and the West Country; title: N.Roe; title: Going Westward: William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas; title: S.Yoshikawa; title: Afterword; title: T.Mayberry; title: Index.