Satire and romanticism
By: Steven E. Jones.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Satire, English -- History and criticism.; Verse satire, English -- History and criticism.; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Description: "This study of the constructive and ultimately canon-forming relationship between satiric and Romantic modes of writing from 1760 to 1832 provides us with a new understanding of the historical development of Romanticism as a literary movement. Romantic poetry is conventionally seen as inward-turning, sentimental, sublime, and transcendent, whereas satire, with its public, profane, and topical rhetoric, is commonly cast in the role of generic other - as the un-Romantic mode.

This book argues instead that the two modes mutually defined each other and were subtly interwoven during the Romantic period."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-255) and index.