Gothic romanticism
Subtitle: architecture, politics, and literary form
By: Tom Duggett.
Series: Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780230615328
Subjects: Lake poets; English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Gothic literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; Literary form -- History -- 19th century; Romanticism -- Great Britain; Architecture in literature; Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain; National characteristics, American, in literature
Description: "Gothic Romanticism relates architecture, politics, and literary form to read afresh the works of the Lake Poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey. Reading a wide range of canonical and lesser-read texts, including Wordsworth and Coleridge's The Recluse, Wordsworth's The Convention of Cintra, and Southey's Roderick, the Last of the Goths, the book recovers the collaborative project of these poets for a purified "Gothic" poetry. The book positions this cultural enterprise in relation to the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival, and argues for a powerful analogy between the Romantic culture of the Gothic and the medievalism of contemporary Anglo-American culture and society"--Provided by publisher.