Legacies of romanticism
Subtitle: literature, aesthetics, landscape
By: edited by Carmen Casaliggi and Paul March-Russell
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Routledge studies in romanticism ; vv.17
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780415890083
Subjects: Art and literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Postmodernism (Literature); English literature; Romanticism; Aestheticism (Literature); History and criticism; British Aesthetics; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Carmen Casaliggi and Paul March-Russell; title: Early and mid-Victorian. Hazlitt as a gateway to nineteenth century ekphrasis: the quarrel with Reynolds revisited / Richard Read; Ruskin's Keats: a joy for ever (and its price in the market), "the mystery of life and its arts", and the resonance of the Severn Circle / Carmen Casaliggi; Anatomizing the "case": Shelley's The cenci, Browning's The ring and the book, and the origins of the dramatic monologue / Porscha Fermanis; Burney's wanderers and Bronté's silent revolts: revolution, vagrancy and gender / Muireann O'Cinneide; title: Late Victorian and Edwardian. Shelley's alchemy, Pater's transformations / Catherine Maxwell; The new pygmalions: idealism and disillusionment in Hazlitt's Liber amoris and Lee's Miss Brown / Patricia Pulham; Late Victorian responses to romanticism: Wordsworth, Wilde's poems and other inheritances / Ruth Robbins; Pole to Pole: romantic apocalypse at the Victorian fin de siècle / Matthew Bradley; title: Modernism and postmodernism. Louis MacNeice and the struggle for romantic identity / Madeleine Callaghan; The neo-romantic Wyndham Lewis / Paul March-Russell;  Neo-romantic visionaries: picturing Britain in the Second World War / Stella Hockenhull; The last of the romantics? The accidental investigator in postmodern detective fiction / Stefania Ciocia; title: Postcolonialism and theoretical studies. "Dark interpretations": romanticism's ambiguous legacy in India / Daniel Sanjiv Roberts; Diaspora and its romanticism(s): the fiction of Bharati Mukherjee and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni / Ellen Dengel-Janic; Romanticism and unhappiness: melancholy as a romantic legacy / Simon Swift;  Present prophesy: the transformation of romantic rhetoric in and by new media /Joseph Tabbi.