Romanticism and the uses of genre
By: David Duff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780199572748
Description: "This wide-ranging and original book reappraises the role of genre, and genre theory, in British Romanticism. Analysing numerous examples from 1760 to 1830, [author] examines the generic innovations and experiments which propel the Romantic 'revolution in literature', but also the fascination with archaic forms such as the ballad, sonnet, epic, and romance, whose revival and transformation make Romanticism a retro movement as well as a revolutionary one."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: The old imperial code. The disorder of things; The neoclassical genre-system; Genre versus genius; The cognitive turn; title: Romantic genre theory. Anglo-German dialogues; The revolutionary contex; The language of forms; Wordsworth in 1815; title: (Anti-)didacticism. Pure and applied poetry; Palpable designs; The didactic poem; Aesthetic Education; title: Archaism and innovation. Ancients and moderns; The antiquarian dilemma; Make old, make it new; The dialectic of revivalism; title: The combinatorial method. Origins and absolutes; rough-mixing and smooth-mixing; The politics of miscellany; Shelley and the 'great poem'.