Placing and displacing romanticism
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Placing and displacing romanticism
(Nineteenth century series)
Ashgate, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Romanticism has often been concerned with the literal sense of "place". British Romanticism has variously been placed in the West Country, the Lake District, North Wales, the Wye Valley and Scotland. It also shows a concern with the "place" in an antithetical sense, imagining a city as an artificial and corrupting phenomenon. The dialogue of place and displacement as a feature of Romatic period writing is often regarded as a response to the great historical movements of urbanization and industrialization that marked late 18th- and 19th-century British life. "Displacement" was also a significant usage in Romanticism. It could be interpreted as alienation or the displacement of historical, social and political tensions at the time. The essays in this volume interpret the critical issues of "place" and "displacement", "placing" and "displacing" in their figurative and their literal senses. They show a desire to return to the compexity of the texts and the contexts in which they were written, and argue that Romantic texts are self-conscious and self-reflective.
Table of Contents
- Placing and displacing Romanticism, Peter J. Kitson
- cultivating Margaret's garden - Wordsworthian "nature" and the quest for historical "difference", Paul D. Sheats
- Wordsworth's "The Haunted Tree" and the sexual politics of landscape, Tim Fulford
- John Clare's gypsies - problems of placement and displacement in romantic critical practice, Philip Martin
- how Wordsworth keeps his audience fit, Lucy Newlyn
- Jacobin Romanticism - John Thelwall's "Wye" essay and "Pedestrian Excursion" (1797-1801), Michael Scrivener
- patriot poetics and the romantic national epic - placing and displacing Southey's "Joan of Arc", Lynda Pratt
- re-placing Waterloo - Southey's vision of command, Philip Shaw
- subverting the command of place - panorama and the Romantics, Michael Charlesworth
- displacing Romanticism -Anna Seward, Joseph Weston, and the unschooled sons of genius, John Williams
- placing and displacing Keats, Michael O'Neill
- masking in Keats, Thomas McFarland
- locationary acts - Blake's "Jerusalem" and Holderlin's "Patmos", Angela Esterhammer
- the Romantics - cosmopolitans or nationalists?, Mary Anne Perkins
- romantic displacements - representing cannibalism, Peter J. Kitson.
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