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Romanticism and time literary temporalities
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Romanticism and time [electronic resource] : literary temporalities / edited by Sophie Laniel-Musitelli and Céline Sabiron.
ISBN
9781800640733
9781800640740
9781800640757
9781800640764
9781800640719 (pbk.)
9781800640726 (hbk.)
Publication
Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (314 pages) : 12 colour illustrations.
Access and use
Unrestricted online access.
This text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.
Summary
"'Eternity is in love with the productions of time'. This original edited volume takes William Blake's aphorism as a basis to explore how British Romantic literature creates its own sense of time. It considers Romantic poetry as embedded in and reflecting on the march of time, regarding it not merely as a reaction to the course of events between the late-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, but also as a form of creative engagement with history in the making. The authors offer a comprehensive overview of the question of time from a literary perspective, applying a diverse range of critical approaches to Romantic authors from William Blake and Percy Shelley to John Clare and Samuel Rodgers. Close readings uncover fresh insights into these authors and their works, including Frankenstein, the most familiar of Romantic texts. Revising current thinking about periodisation, the authors explore how the Romantic poetics of time bears witness to the ruptures and dislocations at work within chronological time. They consider an array of topics, such as ecological time, futurity, operatic time, or the a-temporality of Venice. As well as surveying the Romantic canon's evolution over time, these essays approach it as a phenomenon unfolding across national borders. Romantic authors are compared with American or European counterparts including Beethoven, Irving, Nietzsche and Beckett. Romanticism and Time will be of great value to literary scholars and students working in Romantic Studies. It will be of further interest to philosophers and historians working on the connections between philosophy, history and literature during the nineteenth century."--Publisher's website.
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Open book publishers.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 28, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-272) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The Times of Romanticism / Sophie Laniel-Musitelli and Céline Sabiron
Section I: Restoration, Revival, and Revolution across Romantic Europe. 1. Future Restoration / Paul Hamilton ; 2. Anthropocene Temporalities and British Romantic Poetry / Evan Gottlieb ; 3. Beethoven: Revolutionary Transformations / Gregory Dart
Section II: Romantic Conceptions of Time. 4. The Temporality of the Soul: Immanent Conceptions of Time in Wordsworth and Byron / Ralf Haekel ; 5. 'Footing slow across a silent plain': Time and Walking in Keatsian Poetics / Oriane Monthéard
Section III: The Poetics of Time. 6. Contracting Time: John Clare's The Shepherd's Calendar / Lily Dessau ; 7. Book-Time in Charles Lamb and Washington Irving / Matthew Redmond ; 8. 'A disciple of Albertus Magnus [...] in the eighteenth century': Anachronism and Anachrony in Frankenstein / Anne Rouhette
Section IV: Persistence and Afterlives. 9. Heaps of Time in Beckett and Shelley / Laura Quinney ; 10. 'Thy Wreck a Glory': Venice, Subjectivity, and Temporality in Byron and Shelley and the Post-Romantic Imagination / Mark Sandy
Section V: Romanticism and Periodisation. Romanticism and Periodisation: A Roundtable / David Duff, Nicholas Halmi, Fiona Stafford, Martin Procházka and Laurent Folliot.
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