Repossessing the Romantic Past

Hardback

Main Details

Title Repossessing the Romantic Past
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Heather Glen
Edited by Paul Hamilton
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:266
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9780521858663
ClassificationsDewey:820.9007
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 2 November 2006
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Work on British Romanticism is often characterised as much by its conscious difference from preceding positions as it is by its approach to or choice of material. As a result, writing neglected or marginalised in one account will be restored to prominence in another, as we reconstruct the past as a history of the present. This collection of essays takes as its starting point the wide-ranging work of Marilyn Butler on Romantic literature, and includes contributions by some of the most prominent scholars of Romanticism working today. The essays offer interesting perspectives on Maria Edgeworth, Coleridge, Austen, Scott and others, showing that the openness of modern critical perceptions matches and reflects the diversity of the literature and culture of the Romantic period itself.

Author Biography

Heather Glen is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of New Hall. Paul Hamilton is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London.