Reading public romanticism

by Magnuson, Paul

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Full title :Reading public romanticism / Paul Magnuson.

Summary

Reading Public Romanticism is a significant new example of the linking of esthetics and historical criticism. Here Paul Magnuson locates Romantic poetry within a public discourse that combines politics and esthetics, nationalism and domesticity, sexuality and morality, law and legitimacy. Building on his well-regarded previous work, Magnuson practices a methodology of close historical reading by identifying precise versions of poems, reading their rhetoric of allusion and quotation in the contexts of their original publication, and describing their public genres, such as the letter. He studies the author's public signature or motto, the forms and significance of address used in poems, and the resonances of poetic language and tropes in the public debates. According to Magnuson, "reading locations" means reading the writing that surrounds a poem, the "paratext" or "frame" of the esthetic boundary. In their particular locations in the public discourse, romantic poems are illocutionary speech acts that take a stand on public issues and legitimate their authors both as public characters and as writers. He traces the public significance of canonical poems commonly considered as lyrics with little explicit social or political commentary, including Wordsworth's "Immortality Ode"; Coleridge's "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," "Frost at Midnight," and "The Ancient Mariner"; and Keats's "On a Grecian Urn." He also positions Byron's Dedication to Don Juan in the debates over Southey's laureateship and claims for poetic authority and legitimacy. Reading Public Romanticism is a thoughtful and revealing work. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1998

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
Place of Publication:Princeton, New Jersey
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1998

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (231 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781400864799, 1400864798, 9780691057941, 069105794X, 0691609047, 9780691609041
DOI:10.1515/9781400864799
oclc:ocn889251278
LC Classification:PR590
Dewey Decimal:821/.709145

Subjects

Actes de parole Authors and readers Authors and readers -- History -- 19th … Criticism, interpretation, etc Écrivains et lecteurs -- Histoire -- 19… English poetry English poetry -- History and criticism… English poetry -- History and criticism… Genres littéraires -- Histoire -- 18e s… Genres littéraires -- Histoire -- 19e s… Great Britain History LITERARY CRITICISM -- European Literary form Literary form -- History -- 18th century Literary form -- History -- 19th century Literature and society Literature and society -- History -- 19… Littérature et société -- Histoire -- 1… Opinion publique -- Histoire -- 18e siè…