Reading Public Romanticism

Reading Public Romanticism

by Magnuson, Paul

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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 conte…

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  • Full title :Reading Public Romanticism

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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.

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  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781400864799, 1400864798, 9780691057941, 069105794X
  • oclc:on1091522016
  • LC Classification:PR590
  • Dewey Decimal:821

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations and Key Words ; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE ; The Corresponding Society: The Public Discourse; CHAPTER TWO ; The Corresponding Society: Reading the Correspondence; CHAPTER THREE ; The Politics of ""Frost at Midnight""; CHAPTER FOUR ; The Mariner's Extravagance and the Tempests of Lyrical Ballads; CHAPTER FIVE ; The Dedication of Don Juan; CHAPTER SIX; Keats's ""Leaf-Fringed Legend""; Index.

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