Romantic echoes in the Victorian era
by Radford, Andrew Sandy, Mark
This study reassesses Romantic literature's immediate cultural and literary legacy in the late 19th century, showing how the Victorian writings of such writers as Matthew Arnold, Wilkie Collins, the Brontës, the Brownings, Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens were instrumental in shaping Romanticism as a cultural phenomenon.
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- Full title :Romantic echoes in the Victorian era / edited by Andrew Radford and Mark Sandy.
Summary
This study reassesses Romantic literature's immediate cultural and literary legacy in the late 19th century, showing how the Victorian writings of such writers as Matthew Arnold, Wilkie Collins, the Brontës, the Brownings, Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens were instrumental in shaping Romanticism as a cultural phenomenon.
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- Publication Date:©2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Ashgate
- Place of Publication:Aldershot, Hampshire
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xi, 237 pages : : illustrations.).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781315243917 (electronic bk), 1315243911 (electronic bk), 0754657884, 9780754657880, 9781351902489, 1351902482, 9781351902472, 1351902474
- oclc:on1100471337
- LC Classification:PR468.R65
- Dewey Decimal:820.9/145
Table of Contents
A finer tone : Victorian lives of Mrs. Barbauld and Mrs. Shelley / Lisa Vargo -- 'Wandering between two worlds' : the Victorian afterlife of Thomas Chatterton / Julie Crane -- Dead Keats : Joseph Severn, John Keats and the haunting of Victorian culture / Andrew Bennett -- 'The wind blows cold out of the inner shrine of fear' : Rossetti's romantic Keats / Sarah Wootton -- Rival cultures : Charles Dickens and the Byronic legacy / Vincent Newey -- 'Mr. Osborne's secret' : Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and daughters and the gender of Romanticism / James Najarian -- 'Fallen angels' : Hardy's Shelleyan critique in the final Wessex novels / Andrew Radford -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Victorian versions of Bryon and Wollstonecraft : Romantic genealogies, self-defining memories and the genesis of Aurora Leigh / Marjorie Stone -- Wordsworth, Hopkins and the intercession of angels / J.R. Watson -- 'Echoes of that voice' : Romantic resonances in Victorian poetic birdsong / Mark Sandy -- 'Infinite passion' : variations on a Romantic topic in Robert Browning, Emily Brontë, Swinburne, Hopkins, Wilde and Dowson / Michael O'Neill -- Liberating boyhood / Ve-Yin Tee -- Prometheus rebound : the Roman…
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