Title: Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre: Re-forming Literature 1789-1837
Abstract: Notes on contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Tilottama Rajan and Julia M. Wright Part I. Genre, History, and the Public Sphere: 1. Godwin and the genre reformers: on necessity and contingency in romantic narrative theory Jon Klancher 2. Radical print culture in periodical form Kevin Gilmartin 3. History, trauma, and the limits of the liberal imagination: William Godwin's historical fiction Gary Handwerk 4. Writing on the border: the national tale, female writing, and the public sphere Ina Ferris Part II. Genre and Society: 5. Genres from life in Wordsworth's art: Lyrical Ballads 1798 Don Bialostosky 6. 'A voice in the representation': John Thelwall and the enfranchisement of literature Judith Thompson 7. 'I am ill-fitted': conflicts of genre in Elisa Fenwick's Secresy Julia M. Wright 8. Frankenstein as neo-Gothic: from the ghost of the couterfeit to the monster of abjection Jerrold E. Hogle Part III. Genre, Gender, and the Private Sphere: 9. Autonarration and genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney Tilottama Rajan 10. 'The science of herself': scenes of female enlightenment Mary Jacobus 11. The failures of romanticism Jerome McGann Index.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-11-02
Language: en
Type: book
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