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British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest

British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest

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Publisher's Synopsis

British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest explores the importance to Romantic literature of a concept of human interest. It examines a range of literary experiments to engage readers through subjects and styles that were at once "interesting" and that, in principle, were in their "interest." These experiments put in question relationships between poetry and prose; lyric and narrative; and literature and popular media. The book places literary works by a range of nineteenth-century writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary and Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and Matthew Arnold into dialogue with a variety of non-literary and paraliterary forms ranging from newspapers to footnotes. The book investigates the generic structures of Romantic literature and the negotiation of the status of literature in the period in relation to a new media landscape. It explores the self-theorization of Romantic literature and argues for its value to contemporary literary criticism.

Book information

ISBN: 9781611488685
Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
Imprint: Bucknell University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 820.914509034
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 206
Weight: 478g
Height: 160mm
Width: 238mm
Spine width: 29mm