Day - Romanticism

ROMANTICISM

Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement that generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and critical issues of a crucial cultural era. This fully updated second edition includes:

Aidan Day is Professor of English at the University of Dundee, Scotland and has held Chairs in English at the University of Edinburgh and at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He specialises in literature of the long nineteenth century and in post-1945 literatures in English. He is the author of numerous articles and his books include Tennysons Scepticism (2005), Angela Carter: The Rational Glass (1998), Romanticism (First Edition, 1996) and Jokerman: Reading the Lyrics of Bob Dylan (1988). He is also co-editor, with Christopher Ricks, of The Tennyson Archive, 31 vols, 198793.

THE NEW CRITICAL IDIOM

SERIES EDITOR: JOHN DRAKAKIS, UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING

The New Critical Idiom is an invaluable series of introductory guides to todays critical terminology. Each book:

With a strong emphasis on clarity, lively debate and the widest possible breadth of examples, The New Critical Idiom is an indispensable approach to key topics in literary studies.

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The Author by Andrew Bennett

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Adaptation and Appropriation by Julie Sanders

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The Postmodern by Simon Malpas

Realism by Pam Morris

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Romance by Barbara Fuchs

Romanticism second edition by Aidan Day

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ROMANTICISM

Second Edition

Aidan Day

First published 1996

by Routledge

This edition published 2012

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Day, Aidan.

Romanticism / Aidan Day. 2nd ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismTheory, etc. 2. English literature18th centuryHistory and criticismTheory, etc. 3. RomanticismGreat Britain. I. Title.

PR457.D38 2012

820.9145dc23

2011024741

ISBN: 978-0-415-46025-5 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-415-46026-2 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-14825-9 (ebk)

C ONTENTS

Series Editors Preface

The New Critical Idiom is a series of introductory books that seeks to extend the lexicon of literary terms, in order to address the radical changes that have taken place in the study of literature during the last decades of the twentieth century. The aim is to provide clear, well-illustrated accounts of the full range of terminology currently in use, and to evolve histories of its changing usage.

The current state of the discipline of literary studies is one where there is considerable debate concerning basic questions of terminology. This involves, among other things, the boundaries that distinguish the literary from the non-literary; the position of literature within the larger sphere of culture; the relationship between literatures of different cultures; and questions concerning the relation of literary to other cultural forms within the context of interdisciplinary studies.

It is clear that the field of literary criticism and theory is a dynamic and heterogeneous one. The present need is for individual volumes on terms that combine clarity of exposition with an adventurousness of perspective and a breadth of application. Each volume will contain as part of its apparatus some indication of the direction in which the definition of particular terms is likely to move, as well as expanding the disciplinary boundaries within which some of these terms have been traditionally contained. This will involve some re-situation of terms within the larger field of cultural representation, and will introduce examples from the area of film and the modern media in addition to examples from a variety of literary texts.