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Romanticism, history, and the possibilities of genre : re-forming literature, 1789-1837

"Romanticism has often been associated with the mode of lyric, or otherwise confined within mainstream genres. As a result, we have neglected the sheer diversity and generic hybridity of a literature that ranged from the Gothic novel to the national tale, from monthly periodicals to fictionalized autobiography. In this new volume some of the leading scholars of the period explore the ways in which the Romantics developed genre from a taxonomical given into a cultural category, so as to make it the scene of an ongoing struggle between fixed norms and new initiatives." "Focusing on non-canonical writers (such as Thelwall, Godwin, and the novelists of the 1790s), or placing authors such as Wordsworth and Byron in a non-canonical context, these essays explore the psychic and social politics of genre from a variety of theoretical perspectives, while the introduction looks at how genre itself was rethought by Romantic criticism."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1998
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998
Kongress London (Ontario) 1993
xiv, 291 pages ; 24 cm
9780521581929, 0521581923
36485842
Godwin and the genre reformers / Jon Klancher
Radical print culture in periodical form / Kevin Gilmartin
History, trauma, and the limits of the liberal imagination / Gary Handwerk
Writing on the border / Ina Ferris
Genres from life in Wordsworth's art / Don Bialostosky
A voice in the representation / Judith Thompson
I am ill fitted / Julia M. Wright
Frankenstein as neo-Gothic / Jerrold E. Hogle
Autonarration and genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney / Tilottama Rajan
The science of herself / Mary Jacobus
The failures of romanticism / Jerome McGann