
Reading, Writing, and Romanticism
The Anxiety of Reception
Lucy Newlyn(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 5. October 2000
Book
Hardback
420 pages
978-0-19-818710-3 (ISBN)
Description
Reading, Writing, and Romanticism bridges a perceived gulf between materialist and idealist approaches to the reader. Informed by an historical awareness of Romantic hermeneutics and its later developments (as well as by an understanding of the circumstances conditioning the production and consumption of literature in this period), the book explores how readers are imagined, addressed, figured and theorised in Romantic poetry and criticism (1790-1830). Models of canon-formation, intertextuality and reader-response are examined alongside the existence of reading-coteries, the social practices of reading, and reforms in copyright. Consideration is given to the philosophical and ideological influences which bear upon the status of reading at this time, as well as to the educational theories and practices which underpin reading-habits. Non-canonical writers are included, and special attention is given to the emergence of women's poetry - its repercussions for the poetics of reception.
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Fascinating ... enthralling 'case studies' ... The second part of the book is equally rich in its range of material and suggestiveness * The Review of English Studies, New Series *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
721 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-818710-3 (9780198187103)
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Person
Lucy Newlyn is an Official Fellow and Tutor in English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. She is a C.U.F. Lecturer in the English Faculty of Oxford University.
Author
Official Fellow and Tutor in English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford; C.U.F. Lecturer in the English Faculty of Oxford UniversityOfficial Fellow and Tutor in English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford; C.U.F. Lecturer in the English Faculty of Oxford University, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
Content
PART I. THE ANXIETY OF RECEPTION; PART II: CROSSINGS ON THE CREATIVE-CRITICAL DIVIDE