Romanitcism
Comparative Discourses
Published on 28. June 2006
Book
Hardback
190 pages
978-0-7546-5374-5 (ISBN)
Description
Exploring how discourse is figured in the texts of key European Romantic authors such as Wackenroder, Coleridge, Byron, and Hugo, this volume offers nuanced readings of the under-explored syntactic, semantic, and ideological structures of Romantic works. Rather than proposing a new theoretical position on the issue of what constitutes Romantic discourse studies, the editors have commissioned essays that seek to capture aspects of this discursive field, building on previous scholarship to offer fresh ways of seeing how Romantic discourse matrices work. The volume is organized into three sections: Language and Romantic Discourse Systems; Women Writers and Romantic Constructions of Power; and Varieties of Revisionist Discourse in Romanticism. Each section features individual essays providing critical re-readings of nine Romantic texts, and four Romantic topoi. Whether writing on Charlotte Smith's "The Old Manor House" or Anne Bronte's "Agnes Grey", on rescue operas or criminal drama, the contributors, who include Marjean Purinton, Kari Lokke, Rodney Farnsworth, and Jeffrey Cass, expand our understanding of Romantic modes of argumentation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-5374-5 (9780754653745)
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Persons
Larry H. Peer is Karl G. Maeser Professor of Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University, Utah, USA. Diane Long Hoeveler is Professor of English and Co-ordinator of Women's Studies at Marquette University, Wisconscin, USA.
Content
Prologomenon to the study of Romanticism's comparative Discourses, Larry H. Peer and Diane Long Hoeveler. Part 1 Language and Romantic Discourse Systems: Gothic opera as romantic discourse in Britain and France: a cross-cultural dialogue, Diane Long Hoeveler and Sarah Davies Cordova; Pursuing the Plerotic sublime: romantic poetry and the failure of language, Richard A. Nanian; Half asleep on thresholds: fragile boundaries in Coleridge's 'fear in solitude', Onita Vaz; Romantic drama and the discourse of criminality, Marjean D. Purinton. Part 2 Women Writers and Romantic Constructions of Power: Towards constructing a poetics of space for the sentimental novel: a Topo-analysis of Charlotte Smith's The Old Manor House, Nancy Metzger; The second soul-less sex? Mary Wollstonecraft and the 'Mahometon', Carolyn A. Weber; Ithuriel's spear and detecting counterfeit: Edgewroth's Miltonic allusions in Belinda, Jeffrey Cass; Parting Songs: Hemans, Landon, and Barret Browning rewrite Friederike Brun, Kari Lokke; The discourse of religious Bildung in Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey, Larry H. Peer. Part 3 Varieties of Revisionist Discourse in Romanticism: Readerly agency and the discourse of history in The Antiquary, Bonnie J. Gunzenhauser; Reading beyond Body, Cane and Crozier: Talleyrand as romantic discourse, Rodney Farnsworth; Byron and Manfred: epistolary journal into dramatic poem, D.L. Macdonald; The romantic artist on the couch: a Freudian approach to Wackenroder's musician Berlinger, Sonja E. Klocke. Index.