The q(re)turn to historyq in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicismas revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment of the field and in the expansion of the Romantic canon. In this major new collection of eleven essays, critics reflect on New Historicismas inheritance, its achievements and its limitations. Integrating a self-reflexive engagement with New Historicismas qhistoryq and detailed attention to a range of Romantic lives and literary texts, the collection offers a close-up view of Romanticismas hybrid present, and a dynamic vision of its future.As he later tells Abel, his tutorial in (New) Historicism has made him aUnfit for mortal converse. ... Adah reveals little Enoch sleeping aupon yon bed / Of leaves, beneath the cypressa; Cain replies: Cypress, a#39;tis A gloomy tree, which looks as if it anbsp;...
Title | : | Romanticism, History, Historicism |
Author | : | Damian Walford Davies |
Publisher | : | Routledge - 2009-01-21 |
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