England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic HistoricismUniversity of Chicago Press, 1999 M06 26 - 584 páginas 1819 was the annus mirabilis for many British Romantic writers, and the annus terribilis for demonstrators protesting the state of parliamentary representation. In 1819 Keats wrote what many consider his greatest poetry. This was the year of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, The Cenci, and Ode to the West Wind. Wordsworth published his most widely reviewed work, Peter Bell, and the craze for Walter Scott's historical novels reached its zenith. Many of these writings explicitly engaged with the politics of representation in 1819, especially the great movement for reform that was fueled by threats of mass emigration to America and came to a head that August with an unprovoked attack on unarmed men, women, and children in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, a massacre that journalists dubbed "Peterloo." But the year of Peterloo in British history is notable for more than just the volume, value, and topicality of its literature. Much of the writing from 1819, argues James Chandler, was acutely aware not only of its place in history, but also of its place as history - a realization of a literary "spirit of the age" that resonates strongly with the current "return to history" in literary studies. Chandler explores the ties between Romantic and contemporary historicism, such as the shared tendency to seize a single dated event as both important on its own and as a "case" testing general principles. To animate these issues, Chandler offers a series of cases of his own built around key texts from 1819. |
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Contenido
Section One Writing Historicism Then and | 49 |
Chapter | 94 |
Chapter Three | 155 |
Chapter Four | 203 |
Interchapter | 267 |
Chapter Five | 303 |
Chapter | 350 |
Keats and the History of Psyche | 389 |
Godwinian Theory in the Newest of New Worlds | 463 |
The Mystery of Generation | 466 |
Keats and the Humanity of the United States | 469 |
Poetry Utility Representation | 477 |
Section Two Sublime Casuistry | 481 |
Chapter Nine The Case of The Case of Shelley | 483 |
A Defense of Shelley | 490 |
Casuistry in The Cenci | 498 |
Smokeability | 395 |
Mary Tighe and the Tenses of History | 402 |
Rehabilitating Psyche | 409 |
The Politics of SoulMaking | 417 |
The Week When Keats Wrote To Autumn | 425 |
Keatss Literary Imperialism | 432 |
Western Settlements English Writers and the Case of U S Culture | 441 |
Washington Irving and the English Writers on America | 449 |
The English Columbus | 454 |
Anxieties of Exodus | 459 |
Requisites of Historical Judgment | 507 |
A Second Look at Peter Bell the Third | 515 |
The West Wind and the Poets Work | 525 |
Lyricism and Historicism | 529 |
A Revolution in the Turns of Season | 532 |
The Elementary Case | 541 |
The Absent Cause | 545 |
Fallen Leaves | 549 |
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