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Reading, Writing, and Romanticism

The Anxiety of Reception

Lucy Newlyn author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

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Winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize 2001 awarded by the British Academy

This work aims to bridge a perceived gulf between materialist and idealist approaches to the reader. Informed by an historical awareness of Romantic hermeneutics and its later developments, it examines how readers are imagined, addressed, figured and theorized in Romantic poetry and criticism.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.

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 *

  • Winner of Winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize 2001 awarded by the British Academy.

ISBN: 9780198187103

Dimensions: 224mm x 146mm x 27mm

Weight: 598g

420 pages