Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter
Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter

Author: S. Oliver

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-04

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0230555004

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Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott's and Byron's poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people living on and around them. The author discusses Scott's edited collection of Border Ballads, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and his narrative poetry, and Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage , cantos 1 and 2, his Eastern Tales, and his late, utopian South-Sea poem The Island. This fascinating study provides a detailed exegesis of the importance of borders to these leading poets and the public, during the early years of the Nineteenth-Century, with an emphasis on reciprocal literary influences, and on attitudes towards cultural instability.

Stirring Age
Stirring Age

Author: Robert Duncan McColl

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1443879320

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Comparisons of Scott and Byron, so natural to 19th century readers, are scarce nowadays. Using a variety of critical and philosophical vocabularies illustratively, though not dependently, this study provides a timely and original study of two giants of 19th century European literature engaged in an experimental, mutually-informing act of genre-splicing, seeking to return history and romance to what both perceived was their native complementarity. The book shows how both writers utilise historical examples to suggest the continuing relevance of romance models, and how they confront threats to that relevance, whether they derive from the linear conception of history or the ‘romantic’ misapprehension of it. The argument proceeds by examining those threats, and then weighing the revival of romance via, rather than contra, the historical.

Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters
Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters

Author: Michael Wood

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-06-27

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1611462932

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Focusing on particular cases of Anglo-German exchange in the period known as the Sattelzeit (1750-1850), this volume of essays explores how drama and poetry played a central role in the development of British and German literary cultures. With increased numbers of people studying foreign languages, engaging in translation work, and traveling between Britain and Germany, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to unprecedented opportunities for intercultural encounters and transnational dialogues. While most research on Anglo-German exchange has focused on the novel, this volume seeks to reposition drama and poetry within discourses of national identity, intercultural transfer, and World Literature. The essays in the collection cohere in affirming the significance of poetry and drama as literary forms that shaped German and British cultures in the period. The essays also consider the nuanced movement of texts and ideas across genres and cultures, the formation and reception of poetic personae, and the place of illustration in cross-cultural, textual exchange.

Byron Among the English Poets
Byron Among the English Poets

Author: Clare Bucknell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-07-29

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 110890534X

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The most comprehensive coverage to date of Byron's place within the English poetic tradition, this landmark study boasts a cast of the most eminent individuals working in the field and will become invaluable to students and scholars of Byron, Romantic Literature and English literary history more generally.

“Romanticism” – and Byron
“Romanticism” – and Byron

Author: Peter Cochran

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2009-03-26

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 1443808121

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"Romanticism - and Byron" is a book in two parts. In the first part, Dr Cochran examines "Romanticism" and shows that it is a word meaning anything, and therefore nothing. It is an academic construct created by academics, and has no basis in the writings of the early nineteenth century. Its continued use, argues Dr Cochran, is a modern marketing phenomenon solely. In the second part, Dr Cochran examines the life and work of Byron in the non-"romantic" context of his contemporaries. He shows how Byron's antithetical nature created problems when he was forced into compromising situations with friends who were close to parts of his mind, yet irreconcilable with one another. This "mobility", argues Cochran, was often an embarrassment for Byron's social life, but of great benefit to his creativity. This part of the book features chapters on Shelley, Scott, Blake, Keats, Coleridge and Wordsworth, and is notable for the amount of original archive documentation with which Cochran illustrates his theme.

Palgrave Advances in Byron Studies
Palgrave Advances in Byron Studies

Author: J. Stabler

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-03-14

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0230206107

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This collection presents twelve outstanding new essays on Byron by leading critics from the USA, Canada and the UK including Steven Bruhm, Peter Cochran, Paul Curtis, Caroline Franklin, Peter Kitson, Ghislaine McDayter, Tim Morton, David Punter and Pamela Kao, Michael Simpson, Philip Shaw, Nanora Sweet and Susan Wolfson.

The Romantic Poets
The Romantic Poets

Author: Uttara Natarajan

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0470766352

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This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets. Guides readers through the wealth of critical material available on the Romantic poets and directs them to the most influential readings Presents key critical texts on each of the major Romantic poets – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – as well as on poets of more marginal canonical standing Cross-referencing between the different sections highlights continuities and counterpoints

The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 3 Volume Set
The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 3 Volume Set

Author: Frederick Burwick

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-01-30

Total Pages: 1767

ISBN-13: 1405188103

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The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature is an authoritative three-volume reference work that covers British artistic, literary, and intellectual movements between 1780 and 1830, within the context of European, transatlantic and colonial historical and cultural interaction. Comprises over 275 entries ranging from 1,000 to 6,500 words arranged in A-Z format across three fully cross-referenced volumes Written by an international cast of leading and emerging scholars Entries explore genre development in prose, poetry, and drama of the Romantic period, key authors and their works, and key themes Also available online as part of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature, providing 24/7 access and powerful searching, browsing and cross-referencing capabilities

British India and Victorian Literary Culture
British India and Victorian Literary Culture

Author: Maire ni Fhlathuin

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2015-09-18

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0748699694

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British India and Victorian Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the literature of British India.

Walter Scott and the Limits of Language
Walter Scott and the Limits of Language

Author: Alison Lumsden

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2010-12-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0748687297

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Scott's startlingly contemporary approach to theories of language and the creative impact of this on his work are explored in this new study.