Screen LibraryEnglish romantic writers and the west country
Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as 'Lakers' and 'Cockneys', the diverse regional forms of 'English Romanticism' are ripe for reassessment. Ranging west of a line between the Wye at Tintern and Jane Austen's Chawton, this book offe...
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Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as 'Lakers' and 'Cockneys', the diverse regional forms of 'English Romanticism' are ripe for reassessment. Ranging west of a line between the Wye at Tintern and Jane Austen's Chawton, this book offers a first reconfiguration of Romantic culture in terms of English regional identity. 'This diverse and absorbing book explores some of the ways in which many of the Romantic writers, both major and minor, found a local inspiration in the West Country. Nicholas Roe's well-judged collection relates for the first time a brilliant chapter in English literary history, and vividly evokes some of its most memorable personalities.' - Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford, UK. |
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Electronic book text. Originally published in: 2010. |
| Carrier Form: | 344 p. : 26 b&w, halftones, 21. |
| Audience: | Undergraduate. |
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9780230223745 9780230281455 : 0230281451 : |
| CLC: | I561.064 |
| Contents: | Foreword List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Preface-- R.Holmes Introduction-- N.Roe PART I: LANDSCAPES AND LEGENDS 'More wondrous far than Egypt's boasted pyramids': The South West's Megaliths in the Romantic Period-- J.Parker 'Al under the wyllowe tree': Chatterton and the Ecology of the West Country-- N.Groom PART II: THE BRISTOL SCHOOL: COTTLE, COLERIDGE, AND THEIR CIRCLES Joseph Cottle and West-Country Romanticism-- R.Cronin William Gilbert and his Bristol Circle 1788-98-- P.Cheshire S.T. Coleridge, Joseph Cottle, and Some Bristol Baptists, 1794-96-- T.Whelan Coleridge's Bristol and West Country Radicalism-- P.J.Kitson Radical Bible: Coleridge's 1790s West Country Politics-- A.J.Harding PART III: IMAGINING THE WEST COUNTRY Wordsworth's 1793 Journey to the West Country and Wales-- C.K.Walker Coleridge in Devon-- G.Davidson Southey's West Country-- L.Pratt Romantic Hydrography: Tide and Transit in 'Tintern Abbey'-- D.W.Davies The Road Not Taken: Robert Bloomfield's Wye Valley and the Poetic Imagination-- T.Fulford PART IV: IN PURSUIT OF SPRING 'The Outset of Life': Shelley, Hazlitt, the West Country, and the Revolutionary Imagination-- M.O'Neill 'Over the Dartmoor Black': John Keats and the West Country-- N.Roe Going Westward: William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas-- S.Yoshikawa Afterword-- T.Mayberry Index. |