Rethinking British romantic history, 1770-1845 / edited by Porscha Fermanis and John Regan
- Published
- Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Fermanis, Porscha, 1975- and Regan, John, 1979-
- Language Note
- Text in English.
- Contents
- The history girls : Charlotte Smith's History of England and the politics of women's educational history / Greg Kucich -- 'The fanciful traditions of early nations' : history, myth, and orientalist poetry in India prior to James Mill / Daniel Sanjiv Roberts -- No 'nonsense upon stilts' : James Mill's History of British India and the poetics of Benthamite historiography / John Regan -- A 'poor crochety picture of several things' : antiquarianism, subjectivity, and the novel in Thomas Carlyle's Letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell / Porscha Fermanis -- 'To trace thy country's glories to their source' : dangerous history in Thomas Pennant's Tour in Wales / Mary-Ann Constantine -- Historicism, temporalization, and romantic prophecy in Percy Shelley's Hellas / Christopher Bundock -- Magazines, Don Juan, and the Scotch novels : deep and shallow time in the Regency / Richard Cronin -- 'Diamonds by which the eye is charmed' : facets of romantic historiography in the works of Richard Parkes Bonington / Rosemary Mitchell -- The same rehearsal of the past : Byron and the aesthetics of history and culture / Michael O'Neill -- Byron, Clare, and poetic historiography / Paul Hamilton -- Historical fiction and the fractured Atlantic / Fiona Robertson -- A bookish history of Irish Romanticism / Claire Connolly.
- Summary
- Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845 rethinks the ways in which we understand the historical writing and the historical consciousness of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain by arguing that British historicism developed largely in quasi and para-historical genres such as memoir, biography, verse, fiction, and painting, rather than in works of 'real' history.--Provided by publisher.
- Subject(s)
- 1700-1899
- British literature—18th century—History and criticism
- British literature—19th century—History and criticism
- Historiography—Great Britain
- British literature
- Historiography
- Romanticism
- Literatur
- Englisch
- Geschichtsschreibung
- Romantik
- Romantiken
- Historiografi
- Romanticism—Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Great Britain
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780199687084 (hbk.)
0199687080 (hbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-324) and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2016
- Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment
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