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The two romanticisms, and other essays : mystery and interpretation in romantic literature /

This book is a collection of critical essays on Romanticism and select Romantic texts, designed to help teachers and students to make sense of the period as a whole and of the poems and novels that appear most frequently on school and university curricula.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Christie, William, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: The University Of Sydney, N.S.W. : Sydney University Press, 2016.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Coleridge, Austen, and the two romanticisms
  • Wordsworth and the language of nature
  • Crossing over: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the conversation poems
  • 'The burden of the mystery': William Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey'
  • The search for meaning in The rime of the ancient mariner
  • Interpreting the politics of Pride and prejudice
  • 'Such is modern fame': the Byronic hero from Childe Harold to Don Juan
  • Amelioration and madness in Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Julian and Maddalo'
  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: a critical and cultural heritage
  • Questing and questioning in the 'Ode on a Grecian urn'
  • Epilogue: the romantic imagination.