This volume of the celebrated Cambridge History of Literary Criticism series, first published in 2000, addresses literary criticism of the Romantic period, chiefly in Europe. Its seventeen chapters are by internationally-respected academics and explore a range of key topics and themes. The book is designed to help readers locate essential information and to develop approaches and viewpoints for a deeper understanding of issues discussed by Romantic critics or those that were fundamental to their works. Primary and secondary bibliographies provide a guide for further research. The coverage of the book, focusing on themes and genres but drawing in discussion of the key authors, makes it the standard reference work on the period c.1780–c.1830. These remain in many ways the formative years for modern Anglo-American as well as European literary history.
Author(s): Marshall Brown (editor)
Series: (The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Series Number 5)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 512
Title Page
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
1 Classical standards in the period
2 Innovation and modernity
3 The French Revolution
4 Transcendental philosophy and Romantic criticism
5 Nature
6 Scientific models
7 Religion and literature
8 Language theory and the art of understanding
9 The transformation of rhetoric
10 Romantic irony
11 Theories of genre
12 Theory of the novel
13 The impact of Shakespeare
14 The vocation of criticism and the crisis of the republic of letters
15 Women, gender and literary criticism
16 Literary history and historicism
17 Literature and the other arts
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