Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet : Form, Place and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century.
This book explores Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets and clarifies its 'place' - understood in multiple ways - in literary history. It argues that Smith's work engages more deeply with tradition than has hitherto been realised and revises our understanding not only of Smith'...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850 Series
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The Eighteenth-Century Sonnet
- 2. Tradition
- Nightingales
- Streams
- River Arun
- Other Poetic Landscapes
- 3. Innovation
- The Sea
- Breaking 'the silent Sabbath of the grave': Sonnet XLIV
- Giddy Brinks and Lucid Lines
- 4. Wider Prospect
- Wider Prospect of the Sonnet Revival
- Smith in Posterity: A Fragile Inheritance
- 5. Botany to Beachy Head
- Goddess of Botany
- Economies of Vegetation
- Gossamer
- Beachy Head
- Bibliography
- Index.