Romanticism and Time : Literary Temporalities.
'Eternity is in love with the productions of time'. This original edited volume takes William Blake's aphorism as a basis to explore how British Romantic literature creates its own sense of time. It considers Romantic poetry as embedded in and reflecting on the march of time, regardin...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK :
Open Book Publishers,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Times of Romanticism
- Section I
- Restoration, Revival, and Revolution across Romantic Europe
- 1. Future Restoration
- 2. Anthropocene Temporalities and British Romantic Poetry
- 3. Beethoven: Revolutionary Transformations
- Section II
- Romantic Conceptions of Time
- 4. The Temporality of the Soul: Immanent Conceptions of Time in Wordsworth and Byron
- 5. 'Footing slow across a silent plain': Time and Walking in Keatsian Poetics
- Section III
- The Poetics of Time
- 6. Contracting Time: John Clare's The Shepherd's Calendar
- 7. Book-Time in Charles Lamb and Washington Irving
- 8. 'A disciple of Albertus Magnus [...] in the eighteenth century': Anachronism and Anachrony in Frankenstein
- Section IV
- Persistence and Afterlives
- 9. Heaps of Time in Beckett and Shelley
- 10. 'Thy Wreck a Glory': Venice, Subjectivity, and Temporality in Byron and Shelley and the Post-Romantic Imagination
- Section V
- Romanticism and Periodisation
- Romanticism and Periodisation: A Roundtable
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- Index.