 | Romanticism, History, Historicism: Essays on an Orthodoxy Subjects: Genre; Modern Critical Approaches; History and Politics; Culture; Language & Literature; Poetry; New Historicism; The Essay; Gender and Sexuality; Revolution; New Criticism; Comparative Romanticisms; Music; Literature; Gender Criticism; Women Writers; Napoleonic Wars and Post-Napoleonic Period; French Revolution; Literary/ Critical Theory; Literary History; Literature by Period; The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism's revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment of the field and in the expansion of the Romantic canon. In this major new collection of eleven essays,nbsp;critics reflect on New Historicism's inheritance, its achievements and its limitations. Integrating a self-reflexive engagement with New Historicism's "history" and detailed attention to a range of Romantic lives and literary texts, the collection offers a close-up view of Romanticism's hybrid present, and a dynamic vision of its future. Damian Walford Davies is Senior Lecturer in Romantic and Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Co-Director of the Centre for Romantic Studies, in the Department of English at Aberystwyth University, Wales. |
