![]() | Reading Public Romanticism Subjects: Speech acts (Linguistics); Romanticism; Public opinion in literature.; Literary form; Literary form; Public opinion; Public opinion; English poetry; Authors and readers; Literature and society; English poetry; Reading Public Romanticism is a significant new example of the linking of esthetics and historical criticism. Here Paul Magnuson locates Romantic poetry within a public discourse that combines politics and esthetics, nationalism and domesticity, sexuality and morality, law and legitimacy. Building on his well-regarded previous work, Magnuson practices a methodology of close historical reading by identifying precise versions of poems, reading their rhetoric of allusion and quotation in the contexts of their original publication, and describing their public genres, such as the letter. He studies the author's public signature or motto, the forms and significance of address used in poems, and the resonances of poetic language and tropes in the public debates. |
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