This book investigates the representation of the rural village and country town in a range of Romantic texts.
Author: S. White
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781137281791
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 223
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The proper organisation of rural communities was central to political and social debates at the turn of the eighteenth century, and featured strongly in the 1790s political polemic that influenced so many Romantic poets and novelists. This book investigates the representation of the rural village and country town in a range of Romantic texts.
interested in the social dynamic of rural communities, but his early ballads and tales treat the effect of social change upon human relationships in a restrained manner that he perhaps came to feel did not make a sufficiently forceful ...
Author: Simon J. White
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351902892
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 184
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Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, and remained popular until the beginning of the twentieth century. Yet until now, no modern critic has undertaken a full-length study of his poetry and its contexts. Simon J. White considers the relationship between Bloomfield's poetry and that of other Romantic poets. For example, her argues that Wordsworth's poetics of rural life was in some respects a response to Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy. White considers Bloomfield's emphasis on the importance of local tradition and community in the lives of labouring people. In challenging the idea that the formal and rhetorical innovation of Wordsworth and Coleridge was principally responsible for the emergence of a new kind of poetry at the turn of the eighteenth century, he also shows that it is impossible to understand how the lyric and the literary ballad evolved during the Romantic period without considering Bloomfield's poetry. White's authoritative study demonstrates that, on the contrary, Bloomfield's poetry was pivotal in the development of Romanticism.
Their fascination with primitive rural communities—from the Greek gens (the clan structure of prehistoric antiquity) to the old Germanic Mark (rural community) and the Russian obschtchina (traditional rural commune)—stems from their ...
Author: Michael Löwy
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822381297
Category: History
Page: 327
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Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the unity that underlies the extraordinary diversity of romanticism from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. After critiquing previous conceptions of romanticism and discussing its first European manifestations, Löwy and Sayre propose a typology of the sociopolitical positions held by romantic writers-from “restitutionist” to various revolutionary/utopian forms. In subsequent chapters, they give extended treatment to writers as diverse as Coleridge and Ruskin, Charles Peguy, Ernst Bloch and Christa Wolf. Among other topics, they discuss the complex relationship between Marxism and romanticism before closing with a reflection on more contemporary manifestations of romanticism (for example, surrealism, the events of May 1968, and the ecological movement) as well as its future. Students and scholars of literature, humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies will be interested in this elegant and thoroughly original book.
White, Simon J. Romanticism and the Rural Community. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Necessitarianism The fifth chapter of William Godwin's Enquiry concerning Political Justice (1793) discusses “Free Will and Necessity,” and the ...
Author: Frederick Burwick
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470659830
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 403
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Compiles 70 of the key terms most frequently used or discussed by authors of the Romantic period – and most often deliberated by critics and literary historians of the era. Offers an indispensable resource for understanding the ideas and differing interpretations that shaped the Romantic period Includes keywords spanning Abolition and Allegory, through Madness and Monsters, to Vision and Vampires Features in-depth descriptions of each entry’s direct meaning and connotations in relation to its usage and thought in literary culture Provides deep insights into the political, social, and cultural climate of one of the most expressive periods of Western literary history Draws on the author’s extensive experience of teaching, lecturing, and writing on Romantic literature
'The Romantic Sonnet', in The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet, ed. by A. D. Cousins and Peter Howarth (Cambridge ... Simon J., 'Agrarian Reform and Community in Burns, Bloomfield and Clare', in Romanticism and the Rural Community ...
Author: Simon Kövesi
Publisher: John Clare Society
ISBN: 9780956411389
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 49
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The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare. 2017.
When Coleridge met Southey in 1794, for example, they intended to emigrate together to America, where, on the banks of the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania, they would found a 'Pantisocracy': an idealistic rural community made ...
Author: Carmen Casaliggi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317609353
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 282
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The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid advances in technology and a primitivist return to nature. As a broad global movement, Romanticism strongly impacted on the literature and arts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in ways that are still being debated and negotiated today. Examining the poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, and the arts of the period, this book considers: Important propositions and landmark ideas in the Romantic period; Key debates and critical approaches to Romantic studies; New and revisionary approaches to Romantic literature and art; The ways in which Romantic writing interacts with broader trends in history, politics, and aesthetics; European and Global Romanticism; The legacies of Romanticism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Containing useful, reader-friendly features such as explanatory case studies, chapter summaries, and suggestions for further reading, this clear and engaging book is an invaluable resource for anyone who intends to study and research the complexity and diversity of the Romantic period, as well as the historical conditions which produced it.
Such poets wrote from an experience of living within the rural community from the point of view of the local rural labourer. Clare, in particular, inveighs against the inroads made into the life of rural communities by the new forces of ...
Author: Sue Chaplin
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781441107244
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 272
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A one-stop resource containing introductory material through to practical case studies in reading primary and secondary texts to introducing criticism and new directions in research.
In Rural Rides William Cobbett had reflected in similar terms, albeit from a different political perspective, on the rural ... Cobbett's monopolizers devouring the rural community are thriving today among Eating Romantic England 101.
Author: T. Morton
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781403981394
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 287
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Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite brings two major critical impulses within the field of Romanticism to bear upon an important and growing field of research: appetite and its related discourses of taste and consumption. As consumption, in all its metaphorical variety, comes to displace the body as a theoritical site for challenging the distinction between inside and outside, food itself has attracted attention as a device to interrogate the rhetoric and politics of Romanticism. In brief, the volume initiates a dialogue between the cultural politics of food and eating, and the philosophical implications of ingestion, digestion and excretion.
Author: Celestina Savonius-WrothPublish On: 2022-01-17
34 Against these abuses of Romanticism, however, should be weighed the vision to which the. 32 Christian Remembrancer, 24, no. 78 (Oct, 1852), 385 (emphasis added). 33 Robert Lee, Rural Society and the Anglican Clergy, ...
Author: Celestina Savonius-Wroth
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9783030828554
Category: History
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This book is a major new contribution to the study of cultural identities in Britain and Ireland from the Reformation to Romanticism. It provides a fresh perspective on the rise of interest in British vernacular (or “folk”) cultures, which has often been elided with the emergence of British Romanticism and its Continental precursors. Here the Romantics’ discovery of and admiration for vernacular traditions is placed in a longer historical timeline reaching back to the controversies sparked by the Protestant Reformation. The book charts the emergence of a nuanced discourse about vernacular cultures, developing in response to the Reformers’ devastating attack on customary practices and beliefs relating to the natural world, seasonal festivities, and rites of passage. It became a discourse grounded in humanist Biblical and antiquarian scholarship; informed by the theological and pastoral problems of the long period of religious instability after the Reformation; and, over the course of the eighteenth century, colored by new ideas about culture drawn from Enlightenment historicism and empiricism. This study shows that Romantic literary primitivism and Romantic social thought, both radical and conservative, grew out of this rich context. It will be welcomed by historians of early modern and eighteenth-century Britain and those interested in the study of religious and vernacular cultures.
The subjugation of the rural community—or, as improvers might think, its liberation into free wage labour—was a project conceived on the model of imperial conquest. In 1803 Sir John Sinclair (1754–1835), President of the Board of ...