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Romanticism and the Uses of Genre (Paperback)
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Romanticism and the Uses of Genre (Paperback)
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This wide-ranging and original book reappraises the role of genre,
and genre theory, in British Romanticism. Analyzing numerous
examples from 1760 to 1830, David Duff examines the generic
innovations and experiments which propel the Romantic 'revolution
in literature', but also the fascination with archaic forms such as
the ballad, sonnet, and romance, whose revival and transformation
make Romanticism a 'retro' movement as well as a revolutionary one.
The tension between the drives to 'make it old' and to 'make it
new' generates one of the most dynamic phases in the history of
literature, whose complications are played out in the critical
writing of the period as well as its creative literature.
Incorporating extensive research on classification systems and
reception history as well as on literary forms themselves,
Romanticism and the Uses of Genre demonstrates how new ideas about
the role and status of genre influenced not only authors but also
publishers, editors, reviewers, and readers. The focus is on
poetry, but a wider spectrum of genres is considered, a central
theme being the relationship - hierarchical, competitive,
combinatory - between genres. Among the topics addressed are
generic primitivism and forgery; Enlightenment theory and the
'cognitive turn'; the impact of German transcendental aesthetics;
organic and anti-organic form; the role of genre in the French
Revolution debate; the poetics of the fragment; and the theory and
practice of genre-mixing. Unprecedented in its scope and detail,
this important book establishes a new way of reading Romantic
literature which brings into focus for the first time its tangled
relationship with genre.
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