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Romantic Feuds - Transcending the 'Age of Personality' (Paperback)
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Romantic Feuds - Transcending the 'Age of Personality' (Paperback)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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Romantic writers such as Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
aspired to rise above the so-called 'age of personality,' a new
culture of politicized print gossip and personal attacks.
Nevertheless, Southey, Coleridge, and other Romantic-era figures
such as Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Sydney Owenson, and the
explorer John Ross became enmeshed in lively feuds with the major
periodicals of the day, the Edinburgh Review and the Quarterly
Review. Kim Wheatley focuses on feuds from the second and third
decades of the nineteenth century, suggesting that by this time the
vituperative rhetoric of the Edinburgh and the Quarterly had
developed into what Coleridge called 'a habit of malignity.'
Attending to the formal strategies of the reviewers' surprisingly
creative prose, she traces how her chosen feuds take on lives of
their own, branching off into other print media, including the
weekly press and monthly magazines. Ultimately, Wheatley shows,
these hostile exchanges incorporated literary genres and Romantic
themes such as the idealized poetic self, the power of the
supernatural, and the quest for the sublime. By turning episodes of
print warfare into stories of transfiguration, the feuds thus
unexpectedly contributed to the emergence of Romanticism.
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