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Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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In tracing those deliberate and accidental Romantic echoes that
reverberate through the Victorian age into the beginning of the
twentieth century, this collection acknowledges that the Victorians
decided for themselves how to define what is 'Romantic'. The essays
explore the extent to which Victorianism can be distinguished from
its Romantic precursors, or whether it is possible to conceive of
Romanticism without the influence of these Victorian definitions.
Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era reassesses Romantic
literature's immediate cultural and literary legacy in the late
nineteenth century, showing how the Victorian writings of Matthew
Arnold, Wilkie Collins, the BrontA"s, the Brownings, Elizabeth
Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, and
the Rossettis were instrumental in shaping Romanticism as a
cultural phenomenon. Many of these Victorian writers found in the
biographical, literary, and historical models of Chatterton,
Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Wordsworth touchstones for
reappraising their own creative potential and artistic identity.
Whether the Victorians affirmed or revolted against the Romanticism
of their early years, their attitudes towards Romantic values
enriched and intensified the personal, creative, and social
dilemmas described in their art. Taken together, the essays in this
collection reflect on current critical dialogues about literary
periodisation and contribute to our understanding of how these
contemporary debates stem from Romanticism's inception in the
Victorian age.
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