Often identified with its lyric poetry, Romanticism has come to
be dismissed by historicists as an ineffectual idealism. By
focusing on Romantic narrative, noted humanist Tilottama Rajan
takes issue with this identification, as well as with the equation
of narrative itself with the governmental apparatus of the Novel.
Exploring the role of narrativity in the works of Romantic writers,
Rajan also reflects on larger disciplinary issues such as the role
of poetry versus prose in an emergent modernity and the place of
Romanticism itself in a Victorianized nineteenth century.
While engaging both genres, "Romantic Narrative" responds to the
current critical shift from poetry to prose by concentrating,
paradoxically, on a poetics of narrative in Romantic prose fiction.
Rajan argues that "poiesis," as a mode of thinking, is
Romanticism's legacy to an age of prose. She elucidates this thesis
through careful readings of Shelley's "Alastor" and his Gothic
novels, Godwin's "Caleb Williams" and "St. Leon," Hays' "Memoirs of
Emma Courtney," and Wollstonecraft's "The Wrongs of Woman."
Rajan, winner of the Keats-Shelley Association's Distinguished
Lifetime Award and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is one
of Romanticism's leading scholars. Effective, articulate, and
readable, "Romantic Narrative" will appeal to scholars in both
nineteenth-century studies and narrative theory.
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