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First Published in 1992, this encyclopedia is designed to survey
the social, cultural and intellectual climate of English
Romanticism from approximately the 1780s and the French Revolution
to the 1830s and the Reform Bill. Focussing on a ~the spirit of the
agea (TM), the book deals with the aesthetic, scientific,
socioeconomic a " indeed the human a " environment in which the
Romantics flourished. The books considers poets, playwrights and
novelists; critics, editors and booksellers; painters, patrons and
architects; as well as ideas, trends, fads, and conventions, the
familiar and the newly discovered. The book will be of use for
everyone from undergraduate English students, through to
thesis-driven graduate students to teaching faculty and
scholars.
First Published in 1992, this encyclopedia is designed to survey
the social, cultural and intellectual climate of English
Romanticism from approximately the 1780s and the French Revolution
to the 1830s and the Reform Bill. Focussing on 'the spirit of the
age', the book deals with the aesthetic, scientific, socioeconomic
- indeed the human - environment in which the Romantics flourished.
The books considers poets, playwrights and novelists; critics,
editors and booksellers; painters, patrons and architects; as well
as ideas, trends, fads, and conventions, the familiar and the newly
discovered. The book will be of use for everyone from undergraduate
English students, through to thesis-driven graduate students to
teaching faculty and scholars.
Written for readers at all levels, this book situates Jane Austen
in her time, and for all times. It provides a biography; locates
her work in the context of literary history and criticism; explores
her fiction; and features an encyclopedic, readable resource on the
people, places and things of relevance to Austen the person and
writer. Details on family members, beaux, friends, national
affairs, church and state politics, themes, tropes, and literary
devices ground the reader in Austen's world. Appendices offer
resources for further reading and consider the massive modern
industry that has grown up around Austen and her works.
Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and Their Sisters is an unprecedented
work that provides an in-depth analysis of the work of women
novelists from the Romantic age, a period that has long been
exclusively designated as the province of canonized male poets.
Although there are many volumes on the works of Austen and Shelley,
this collection is the first to consider these writers and others
in the wider context of English fiction by women during the 1780s
to 1830s. Collectively, the authors examine the works of nearly
fifteen women novelists of the Romantic period whose works
encompass the prevailing social and political realities of the
time. They demonstrate that women writers were not following a
specific formula to produce their creative works but were instead
responding to an insatiable market for their imaginative and
infinitely varied wares. A must-read for scholars of women's
studies as well as 19th century British literature, Jane Austen and
Mary Shelley and Their Sisters is sure to be an important resource
for years to come.
Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and Their Sisters is an unprecedented
work that provides an in-depth analysis of the work of women
novelists from the Romantic age, a period that has long been
exclusively designated as the province of canonized male poets.
Although there are many volumes on the works of Austen and Shelley,
this collection is the first to consider these writers and others
in the wider context of English fiction by women during the 1780s
to 1830s. Collectively, the authors examine the works of nearly
fifteen women novelists of the Romantic period whose works
encompass the prevailing social and political realities of the
time. They demonstrate that women writers were not following a
specific formula to produce their creative works but were instead
responding to an insatiable market for their imaginative and
infinitely varied wares. A must-read for scholars of women's
studies as well as 19th century British literature, Jane Austen and
Mary Shelley and Their Sisters is sure to be an important resource
for years to come.
Near its heart, English Romanticism-across many
writers-acknowledges and celebrates a community that is not just
secular but that derives meaning from a religious association and,
in fact, a particularly defined religion, that is, Anglican
Christianity. William Wordsworth and Jane Austen, premier English
Romantic poet and novelist, were baptized, confirmed, and buried
(and for Wordsworth, married) in conformity with the Church of
England. Of course, Wordsworth's commitment flagged in his
twenties, but with marriage and responsibility came respectability
and parishioner status. However, most twentieth-century critics
interpret these writers' works outside the Christian realities with
which their lives were much imbued, except for late Wordsworthian
poems from his purported decline into conservative politics and
religion and evident poetic senility. Jane Austen did not live long
enough to have a late decline, but critics have nonetheless
overlooked her faith. It is not necessarily the surface of her
writing, but Christianity is unquestionably the sea out of which
her characters arise, her plots bubble up, and her themes unfold.
It was her and their reality. Notwithstanding this negative or
blind critical precedent, Laura Dabundo highlights what most
readers are conditioned to disregard, the ways in which the church
saturates the writing of Wordsworth and Austen. The Church of
England's liturgy has traditionally been based on Scripture, which
these writers would have known. This book, then, links their faith
to their works.
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