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This book offers an exciting reassessment of Keats with particular
emphasis on gender identity and sexuality. Traditionally, Keats has
been more readily associated with the 'feminine' than any other
canonical male English poet. This feminization was always likely,
given his tragically early death and the mythologizing which took
place soon after. In contrast, John Whale explores Keats's writings
from the perspective of masculinity and gender by placing them in
the context of contemporary friendship groupings and coterie
relationships. Whale addresses all the major poems and gives due
prominence to the letters. In so doing, he offers a new
understanding of Keats's exploration of poetry, gender and desire,
and provides an extended analysis of Keats's quest for poetic fame
in the face of the often conflicting forces of love and sexuality.
Clear, concise and insightful, this is an essential guide to one of
the best-known Romantic poets.
This ambitious study, first published in 2000, offers a radical
reassessment of one of the most important concepts of the Romantic
period - the imagination. In contrast to traditional accounts, John
Whale locates the Romantic imagination within the period's lively
and often antagonistic polemics on aesthetics and politics. In
particular he focuses on the different versions of imagination
produced within British writing in response to the cultural crises
of the French Revolution and the ideology of utilitarianism.
Through detailed analysis of key texts by Burke, Paine,
Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Hazlitt, Cobbett and Coleridge,
Imagination under Pressure seeks to restore the role of imagination
as a more positive force within cultural critique. The book
concludes with a chapter on the afterlife of the Coleridgean
imagination in the work of John Stuart Mill and I. A. Richards. As
a whole it represents a timely and inventive contribution to the
ongoing redefinition of Romantic literary and political culture.
First published in 1992. Beyond Romanticism represents a
substantial challenge to traditional views of the Romantic period
and provides a sustained critique of 'Romantic ideology'. The
debates with which it engages had previously been under-represented
in the study of Romanticism, where the claims of history had never
had quite the same status as they have had in other periods, and
where confidence in poetic literary value remains high. Individual
essays examine the philosophical underpinnings of Romantic
discourse; they survey analogous and competing discourses of the
period such as mesmerism, Hellenism, orientalism and nationalism;
and analyse both the manifestations of Romanticism in particular
historical and textual moments, and the texts and modes of writing
which have been historically marginalized or silenced by 'the
Romantic'. This title will be of interest to students of
literature.
First published in 1992. Beyond Romanticism represents a
substantial challenge to traditional views of the Romantic period
and provides a sustained critique of 'Romantic ideology'. The
debates with which it engages had previously been under-represented
in the study of Romanticism, where the claims of history had never
had quite the same status as they have had in other periods, and
where confidence in poetic literary value remains high. Individual
essays examine the philosophical underpinnings of Romantic
discourse; they survey analogous and competing discourses of the
period such as mesmerism, Hellenism, orientalism and nationalism;
and analyse both the manifestations of Romanticism in particular
historical and textual moments, and the texts and modes of writing
which have been historically marginalized or silenced by 'the
Romantic'. This title will be of interest to students of
literature.
First published in 1790 Edmund Burke's Reflections on the
Revolution in France initiated a debate not only about the nature
of the unprecedented historical events taking place across the
channel, but about the very identity of the British state and its
people. It has subsequently been appropriated by a variety of
conservative and liberal thinkers and has played a major role in
our understanding of the relationship between rhetoric, aesthetics
and politics. In this volume, leading Burke scholars offer new and
challenging essays which allow us to reconsider the historical
context in which Reflections on the Revolution in France was
written. The essays consider its reception, its engagements in the
discourses of nationalism and toleration, its legacy to English and
Irish writers of the Romantic period and its impact within our
contemporary cultural and critical theory. The volume demonstrates
a range of interdisciplinary critical methods and cultural
perspectives from which to read Burke's most famous work. This
volume will be the ideal companion to Burke's Reflections for all
students of literature, history, politics and Irish studies. -- .
This ambitious study, first published in 2000, offers a radical
reassessment of one of the most important concepts of the Romantic
period - the imagination. In contrast to traditional accounts, John
Whale locates the Romantic imagination within the period's lively
and often antagonistic polemics on aesthetics and politics. In
particular he focuses on the different versions of imagination
produced within British writing in response to the cultural crises
of the French Revolution and the ideology of utilitarianism.
Through detailed analysis of key texts by Burke, Paine,
Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Hazlitt, Cobbett and Coleridge,
Imagination under Pressure seeks to restore the role of imagination
as a more positive force within cultural critique. The book
concludes with a chapter on the afterlife of the Coleridgean
imagination in the work of John Stuart Mill and I. A. Richards. As
a whole it represents a timely and inventive contribution to the
ongoing redefinition of Romantic literary and political culture.
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