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Placing Charlotte Smith (Hardcover)
Elizabeth A. Dolan, Jacqueline M. Labbe; Contributions by Melissa Bailes, Stephen Behrendt, Anne Chandler, …
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R2,993
Discovery Miles 29 930
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A lively and far-ranging interest in place(s), space(s), and
situation characterizes the writing of the British Romantic-era
author Charlotte Smith (1749-1806). Smith repeatedly questions what
it means to be British in her literature. In an era of intense
nationalism, Smith explores her world in cosmopolitan terms.
Placing Charlotte Smith offers new insights into how Smith utilized
the idea of place in multiple ways, such as a theme, an idea, a
principle, or a metaphor. Several chapters in the collection
examine of Smith's own frequent change of location and the effect
on these moves had on her conceptions of home and well-being. Other
chapters analyze Smith's accounts of radicalism and patriotism in
terms of family and locate Smith's literature within comedic,
aesthetic, and scientific traditions. This volume of original
essays advances contemporary understanding of two overarching
themes in Smith studies: her place as a writer central to her
period, and her contribution to the creation of "place" as a thing
of social and literary importance.
Within key texts of Romanticic-era aesthetics, William Wordsworth,
S. T. Coleridge, and other writers and theorists pointed to the
poet, naturalist, and physician Erasmus Darwin as exemplifying a
lack of originality and sensibility in the period's scientific
literature--the very qualities that such literature had actually
sought to achieve. The success of this strawman tactic in
establishing Romantic-era principles resulted in the historical
devaluation of numerous other, especially female, imaginative
authors, creating misunderstandings about the aesthetic intentions
of the period's scientific literature that continue to hinder and
mislead scholars even today. Regenerating Romanticism demonstrates
that such strategies enabled some literary critics and arbiters of
Romantic-era aesthetics to portray literature and science as locked
in competition with one another while also establishing standards
for the literary canon that mirrored developing ideas of scientific
or biological sexism and racism. With this groundbreaking study,
Melissa Bailes renovates understandings of sensibility and its
importance to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century
movement of scientific literature within genres such as poetry,
novels, travel writing, children's literature that obviously and
technically engage with the natural sciences.
Within key texts of Romanticic-era aesthetics, William Wordsworth,
S. T. Coleridge, and other writers and theorists pointed to the
poet, naturalist, and physician Erasmus Darwin as exemplifying a
lack of originality and sensibility in the period's scientific
literature--the very qualities that such literature had actually
sought to achieve. The success of this strawman tactic in
establishing Romantic-era principles resulted in the historical
devaluation of numerous other, especially female, imaginative
authors, creating misunderstandings about the aesthetic intentions
of the period's scientific literature that continue to hinder and
mislead scholars even today. Regenerating Romanticism demonstrates
that such strategies enabled some literary critics and arbiters of
Romantic-era aesthetics to portray literature and science as locked
in competition with one another while also establishing standards
for the literary canon that mirrored developing ideas of scientific
or biological sexism and racism. With this groundbreaking study,
Melissa Bailes renovates understandings of sensibility and its
importance to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century
movement of scientific literature within genres such as poetry,
novels, travel writing, children's literature that obviously and
technically engage with the natural sciences.
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