1st Edition
Enlightening Romanticism, Romancing the Enlightenment British Novels from 1750 to 1832
Edited By Miriam L. Wallace
Copyright 2009
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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As eighteenth-century scholarship expands its range, and disciplinary boundaries such as Enlightenment and Romanticism are challenged, novels published during the rich period from 1750 to 1832 have become a contested site of critical overlap. In this volume, scholars who typically write under the rubric of either the long eighteenth century or Romanticism examine novels often claimed by both... Read more
Introduction Enlightened Romanticism or Romantic Enlightenment?, Miriam L. Wallace; Chapter 1 Novel Romanticism in 1751: Eliza Haywood’s Betsy Thoughtless, Margaret Case Croskery; Chapter 2 The Melancholy Briton: Enlightenment Sources of the Gothic, Peter Walmsley; Chapter 3 “Disagreeable Misconstructions”: Epistolary Trouble in Charlotte Smith’s Desmond, Scott C. Campbell; Chapter 4 Reason and Romance: Rethinking Romantic-Era Fiction Through Jane West’s, Daniel Schierenbeck; Chapter 5 The Politics of Masculinity in the 1790s Radical Novel: Hugh Trevor, Caleb Williams and the Romance of Sentimental Friendship, Shawn Lisa Maurer; Chapter 6 The “Double Sense” of Honor: Revising Gendered Social Codes in Amelia Opie’s Adeline Mowbray, Shelley King; Chapter 7 Reading the Metropole: Elizabeth Hamilton’s Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, Tara Ghoshal Wallace; Chapter 8 The Woman of Genius: In Praise of the Inchoate Future, Julie Shaffer; Chapter 9 Frances Trollope’s America: From Enlightenment Aesthetics to Victorian Class, Christopher Flynn; Chapter 10 Response Essay How We See: The 1790s, Patricia M. Spacks; Chapter 11 Response Essay Cultural Transitions, Literary Judgments and the Romantic-Era British Novel, Stephen C. Behrendt;
Biography
Miriam L. Wallace is associate professor of British and American literature at New College of Florida, USA.
'Challenging entrenched assumptions about literary history, the essays gathered here make vividly clear why "eighteenth-centuryists" and "Romanticists" need one another's expertise to do justice to the vibrant period we share. Most dramatically, this volume invites us to participate in a revolutionary reconsideration of the place of the novel in a Revolutionary and Romantic age.' Susan S. Lanser, Brandeis University, USA 'Miriam L. Wallace does an excellent job of describing and interpreting the varying, sometimes conflicting premises that drive the specialties of Romanticism and eighteenth-century studies.' European Legacy
