1st Edition
Romanticism, History, Historicism Essays on an Orthodoxy
The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism’s revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment of the field and in the expansion of the Romantic canon. In this major new collection of eleven essays, critics reflect on New Historicism’s inheritance, its achievements and its limitations. Integrating a self-reflexive engagement with New Historicism’s "history" and detailed attention to a range of Romantic lives and literary texts, the collection offers a close-up view of Romanticism’s hybrid present, and a dynamic vision of its future.
Preface
Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Introduction: The Emperor and the Rock Limpet – Reflections on an Orthodoxy
Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf Turley
1. The Incommensurable Value of Historicism
Tim Milnes (Edinburgh University)
2. The Hair of Milton: Historicism and Literary History
Erik Gray (Columbia University)
3. Telling Lives to Children: Young versus New Historicism in Little Arthur’s History of England
Michael Simpson (Goldsmiths, University of London)
4. ‘In Embalmèd Darkness’: Keats, the Picturesque, and the Limits of New Historicism
Kelly Grovier (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
5. Whose History? My Place or Yours? Republican Assumptions and Romantic Traditions
Kenneth Johnston (University of Indiana)
6. Romanticism, Historicism, Feminism
Anne Mellor (University of California, Los Angeles) and Susan Wolfson (Princeton University)
7. Romanticism and the Feminist Uses of History
Gary Kelly (University of Alberta, Canada)
8. New Historicism, New Austen, New Romanticism
Robert Miles (University of Victoria, Canada)
9. Overlooking History: The Case of John Thelwall
Judith Thompson (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia)
10. Leigh Hunt and Romantic Biography
Nicholas Roe (University of St Andrews)
11. Cain and the ‘History’ of Cradle Songs
Damian Walford Davies (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Preface
Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Introduction: The Emperor and the Rock Limpet – Reflections on an Orthodoxy
Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf Turley
1. The Incommensurable Value of Historicism
Tim Milnes (Edinburgh University)
2. The Hair of Milton: Historicism and Literary History
Erik Gray (Columbia University)
3. Telling Lives to Children: Young versus New Historicism in Little Arthur’s History of England
Michael Simpson (Goldsmiths, University of London)
4. ‘In Embalmèd Darkness’: Keats, the Picturesque, and the Limits of New Historicism
Kelly Grovier (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
5. Whose History? My Place or Yours? Republican Assumptions and Romantic Traditions
Kenneth Johnston (University of Indiana)
6. Romanticism, Historicism, Feminism
Anne Mellor (University of California, Los Angeles) and Susan Wolfson (Princeton University)
7. Romanticism and the Feminist Uses of History
Gary Kelly (University of Alberta, Canada)
8. New Historicism, New Austen, New Romanticism
Robert Miles (University of Victoria, Canada)
9. Overlooking History: The Case of John Thelwall
Judith Thompson (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia)
10. Leigh Hunt and Romantic Biography
Nicholas Roe (University of St Andrews)
11. Cain and the ‘History’ of Cradle Songs
Damian Walford Davies (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Preface
Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Introduction: The Emperor and the Rock Limpet – Reflections on an Orthodoxy
Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf Turley
1. The Incommensurable Value of Historicism
Tim Milnes (Edinburgh University)
2. The Hair of Milton: Historicism and Literary History
Erik Gray (Columbia University)
3. Telling Lives to Children: Young versus New Historicism in Little Arthur’s History of England
Michael Simpson (Goldsmiths, University of London)
4. ‘In Embalmèd Darkness’: Keats, the Picturesque, and the Limits of New Historicism
Kelly Grovier (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
5. Whose History? My Place or Yours? Republican Assumptions and Romantic Traditions
Kenneth Johnston (University of Indiana)
6. Romanticism, Historicism, Feminism
Anne Mellor (University of California, Los Angeles) and Susan Wolfson (Princeton University)
7. Romanticism and the Feminist Uses of History
Gary Kelly (University of Alberta, Canada)
8. New Historicism, New Austen, New Romanticism
Robert Miles (University of Victoria, Canada)
9. Overlooking History: The Case of John Thelwall
Judith Thompson (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia)
10. Leigh Hunt and Romantic Biography
Nicholas Roe (University of St Andrews)
11. Cain and the ‘History’ of Cradle Songs
Damian Walford Davies (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Biography
Damian Walford Davies is Senior Lecturer in Romantic and Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Co-Director of the Centre for Romantic Studies, in the Department of English at Aberystwyth University, Wales.
