Romance and Revolution
Shelley and the Politics of a Genre
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism; 7;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 1 September 1994
- ISBN 9780521450188
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages300 pages
- Size 237x159x23 mm
- Weight 576 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
Relates the revival of literary romance to the French Revolution's imaginative impact on English Romanticism.
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The revival of romance as a literary form and the imaginative impact of the French Revolution are acknowledged influences on English Romanticism, but their relationship has rarely been addressed. In this innovative study of the transformations of a genre, David Duff examines the paradox whereby the unstable visionary world of romance came to provide an apt language for the representation of revolution, and how the literary form was itself politicised in the period. Drawing on an extensive range of textual and visual sources, he traces the ambivalent ideological overtones of the chivalric revival, the polemical appropriation of the language of romance in the 'pamphlet war' of the 1790s, and the emergence of a radical cult of chivalry among the Hunt-Shelley circle in 1815-17. Central to the book is a detailed analysis of Shelley's neglected revolutionary romances Queen Mab and Laon and Cythna, flawed but fascinating poems in which the politics of romance is most fully displayed.
"...will be savoured by those who have an interest in the literary figuration of diet and consumption in all periods as well as the Romantic." Notes and Queries
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. The French Revolution and the politics of romance; 2. Romance and revolution in Queen Mab; 3. Sir Guyon de Shelley and friends: new light on the chivalric revival; 4. The right road to paradise: Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.
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