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British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest

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British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest explores the importance to Romantic literature of a concept of human interest. It examines a range of literary experiments to engage readers through subjects and styles that were at once "interesting" and that, in principle, were in their "interest." These experiments put in question relationships between poetry and prose; lyric and narrative; and literature and popular media. The book places literary works by a range of nineteenth-century writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary and Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and Matthew Arnold into dialogue with a variety of non-literary and paraliterary forms ranging from newspapers to footnotes. The book investigates the generic structures of Romantic literature and the negotiation of the status of literature in the period in relation to a new media landscape. It explores the self-theorization of Romantic literature and argues for its value to contemporary literary criticism.

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ISBN: 9781611488685
Publication date: 1st January 2018
Author: Mai-Lin Cheng
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 206 pages
Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
Genres: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900