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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"British Romanticism"”.
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Poetic Madness and the Reception of British Romanticism 1800-1870
… fortunes in reception and reputation of some British poets, their works, and conceptions of Romanticism generally.<br/>The first part provides an account of the most important contexts for the subject, including: the currency of popular myths on the topic, the relevance (or otherwise) of later …
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Pirates of Romanticism: Intellectual Property Ideology and the Birth of British Romanticism
… publication in the posthumous construction of British Romanticism as a literary movement. It argues that Romantic ideology emerged from conflicting claims about the nature of intellectual property and the circulation of political and artistic ideas, apparent in the texts and paratexts of …
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How She Haunts: Missed Endings, the Fragmentary, and the Female Figure in British Romanticism
… My claim is not that these are exemplary British Romantic fragments but rather that they lend themselves to a more detailed analysis of how fragmentary aspects influence a text and its readerly responses precisely because they are fragments that are concerned with, or are aware of, their …
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"Phillis Wheatley: Canon and ""Orature"""
"In my last chapter, ""Phillis Wheatley and British Romanticism,"" I giving serious consideration to the poet's place in the Western canon, by attempting to extend John Shields's exploration of her relationship to above literary movement."
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Shaping "The Second Half Century" : the Architectural Review, 1947-1971
This study explores the editorial policies of the British periodical, The Architectural Review, in the quarter century between 1947 and 1971. In January 1947, its fiftieth anniversary, The Architectural Review published an editorial manifesto, entitled "The Second Half Century," declaring a program …
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"A singular person": Portraits of subjectivity in the poetry and prose of Matilda Betham
… methods to examine Betham's contribution to British Romanticism. It offers a biography of Betham and a historically contextualised analysis of her own construction of women's role in civic affairs. Betham's political affiliations, as well as the generic range of her poetic and scholarly …
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The Complete Poems of Anne Bannerman
… and examines her work in the context of British Romanticism, the Gothic, Scottish nationalism, and the ballad tradition. Close-readings of the poems examine the ways in which Bannerman’s female narrators challenge early nineteenth-century conceptualizations of gender, particularly in …
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Romanticism at Scale
This thesis contends that scale is Romantic, and Romanticism is scalar. Defined as a ‘difference in size that makes a difference’ (after Gregory Bateson), scale is both real and discursive, and can be understood as an aspect of the historical, economic, and intellectual transformations in relation …
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Blake's Lowness
This thesis discusses the place of lowness in Blake’s corpus. It examines his inclusion of elements of the artless, the vulgar, the unlettered, the popular, the bathetic, not as lapses in poetic ability but as ways of challenging prevailing aesthetic and intellectual values from below. It traces …
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Lord Byron's Scandals and Contemporary Cancel Culture
The following is a case study in contemporary cancel culture through three cases of it in the nineteenth century. Lord Byron, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Harriet Beecher Stowe serve as three prominent cases of cancel culture in their time period that are all closely linked to one another. Cancel …
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Touching Time: Forms of Romantic Temporality
… with, observation. Touching Time argues that British Romantic literature develops a new approach to tactility, a way of engaging with the world physically in the present in order to introduce new possibilities for the future. While the field of vision is experienced linearly as we attach …
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Dangerous men: the crisis of masculinity in Romantic women's fiction
My dissertation establishes a pre-history of the Byronic and Austenian hero, contributing to larger discussions of masculinity, women’s writing, and feminist literary studies in the Romantic period. I address a gap in Romantic-era scholarship by interrogating how proto-Byronic and Austenian heroes …