By Tilottama Rajan

ISBN-10: 0801897211

ISBN-13: 9780801897214

frequently pointed out with its lyric poetry, Romanticism has end up brushed off via historicists as an ineffectual idealism. by way of targeting Romantic narrative, famous humanist Tilottama Rajan takes factor with this identity, in addition to with the equation of narrative itself with the governmental gear of the radical. Exploring the function of narrativity within the works of Romantic writers, Rajan additionally displays on higher disciplinary concerns similar to the position of poetry as opposed to prose in an emergent modernity and where of Romanticism itself in a Victorianized 19th century.While attractive either genres, Romantic Narrative responds to the present serious shift from poetry to prose through concentrating, sarcastically, on a poetics of narrative in Romantic prose fiction. Rajan argues that poiesis, as a style of pondering, is Romanticism's legacy to an age of prose. She elucidates this thesis via cautious readings of Shelley's Alastor and his Gothic novels, Godwin's Caleb Williams and St. Leon, Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney, and Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman.Rajan, winner of the Keats-Shelley Association's uncommon Lifetime Award and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is one among Romanticism's best students. powerful, articulate, and readable, Romantic Narrative will entice students in either nineteenth-century experiences and narrative theory.

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