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Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft
Tilottama Rajan
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Description for Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft
Hardback. Effective, articulate, and readable, Romantic Narrative will appeal to scholars in both nineteenth-century studies and narrative theory. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 546.
Often identified with its lyric poetry, Romanticism has come to be dismissed by historicists as an ineffectual idealism. By focusing on Romantic narrative, noted humanist Tilottama Rajan takes issue with this identification, as well as with the equation of narrative itself with the governmental apparatus of the Novel. Exploring the role of narrativity in the works of Romantic writers, Rajan also reflects on larger disciplinary issues such as the role of poetry versus prose in an emergent modernity and the place of Romanticism itself in a Victorianized nineteenth century. While engaging both genres, Romantic Narrative responds to the ... Read more
Often identified with its lyric poetry, Romanticism has come to be dismissed by historicists as an ineffectual idealism. By focusing on Romantic narrative, noted humanist Tilottama Rajan takes issue with this identification, as well as with the equation of narrative itself with the governmental apparatus of the Novel. Exploring the role of narrativity in the works of Romantic writers, Rajan also reflects on larger disciplinary issues such as the role of poetry versus prose in an emergent modernity and the place of Romanticism itself in a Victorianized nineteenth century. While engaging both genres, Romantic Narrative responds to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801897214
SKU
V9780801897214
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About Tilottama Rajan
Tilottama Rajan is Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Western Ontario, where she was also previously Director of the Centre for Theory and Criticism. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard.
Reviews for Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft
With philosophical sophistication and extraordinary critical intelligence, Rajan also presents complex and original readings. Choice 2011