An edition of Reading public romanticism (1998)

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An edition of Reading public romanticism (1998)

Reading public romanticism

Reading Public Romanticism is a significant new example of the linking of esthetics and historical criticism. Here Paul Magnuson locates Romantic poetry within a public discourse that combines politics and esthetics, nationalism and domesticity, sexuality and morality, law and legitimacy.

Building on his well-regarded previous work, Magnuson practices a methodology of close historical reading by identifying precise versions of poems, reading their rhetoric of allusion and quotation in the contexts of their original publication, and describing their public genres, such as the letter. He studies the author's public signature or motto, the forms and significance of address used in poems, and the resonances of poetic language and tropes in the public debates.

According to Magnuson, "reading locations" means reading the writing that surrounds a poem, the "paratext" or "frame" of the esthetic boundary. In their particular locations in the public discourse, romantic poems are illocutionary speech acts that take a stand on public issues and legitimate their authors both as public characters and as writers.

He traces the public significance of canonical poems commonly considered as lyrics with little explicit social or political commentary, including Wordsworth's "Immortality Ode"; Coleridge's "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," "Frost at Midnight," and "The Ancient Mariner"; and Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn." He also positions Byron's Dedication to Don Juan in the debates over Southey's laureateship and claims for poetic authority and legitimacy.

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217

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Reading Public Romanticism
2016, Princeton University Press
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Reading Public Romanticism
2014, Princeton University Press
in English
Cover of: Reading Public Romanticism
Reading Public Romanticism
2014, Princeton University Press
in English
Cover of: Reading Public Romanticism
Reading Public Romanticism
2014, Princeton University Press
in English
Cover of: Reading public romanticism
Reading public romanticism
1998, Princeton University Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Princeton, N.J

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
821/.709145
Library of Congress
PR590 .M22 1998, PR590.M22 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 217 p. ;
Number of pages
217

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL686465M
Internet Archive
readingpublicrom0000magn
ISBN 10
069105794X
LCCN
97033387
OCLC/WorldCat
37418317
Library Thing
421707
Goodreads
3348332

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