Romantic Verse Narrative - The History of a Genre

Klappentext Hermann Fischer's acclaimed study of Romantic verse narrative! available for the first time in English. Zusammenfassung Hermann Fischer's lively and original 1991 study of Romantic verse narrative traces in comprehensive detail the origins and development of this poetic form in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This translation! extensively revised and updated! makes Hermann Fischer's acclaimed study available for the first time in English. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Genre and its Historical Context; 1. Genre definitions; 2. The initial situation; Part II. The History of the Romantic Tale in Verse: Poets, Works, Critics and the Public: 3. Early forms; 4. The establishment of the genre by Sir Walter Scott, its fashionable period and imitations by other poets; 5. 'The postscript of the Augustans' and the opposite of the romance; 6. Ramification and dissolution; 7. The subsequent fate of the genre; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Hermann Fischer, Hermann (Universitat Mannheim Fischer, Fischer Hermann
• Assisted by: Ulrich Broich (Editor), Sue Bollans (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.03.2006
• EAN: 9780521024334
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02433-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: European Studies in English Li
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies