Wordsworth''s Pope - A Study in Literary Historiography

Klappentext This is a study of the development of a 'romantic literary history'! and its implications for literary historiography. Zusammenfassung Close investigation of the Romantics' view of literary history reveals that Romanticism defined itself by reconfiguring its literary past. Robert J. Griffin traces the genesis and transmission of 'romantic literary history'! questioning many basic assumptions about the chronological and conceptual boundaries of Romanticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The eighteenth-century construction of Romanticism; 2. Refinement, Romanticism, Francis Jeffrey; 3. Wordsworth's Pope; 4. Mirror and lamp; Conclusion, with thoughts on method in literary historiography; Notes; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Robert J. Griffin, Robert J. (Tel-Aviv University) Griffin
• Assisted by: Marilyn Butler (Editor), James Chandler (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2005
• EAN: 9780521023825
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02382-5
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romantici
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies