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Informationen zum Autor Dr Porscha Fermanis is a Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. Her research interests include the relationship between Enlightenment and Romanticism; Romantic-era historiography and historical fiction; and Romantic poetry and poetics. She has published John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), and is currently working on A Concise History of Romanticism (with Carmen Casaliggi, forthcoming 2015) and a monograph entitled Romantic Pasts: Narrative History in Britain and Ireland, 1770-1850.Dr John Regan is a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. His current research interests centre on the inter-relatedness of poetry, aesthetics, and historiography in the long eighteenth-century. Dr Regan has published on Scott's prosody, philosophical history and late Enlightenment antiquarianism, and the relations between versification and historiography in Byron. Klappentext Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845 brings together a team of leading scholars to examine the interactions between history and literature in the Romantic period, focusing on practical as well as theoretical interconnections between the two genres and disciplines. Zusammenfassung Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845 brings together a team of leading scholars to examine the interactions between history and literature in the Romantic period, focusing on practical as well as theoretical interconnections between the two genres and disciplines. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction History, Genre, Rhetoric The History Girls: Charlotte Smith's History of England and the Politics of Women's Educational History 'The fanciful traditions of early nations': History, Myth, and Orientalist Poetry in India Prior to James Mill No 'Nonsense upon stilts': James Mill's History of British India and the Poetics of Benthamite Historiography A 'poor crotchety picture of several things': Antiquarianism, Subjectivity, and the Novel in Thomas Carlyle's Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell Historical Space and Time 'To trace thy country's glories to their source': Dangerous History in Thomas Pennant's Tour in Wales Historicism, Temporalization, and Romantic Prophecy in Percy Shelley's Hellas Magazines, Don Juan, and the Scotch Novels: Deep and Shallow Time in the Regency 'Diamonds by Which the Eye is Charmed': Facets of Romantic Historiography in the Works of Richard Parkes Bonington Aesthetics of History The Same Rehearsal of the Past: Byron and the Aesthetics of History and Culture Byron, Clare, and Poetic Historiography Historical Fiction and the Fractured Atlantic A Bookish History of Irish Romanticism ...
