Counterfactual Romanticism

Informationen zum Autor Damian Walford Davies is Professor of English and Pro Vice-Chancellor (College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) at Cardiff University Klappentext Extends counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory Zusammenfassung Extends counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography! criticism and theory -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Counterfactual Romanticism - Damian Walford Davies1. 'The Object As In Itself It Really Is Not'. Counterfactual Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Contingency - Anne C. McCarthy2. Door-to-door and Across-the-counter Factuals: History as Fashion, Furniture, Fraud, Forgery, Folklore and Fiction in the Romantic Onset of Modernity- Gary Kelly 3. The Possibilists: Romantic-Era Literary Forgery and British Alternative Pasts - Mary-Ann Constantine4. Sophia Lee's The Recess and the Epistemology of the Counterfactual - Tilottama Rajan5. Lord Byron Reads The Prelude - Kenneth R. Johnston6. Counterfactual Obstetrics: Mary Wollstonecraft's Frankenstein - Damian Walford Davies7. John Thelwall: A Counterfactual Ghost Story - Judith Thompson8. Counterfactual Speculations in Late Romanticism: Scott, Banim, Galt and Mitford - Angela Esterhammer9. Piratical Counterfactual, Piratical Counterfictional: From Misson to Melodrama - Manushag N. Powell10. Romanticism and the (Counterfactual) Chinese Awakening - Peter J. Kitson11. Counterfactual and Future Romanticisms: The Academy and The Canon- Edward LarrissyIndex

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• Authors: Author Damian Walford (University of Wales Davies, Author Damian Walford (University of Wales Aberystwyth UK) Davies, Damian Davies, Damian Walford Davies, Damian Walford Davies
• Assisted by: Anna Barton (Editor), Davies Damian Walford Damian Walford (Editor), Damian Walford Davies (Editor), Andrew Smith (Editor), Damian Walford Davies (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781784991418
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-141-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century; Interventions: Rethinking the
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies