Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Ward teaches at the University of Birmingham. He is the co-editor, with Clare Bucknell, of Byron Among the English Poets: Literary Tradition and Poetic Legacy (CUP, 2021), and has published on poetry and the history of ideas in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, Essays in Criticism, Cambridge Quarterly, the Keats-Shelley Review, and The Byron Journal. Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling is his first monograph. Klappentext Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling embraces the sublime and the ridiculous to offer a compelling new reading of British Romanticism. Matthew Ward reveals the decisive role laughter and the laughable play in Romantic aesthetics, emotions, and ethics. Zusammenfassung Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling embraces the sublime and the ridiculous to offer a compelling new reading of British Romanticism. Matthew Ward reveals the decisive role laughter and the laughable play in Romantic aesthetics, emotions, and ethics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations A Note on the Texts Introduction PART ONE ON LAUGHTER 1: Laughter Means Sympathy? 2: An Incongruous Pair: A Romantic Sense of Humour and the Poetic Imagination PART TWO ON LAUGHING POETS AND POETICS 3: Wordsworth's Laughing Company 4: Shelley's Poetic Measures and Laughing Pleasures 5: Keats's Melodious Chuckle Coda: Byron's Last Laugh Selected Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Ward, Matthew (Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Lite Ward
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2024
• EAN: 9780198894766
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889476-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History of Ideas, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, HISTORY / Social History, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets