Placing and Displacing Romanticism - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0754606023 ISBN 13 : 9780754606024

Editeur : Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2001

Synopsis

Romanticism has often been concerned with the literal sense of "place". British Romanticism has variously been placed in the West Country, the Lake District, North Wales, the Wye Valley and Scotland. It also shows a concern with the "place" in an antithetical sense, imagining a city as an artificial and corrupting phenomenon. The dialogue of place and displacement as a feature of Romatic period writing is often regarded as a response to the great historical movements of urbanization and industrialization that marked late 18th- and 19th-century British life. "Displacement" was also a significant usage in Romanticism. It could be interpreted as alienation or the displacement of historical, social and political tensions at the time. The essays in this volume interpret the critical issues of "place" and "displacement", "placing" and "displacing" in their figurative and their literal senses. They show a desire to return to the compexity of the texts and the contexts in which they were written, and argue that Romantic texts are self-conscious and self-reflective.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0754606023
• ISBN 13: 9780754606024
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Kitson Peter
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible