
This book is a history and theory of British poetry between 1760 and 1830, focussing on the relationship between Romantic poetry and the production, circulation and textuality of ballads. By discussing the ways in which eighteenth-century cultural and literary researches flowed into and shaped key canonical works, Maureen McLane argues that romantic poetry's influences went far beyond the merely l...
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (Book 76)
Paperback: 316 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Reissue edition (July 14, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521349508
ISBN-13: 978-0521349505
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 2916061
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This is a fashionable, rather than an insightful book. It is valuable for the materials it presents, not for what it says about them. But the author is certainly smart, and her next volume, beyond the need to cite all the right names, should be wor...
eathing life into the work of eighteenth-century balladeers and antiquarians, she addresses the revival of the ballad, the figure of the minstrel, and the prevalence of a 'minstrelsy complex' in romanticism. Furthermore, she envisages a new way of engaging with romantic poetics, encompassing both 'oral' and 'literary' modes of poetic construction, and anticipates the role that technology might play in a media-driven twenty-first century. The study will be of great interest to scholars and students of Romantic poetry, literature and culture.