Counterfactual Romanticism

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Counterfactual Romanticism reveals the ways in which the shapes of Romanticism are conditioned by that which did not come to pass. Exploring various modalities of counterfactual speculation and inquiry across a range of Romantic-period authors, genres and concerns, this collection offers a radical new purchase on literary history, on the relationship between history and fiction, and on our historicist methods to date – and thus on the Romanticisms we (think we) have inherited. Counterfactual Romanticism provides a ground-breaking method of re-reading literary pasts and our own reading presents; in the process, literary production, texts and reading practices are unfossilised and defamiliarised.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-05-30
Mått138 x 216 x 22 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieInterventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
Antal sidor336
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526171832

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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