Romantic Presences in the Twentieth Century

Mark Sandy is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Durham University, UK.

• Introduction The Persistence of Romantic Presences, Mark Sandy; Chapter 1 Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, and Virginia Woolf, Nicholas Roe; Chapter 2 ‘Strong Ghosts’: Romantic Presences in Yeats’s Poetry, Madeleine Callaghan; Chapter 3 Flexible Genealogies and Romantic Poetics, Lisa M. Steinman; Chapter 4 ‘Altered Forms’: Romanticism and the Poetry of Hart Crane, Michael O’Neill; Chapter 5 The Measured Chaos of Gary Snyder’s Post-Romantic Poetic Form, Paige Tovey; Chapter 6 Webs of Interlocution: Interaction with Others in Wordsworth and Auden, Heidi Thomson; Chapter 7 Seamus Heaney and Romanticism, Edward Larrissy; Chapter 8 Romantic Presences and the Latency of a Nascent Theory of Literature in Romantic Poetry, Michael Mack; Chapter 9 Romanticism’s Fragmentary Unities: Melville, Faulkner, and Lessing, Kathleen Wheeler; Chapter 10 ‘Fiery Part icle’: Keats’s Romantic Presences in the Writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Sandy; Chapter 11 ‘Here then is a maze to begin, be in’: Michael Ondaatje’s Byronic Inheritance, Sarah Wootton; Chapter 12 The Ordinary: Wordsworth, Richard Ford and the Lie of Literature, Andrew Bennett; Chapter 13 ‘Putting the Mind Back into Nature’: The American Novel and the Science of Mind, Stephen J. Burn;

"The recovery of formalism within Romantic Studies over the past six or seven years has meant a return to literary form and its transmission over time. This volume promises to revitalize the debate about how Romanticism helped make Modernism, and about why Modernism continues to deny its inheritance. This is the time for it." - Anne Janowitz, Queen Mary, University of London, UK"... the volume is pleasingly presented, and includes a bibliography that will be of value to scholars embarking on the exploration of this intriguing area of study." - The Wordsworth Circle "[T]he essays collected here justifies the title by drilling deeper and considering the specific formal approaches to figuring the temporally fragmented self that is Romanticism's key legacy to twentieth-century Modernism ... The diversity and sophistication of these accounts of Romanticism's legacy are richly illuminating of both of its sources and inheritors ..." - Romanticism