British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest

British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest explores the importance of human interest to Romantic literature, examining literary experiments that question relationships between poetry and prose, lyric and narrative, and literature and popular media. It places nineteenth-century writers in dialogue with non-literary forms and investigates the generic structures of Romantic literature and its negotiation of the status of literature in the period in relation to a new media landscape. It argues for the value of Romantic literature to contemporary literary criticism.

Format: Hardback
Length: 206 pages
Publication date: 22 December 2017
Publisher: Bucknell University Press

British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest delves into the profound significance of human interest in Romantic literature. It conducts an extensive examination of a diverse array of literary experiments aimed at captivating readers through captivating subjects and styles that, in principle, held their interest. These experiments challenge the boundaries between poetry and prose, lyric and narrative, and literature and popular media. The book brings together literary works by a multitude of nineteenth-century writers, including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary and Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and Matthew Arnold, in a lively dialogue with a wide range of non-literary and paraliterary forms, spanning from newspapers to footnotes. Furthermore, it explores the generic structures of Romantic literature and investigates the complex negotiation of literature's status in the period in relation to the emerging media landscape. The book also delves into the self-theorization of Romantic literature and makes a compelling case for its enduring value in contemporary literary criticism.

Weight: 478g
Dimension: 160 x 238 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781611488685