Romanticism and the uses of genre /
David Duff.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- x, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-235) and index.
The old imperial code. The disorder of things; The neoclassical genre-system; Genre versus genius; The cognitive turn -- Romantic genre theory. Anglo-German dialogues; The revolutionary contex; The language of forms; Wordsworth in 1815 -- (Anti-)didacticism. Pure and applied poetry; Palpable designs; The didactic poem; Aesthetic Education -- Archaism and innovation. Ancients and moderns; The antiquarian dilemma; Make old, make it new; The dialectic of revivalism -- The combinatorial method. Origins and absolutes; rough-mixing and smooth-mixing; The politics of miscellany; Shelley and the 'great poem'.
9780199572748 (acidfree paper) 0199572747
Romanticism--Great Britain. English literature--History and criticism.--18th century English literature--History and criticism.--19th century Literary form.