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Myth As Genre in British Romantic Poetry

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The notion that Romantic poetry is mythopoeic has become one of our assumptions about the Romantic period. This study re-evaluates that assumption from a new perspective, that of genre criticism, and argues that myth functions as an effective critical term only when it is defined pragmatically as a genre. In this study, myth is defined as a text that projects a world structured around three components: supernatural beings, humans, and nature. Using this model, My… More >>

Myth As Genre in British Romantic Poetry

Sexual Power in British Romantic Poetry

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This work examines the historical and social relations among bourgeois ideology, romantic idealism and sexual violence, in order to describe the gender-specific dynamics of the romantic imagination and to retrieve certain utopian and potentially transformative elements within romanticism…. More >>

Sexual Power in British Romantic Poetry

Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry

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This is a new history and theory of British poetry between 1760 and 1830, focusing 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 literary. Breathing new life into the work of eighteenth-century balladee… More >>

Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry