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Romanticism and Form gives a snapshot of what and where the recent revival of formalism in Romantic Studies is up to, offering new analyses of canonical texts, contextualisations of Romantic forms in relation to war, nationalism, propaganda and empire, reassessments of neglected and marginalised writers and new explorations of the relationship between form and reader. The volume showcases a range of new approaches to form that are distanced from New Criticism but informed by deconstruction, new historicism, feminism, theology and new technology.
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Romanticism and Form Edited by Alan Rawes Romanticism and Form Also by Alan Rawes BYRON’S POETIC EXPERIMENTATION: Childe Harold, the Tales and the Quest for Comedy ENGLISH ROMANTICISM AND THE CELTIC WORLD (co-edited with Gerard Carruthers) ROMANTIC BIOGRAPHY (co-edited with Arthur Bradley) Romanticism and Form Edited by Alan Rawes Introduction, editorial selection and Chapter 6 © Alan Rawes 2007 Individual chapters © contributors 2007 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2007 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN-13: 978 1 4039 9472 1 hardback ISBN-10: 1 4039 9472 2 hardback This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Romanticism and form/edited by Alan Rawes. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN-13: 978 1 4039 9472 1 ISBN-10: 1 4039 9472 2 1. English poetry“19th century“History and criticism. 2. English poetry“18th century“History and criticism. 3. Romanticism“Great Britain. 4. Literary form“History“19th century. 5. Literary form“ History“18th century. 6. Poetry“Authorship“History“ 19th century. 7. Poetry“Authorship“History“18th century. I. Rawes, Alan. PR590.R597 2007 821.009“dc22 2006053012 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham and Eastbourne Contents List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction Alan Rawes xii 1 Romantic Indirection Paul M. Curtis 1 2 ‘Conscript Fathers and Shuffling Recruits’: Formal Self-awareness in Romantic Poetry Michael O’Neill 3 Romantic Invocation: A Form of Impossibility Gavin Hopps 4 ‘Ruinous Perfection’: Reading Authors and Writing Readers in Romantic Fragments Mark Sandy 5 Combinatoric Form in Nineteenth-century Satiric Prints