Writing Romanticism by J Labbe

Writing Romanticism by J Labbe

What is Wordsworthian Romanticism and how did it evolve? What happens if we read the poetry of Charlotte Smith into the equation? Now in paperback for the first time, this book argues that what we have commonly labelled the 'Wordsworthian' in fact emerges from the sustained attention the young Wordsworth paid to the thematics of place, history, memory, and subjectivity in Smith's work: a Smithian poetics. What follows is a period of mutual reading, each poet attuned to and absorbing the work of the other, in a virtual partnership more productive to the development of English poetry than any other of the period. Although they met only once, their work shows, throughout the 1790s and until Smith's death in 1806, a common devotion to innovation and experimentation that establishes Romantic poetry. This book demonstrates that the two poets co-wrote a poetics that stands for many readers as representatively Romantic, and represents a significant and original re-evaluation of the Romantic period.

'Jacqueline Labbe's work on Charlotte Smith is second to none..Labbe's is a bold vision, and one likely to change the way in which

we view early Romanticism.' - Claire Knowles, European Romantic Review

JACQUELINE M. LABBE teaches and researches in the area of British Romantic Poetry and Poetics at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of the first scholarly book on Charlotte Smith's poetry and of numerous articles on Smith and Wordsworth. She has written three monographs, edited and contributed to four major collections of essays, and edited Smith's poetry and her novel The Old Manor House (1794).

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ISBN 13	9780230285491
ISBN 10	023028549X
Title	Writing Romanticism
Author	J Labbe
Series	Palgrave Studies In The Enlightenment Romanticism And Cultures Of Print
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	2011-06-13
Number of pages	218
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