Remaking Romanticism by Casie Legette
This book shows that the publishers and editors of the radical press deployed Romantic-era texts for their own political ends—and for their largely working-class readership—long after those works’ original publication. It examines how the literature of the British Romantic period was excerpted and reprinted in radical political papers in Britain in the nineteenth century. The agents of this story were bound by neither the chronological march of literary history, nor by the original form of the literary texts they reprinted. Godwin’s Caleb Williams and poems by Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, and Shelley appear throughout this book as they appeared in the nineteenth century, in bits and pieces. Radical publishers and editors carefully and purposefully excerpted the works of their recent past, excavating useful political claims from the midst of less amenable texts, and remaking texts and authors alike in the process.
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Compiling Texts in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Finnish Romanticism
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A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age
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The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy
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Urban Enlightenment and the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay
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British Historical Fiction before Scott
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Literary History Writing, 1770-1820
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Transformations of a Genre
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Romantic Cosmopolitanism
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Romanticism and the Museum
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The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1815
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British Women Writers and the French Revolution
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Romantic Misfits
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Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830
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Romanticism and the Letter
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The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism, 1790-1837
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Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760
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Romantic Literature and the Colonised World
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John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination
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British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation
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Dark Romanticism
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Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature
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The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
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Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830
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Romantic Hellenism and Women Writers
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Romanticism and Blackwood's Magazine
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Empiricism and the Early Theory of the Novel
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The Form of Poetry in the 1820s and 1830s
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Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs
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Fictions of Friendship in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
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Romanticism and the Gold Standard
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Creating Romanticism
“Remaking Romanticism is a book that will be most enjoyed by readers with a strong interest in either or both the history of printing and the history of radical politics in Britain, but it makes valuable contributions that deserve wider recognition” (Richard Hughes Gibson, The Coleridge Bulletin, Issue 56, 2020)
“They are helpful overviews for scholars well-versed in the material, and invaluable for students coming to the field. Her discoveries in her readings are often surprising, and sometimes quite humorous, which makes the book both exciting, and a pleasure to read. In short, the book charts brilliantly a way forward for political readings of Romanticism.” (Michael Demson, Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 58 (1), 2019)
“Remaking Romanticism: The Radical Politics of the Excerpt explores ‘how the literature of the Romantic period was excerpted and reprinted in radical papers in Britain throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, and beyond’ … . LeGette’s insightful analysis, which extends the scope of Romanticism in several directions while redefining its temporal and social landscape in compelling ways.” (Dana Van Kooy, European Romantic Review, Vol. 30 (1), 2019)
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| ISBN 13 | 9783319836225 |
| ISBN 10 | 3319836226 |
| Title | Remaking Romanticism |
| Author | Casie Legette |
| Series | Palgrave Studies In The Enlightenment Romanticism And Cultures Of Print |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing AG |
| Year published | 2018-07-13 |
| Number of pages | 245 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |