Romantic Misfits by R Miles
This book explores the false starts and disturbances of Romantic writing in Britain - 'misfits' and misfittings - as both a constitutive challenge to canonical romanticism and a distinctive literary field worth examining on its own account. Misfits include the Shakespeare forger W.H. Ireland, the novel itself, and the culture of Dissent.-
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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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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Remaking Romanticism
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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
'. .a book that contains such a wealth of material and perceptive discussion...' - English Studies
'Miles offers a nuanced understanding of Romanticism's origins, cultural manifestations, and legacy. Romantic Misfits makes important points about the limitations of the historical models that have organized Romantic studies, and it attests to the rewards of critically examining scholarly clichés and cultural givens.' - Nicole Reynolds, Eighteenth-Century Fiction
'Robert Miles's Romantic Misfits is an erudite, far-ranging reconsideration of Romanticism that cleverly fuses both old and new conceptualizations of the period. . . Romantic Misfits remains an outstanding, learned and deeply thoughtful achievement, presenting an updated narrative of Romantic critical history that will solidify the reader's grasp of the interplay and progress of seminal modes of thought.' - Celestine Woo, Romantic Circles Review
'This project creates the opportunity for a wide-ranging discussion on the vexed issue of the 'canon', and Miles's five chapters consider a comprehensive selection of writers.' - English Studies
'Robert Miles's wonderful new book, Romantic Misfits, examines the dialectic of inclusion and exclusion in the formation of the Romantic poetic canon. . . Miles's wide-ranging chapters on W.H. Ireland's Shakespeare forgeries, Wordsworth's Gothic, Thomas Carlyle's and Coleridge's abjects, the Romantic novel's technologies, and Anna LaetitiaBarbauld's feminism are chock-full of magical and fresh material.' - Studies in English Literature, 49:4
'His interrogation of these processes of selection and organization which have had such enduring impact, not just on the formation of the Romantic canon but more fundamentally, on our inherited ideas about literature itself, is driven by a shrewd blend of theoretical analysis (especially Pierre Bourdieu and Jurgen Habermas, though Miles helpfully reads the latter through J.L. Austen's speech act theory), historical contextualization, and subtle literary readings.' - Paul Keen, European Romantic Review
'Professor Miles' striking Romantic Misfits is a very important and newly informative - book for scholars of both British Romantic and English 'Gothic' writing. I believe that Gothicists and Romanticists at every level of serious study should and will be unpacking this intense, deeply theoretical, and most revealing book for many years to come.' - Jerrold E. Hogle, University Distinguished Professor, The University of Arizona, USA
'Romantic Misfits is a truly groundbreaking study of Romantic literature and its relationship to the institutions and media of the Enlightenment. More than a study of how the Romantic canon took shape, Miles's book is an inquiry into the nature of canonicity itself, that is, why highly unconventional discourses become the basis for conventional thinking. It has fundamentally changed the way I think about the Romantic period and the critical ethos that is its legacy.' - Alexander Dick, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada
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| ISBN 13 | 9781137018526 |
| ISBN 10 | 1137018526 |
| Title | Romantic Misfits |
| Author | R Miles |
| Series | Palgrave Studies In The Enlightenment Romanticism And Cultures Of Print |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Year published | 2008-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 227 |
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