Romanticism and the uses of genre/

Main Author: Duff, David, 1962-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
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Table of Contents:
  • The old imperial code. The disorder of things; The neoclassical genre-system; Genre versus genius; The cognitive turn
  • Romantic genre theory. Anglo-German dialogues; The revolutionary contex; The language of forms; Wordsworth in 1815
  • (Anti-)didacticism. Pure and applied poetry; Palpable designs; The didactic poem; Aesthetic Education
  • Archaism and innovation. Ancients and moderns; The antiquarian dilemma; Make old, make it new; The dialectic of revivalism
  • The combinatorial method. Origins and absolutes; rough-mixing and smooth-mixing; The politics of miscellany; Shelley and the ʹgreat poemʹ.