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UNINA9910793610703321 |
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Titolo |
Counterfactual Romanticism / / edited by Damian Walford Davies [[electronic resource]] |
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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2020 |
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ISBN |
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1-5261-0801-1 |
1-5261-5037-9 |
1-5261-0707-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Interventions. Rethinking the nineteenth century |
Manchester scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Romanticism |
Literature, Modern - 19th century - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2019. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : counterfactual Romanticism / Damian Walford Davies -- 'The object as in itself it really is not' : counterfactual Romanticism and the aesthetics of contingency / Anne C. McCarthy -- Door-to-door and across-the-counter factuals : history as fashion, furniture, fraud, forgery, folklore and fiction in the Romantic onset of modernity / Gary Kelly -- The possibilists : Romantic-era literary forgery and British alternative pasts / Mary-Ann Constantine -- Sophia Lee's The recess and the epistemology of the counterfactual / Tilottama Rajan -- Lord Byron reads The prelude / Kenneth R. Johnston -- Counterfactual obstetrics : Mary Wollstonecraft's Frankenstein / Damian Walford Davies -- John Thelwall : a counterfactual ghost story / Judith Thompson -- Counterfactual speculations in late Romanticism : Scott, Banim, Galt and Mitford / Angela Esterhammer -- Piratical counterfactual, piratical counterfictional : from Misson to melodrama / Manushag N. Powell -- Romanticism and the (counterfactual) Chinese awakening / Peter J. Kitson -- Counterfactual and future Romanticisms : the academy and the canon / Edward Larrissy. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and |
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theory, 'Counterfactual Romanticism' reveals the ways in which the shapes of Romanticism are conditioned by that which did not come to pass. Exploring various modalities of counterfactual speculation and inquiry across a range of Romantic-period authors, genres and concerns, this collection offers a radical new purchase on literary history, on the relationship between history and fiction, and on our historicist methods to date - and thus on the Romanticisms we (think we) have inherited. |
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