LEADER 03360nam 22006015 450 001 9910634044803321 005 20251009105855.0 010 $a9783031187728$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031187711 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-18772-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7153771 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7153771 035 $a(CKB)25616794300041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-18772-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925616794300041 100 $a20221208d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRomantics and the Era of Early Flight /$fby John Gilroy 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (268 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Gilroy, John Romantics and the Era of Early Flight Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031187711 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Origins -- 3. New Prospects -- 4. A Federation of the World -- 5. Air-Mindedness -- 6. Later Romantics ? Keats and Shelley -- 7. Balloons, Romantics and Beyond -- 8. Conclusion. 330 $aThis book explores the significance of flight to Romantic literature. Although the Romantic movement and the age of ballooning coincided, there has been a curious and long-time tendency to forget that flight was not impossible during this period. This study details the importance of this new technology to Romantic authors, primarily English Romantic poets. It combines accounts of the exploits and experiences of early balloonists with references to Romantic texts, using ballooning lore to illuminate a range of Romantic writings. The balloonists are seen as not just supplying these writers with a new code of metaphors, but as colleagues engaged in similarly imaginative enterprises. The book uncovers an ?aerial imagination? shared by a large number of writers in the Romantic period that has its origins in the balloon adventures of the 1780s and following two decades. It will appeal to scholars and students of Romantic cultural history, as well as those interested in Romantic poetry andthe history of early aeronautics. John Gilroy was formerly a senior lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University and panel tutor at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education, UK, where he served as a course director for many years. 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aScience$xHistory 606 $aLiterary History 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aHistory of Science 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 14$aLiterary History. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 676 $a821.709 676 $a821.609145 700 $aGilroy$b John$0224248 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910634044803321 996 $aRomantics and the Era of Early Flight$92996416 997 $aUNINA