Counterfactual Romanticism / / edited by Damian Walford Davies [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 809.9145
• Soggetto topico: Romanticism; Literature, Modern - 19th century - History and criticism
• Soggetto non controllato: counterfactual thought; historiography; literary criticism; literary history; literary theory, Romanticism
• Persona (resp. second.): DaviesDamian Walford
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2019.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Counterfactual Romanticism
• ISBN: 1-5261-0801-1; 1-5261-5037-9; 1-5261-0707-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823297903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Interventions. Rethinking the nineteenth century.; Manchester scholarship online.