This study of the constructive and ultimately canon-forming relationship between satiric and Romantic modes of writing from 1760 to 1832 hopes to provide a new understanding of the historical development of Romanticism as a literary movement. Romantic poetry is conventionally seen as inward turning, sentimental, sublime, and transcendent, whereas satire, with its public, profane, and topical rhetoric, is commonly cast in the role of generic other as THE un-Romantic mode. This book argues instead that the two modes mutually defined each other and were subtly interwoven during the Romantic period. By rearranging reputations, changing aesthetic assumptions, and redistributing cultural capital, the interaction of satiric and Romantic modes helped make possible the Victorian and modern construction of 'English Romanticism'.
- ISBN10 1281366846
- ISBN13 9781281366849
- Publish Date 1 January 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave MacMillan
- Format eBook
- Pages 262
- Language English