Counterfactual Romanticism /
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Imprint: | Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019. |
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Description: | xii, 324 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Interventions : rethinking the nineteenth century Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series) |
Subject: | Romanticism. Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature, Modern. Romanticism. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11989904 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Counterfactual Romanticism / Damian Walford Davies
- 1. "The object as in itself it really is not" : counterfactual Romanticism and the aesthetics of contingency / Anne C. McCarthy
- 2. Door-to-door and across-the-counter factualas : history as fashion, furniture, fraud, forgery, folklore and fiction in the Romantic onset of modernity / Gary Kelly
- 3. The possibilists : Romantic-era literary forgery and British alternative pasts / Mary-Ann Constantine
- 4. Sophia Lee's "The Recess" and the epistemology of the counterfactual / Tilottama Rajan
- 5. Lord Byron reads "The Prelude" / Kenneth R. Johnston
- 6. Counterfactual obstetrics : Mary Wollstonecraft's "Frankenstein" / Damian Walford Davies
- 7. John Thelwall : a counterfactual ghost story / Judith Thompson
- 8. Counterfactual speculations in late Romanticism : Scott, Banim, Galt and Mitford / Angela Esterhammer
- 9. Piratical counterfactual, piratical counterfictional : from Misson to melodrama / Manushag N. Powell
- 10. Romanticism and the (counterfactual) Chinese awakening / Peter J. Kitson
- 11. Counterfactual and future Romanticisms : the academy and the canon / Edward Larrissy.