Counterfactual Romanticism /

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Imprint:Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
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
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Other authors / contributors:Davies, Damian Walford, editor.
ISBN:9781784991418
1784991414
9781526108012 (ePub ebook)
9781526107077 (PDF ebook)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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. Counterfactual Romanticism provides a ground-breaking method of re-reading literary pasts and our own reading presents; in the process, literary production, texts and reading practices are unfossilised and defamiliarised."--
Other form:ebook version : 9781526108012
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.