Reading, Writing, and Romanticismbridges a perceived gulf between materialist and idealist approaches to the reader. Informed by an historical awareness of Romantic hermeneutics and its later developments (as well as by an understanding of the circumstances conditioning the production and consumption of literature in this period), the book examines how readers are imagined, addressed, figured and theorized in Romantic poetry and criticism (1790-1830). Models of canon-formation, intertextuality and reader-response are considered alongside the existence of reading-coteries, the social practices of reading, and reforms in copyright. Consideration is given to the philosophical and ideological influences which bear upon the status of reading at this time, as well as to the educational theories and practices which underpin reading habits. Non-canonical writers are included, and special attention is given to the emergence of women's poetry and its repercussions for the poetics of reception.
Preface Part I. The Anxiety Of Reception 1. The Sense of an Audience 2. Case-Study 1: Coleridge 3. Case-Study 2: Wordsworth 4. Case-Study 3: Anna Barbauld Part II: Crossings on the Creative-Critical Divide 5. Competition and Collaboration in Periodical Culture 6. Feminising the Poetics of Reception 7. 'One Power with a Double Aspect': The Formation of a System of Defences 8. The Terror of Futurity; Repetition, Identification, and Doubling 9. Reading Aloud: An 'Ambiguous Accompaniment' Notes Bibliography Index
Lucy Newlyn is Lecturer in English, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
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