Romanticism, History, Historicism Essays on an Orthodoxy [Hardcover]

The (re)turn to history in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicisms revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment of the field and in the expansion of the Romantic canon. In this major new collection of eleven essays, critics reflect on New Historicisms inheritance, its achievements and its limitations. Integrating a self-reflexive engagement with New Historicisms history and detailed attention to a range of Romantic lives and literary texts, the collection offers a close-up view of Romanticisms hybrid present, and a dynamic vision of its future.

Preface: A Poem Should be Equal To: / Not True Alan Liu  Introduction: Reflections on an Orthodoxy Damian Walford Davies  1. The Incommensurable Value of Historicism Tim Milnes  2. The Hair of Milton: Historicism and Literary History Erik Gray  3. In Embalm?d Darkness : Keats, the Picturesque, and the Limits of Historicization Kelly Grovier  4. Telling Lives to Children: Young versus New Historicism in Little Arthurs History of England Michael Simpson  5. Whose History? My Place or Yours? Republican Assumptions and Romantic Traditions Kenneth R. Johnston  6. Overlooking History: The Case of John Thelwall Judith Thompson  7. Byrons Cainand the History of Cradle Songs Damian Walford Davies  8. Romanticism, Feminism, History, Historicism: A Conversation Anne K. Mellor and Susan J. Wolfson  9. Romanticism and the Feminist Uses of History Gary Kelly  10. New Historicism, New Austen, New Romanticism Robert Miles&nbsl“'