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Book SynopsisConfiguring Romanticism focuses on the ways in which “Romanticism” continues to change shape in light of new discoveries, new readings, new approaches. To this end, some essays here gathered offer novel interpretations of Romantic “classics” such as Wordsworth, Blake, and Southey, or discuss the Celtic roots of Romanticism. Others address the relationship of Romantic literature, particularly the work of Scott, Shelley, and De Quincey, to issues of colonialism and imperialism. Yet others trace the “afterlife” of Romanticism and the Romantics, specifically Byron, Shelley, and Keats, in the writings of Leigh Hunt, Elizabeth Gaskell, James Thomson, Algernon Swinburne, William Michael Rosetti, James Clarence Mangan, Francis Parkman, Gilbert and Sullivan, and T.S. Eliot, as well as in Dutch nineteenth-century criticism. The volume closes with discussions of the Romantic aspects of World War II propaganda, twentieth-century translations of the Aeneid in view of Romantic principles, the Romantic face of recent Québecois fiction, and present-day film versions of Jane Austen’s Emma.
Table of ContentsForeword Joep LEERSSEN: On the Celtic Roots of a Romantic Theme Bart WESTERWEEL: Some Reflections on William Blake and the Emblem Tjebbe A. WESTENDORP: Phantoms of Delight: Lines Composed by William Wordsworth Claire LAMONT: Scott and Eighteenth-Century Imperialism: India and the Scottish Highlands Theo D’HAEN: “Nilotic Mud”: British Romantic Writers and the Colonies J.P. Vander MOTTEN: Robert Southey, Charles Watkin Williams Wynn and “The Miser’s Mansion” Iain HALLIDAY: “Our Love on One Side, Our Dictionary on the Other”: Leigh Hunt’s A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla (1847) Valeria TINKLER-VILLANI: Victorian Shelley: Perspectives on a Romantic Poet Allan C. CHRISTENSEN: “Ruth … Sick for Home”: The Keatsian Imagination in the Novel of Elizabeth Gaskell Cornelis W. SCHONEVELD: Arnoldus Pannevis: “Shakspere: A Critical Contribution (1863) Wil VERHOEVEN: Ecology as Requiem: Nature, Nationhood and History in Francis Parkman’s “History of the American Forest” Wim TIGGES: A Glorious Thing: The Byronic Hero as Pirate Chief Jane MALLINSON: A Modern Mode of Epiphany Peter van de KAMP: Hands Off! Joyce and the Mangan in the Mac Ton HOENSELAARS: “Out-Ranting the Enemy Leader”: Henry V and / as World War II Propaganda E.M. KNOTTENBELT: Romantic Residues? Virgil’s Aeneid “in Such a Tongue as the People Understandeth” or in a “Language Really Spoken by Men” Jeannette den TOONDER: Romantic Rebels in Three Novels of the Quiet Revolution in Québec Peter LIEBREGTS: Images of an Imaginist: Two Film Versions of Jane Austen’s Emma Notes on Contributors
