05838nam a22002657a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801030007608200170017910000210019624501120021726000530032930000480038236500090043050532700043952015140370965000230522365000280524665000520527465000450532665000430537165000730541465000650548770000200555220190909151427.0190625b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780226101095  a:Atlantic Publishers & Distributorsb:7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi  c:1097244d:17/06/19  a820.9358 CHA  a Chandler, James  aEngland in 1819 b: the politics of literary culture and the case of romantic historicismc/ James Chandler  aChicago b: University of Chicago Press, c1998.  axxii, 584 pagesb : illustrations c; 24 cm  b2712  apt. 1. The "historical situation" of romanticism: sec. 1. Writing historicism, then and now: ch. 1. Specificity after structuralism : dating the "return to history: Exemplifying nominalism. Specifying history. Dating cultures. From annalization to annualization. The "peculiar conditions" of British romanticism. Lévi-Strauss, St. Simon, and the beginning of history ; ch. 2. An art of the state : historicism and the measures of uneven development: Codifying the order of history. Returning to romantic historicism. The age of the spirit of the age. Anna Barbauld and the measures of history. The structural transformation of the public state. Uneven development. Literary studies and "historical epistemology". Translating cultures. "La vie privée of our forefathers" --
sec. 2. Romanticism in the representative state: ch. 3. Representing culture, romanticizing contradiction : the politics of literary exemplarity: Keywords : culture, representation, anecdote. The romantic type. Exemplary histories and "representative men" : Hazlitt's prismatic gallery. Shelley's representative legislature. Historicism, contradiction, and casuistry ; ch. 4. Altering the case : the invention of the historical situation: The form of the case. Balancing acts : Old mortality and the wars of conscience. "A specimen of all causes" : the case of Redgauntlet. The representative state and the transformation of casuistry. The casuistry of the general will. Some qualifications. The Continental system. Bretagne en 1799, history in 1988 : the historical novel redivivus --
pt. 2. Reading England in 1819: Interchapter: The scene of reading in 1819 : literature, politics, and Moore. sec. 1. Cases, causes, casuistries: ch. 5. Reopening the case of Scott: The theory of sentiment and the case of The heart. Caption and conversation : SCott's explanatory words. Making a scene in The bride of Lammermoor. Scott and sign value. Making a scene for The bride of Lammermoor. Laws of Scotland, laws of syntax ; ch. 6. Byron's causes : the moral mechanics of Don Juan: The "common cause" of Robert Southey. Wordsworthian whys and wherefores. "Man fell with apples" : the moral mechanics of Don Juan. Byron's Waverley novel. Catherine and Castlereagh : worst cases, worst causes ; ch. 7. An "1819 temper" : Keats and the history of psyche: Smokeability. Rehabilitating Psyche. The politics of "soul-making". The week when Keats wrote To autumn. Emperor and clown : Keats's literary imperilism ; ch. 8. Concerning the influence of America on the mind : Western settlements, "English writers," and the case of U.S. culture: Washington Irving and the "English writers on America". The English Columbus. Anxieties of exodus. Godwinian theory in the newest of new worlds. The "mystery of generation". Keats and "the humanity of the United States". America in 1819 : poetry, unity, representation --
sec. 2. Sublime casuistry: ch. 9. The case of "the case of Shelley". A defense of Shelley. The play's the thing : casuistry in The Cenci. Requisites of historical judgment. A second look at Peter Bell the Third ; ch. 10. History's lyre : the "west wind" and the poet's work: Lyricism and historicism. A revolution in the turns of season. The elementary case. The absent cause. Fallen leaves  a1819 was the annus mirabilis for many British Romantic writers, and the annus terribilis for demonstrators protesting the state of parliamentary representation. In 1819 Keats wrote what many consider his greatest poetry. This was the year of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, The Cenci, and Ode to the West Wind. Wordsworth published his most widely reviewed work, Peter Bell, and the craze for Walter Scott's historical novels reached its zenith. Many of these writings explicitly engaged with the politics of representation in 1819, especially the great movement for reform that was fueled by threats of mass emigration to America and came to a head that August with an unprovoked attack on unarmed men, women, and children in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, a massacre that journalists dubbed "Peterloo." But the year of Peterloo in British history is notable for more than just the volume, value, and topicality of its literature. Much of the writing from 1819, argues James Chandler, was acutely aware not only of its place in history, but also of its place as history - a realization of a literary "spirit of the age" that resonates strongly with the current "return to history" in literary studies. Chandler explores the ties between Romantic and contemporary historicism, such as the shared tendency to seize a single dated event as both important on its own and as a "case" testing general principles. To animate these issues, Chandler offers a series of cases of his own built around key texts from 1819.  aEnglish literature  aOld English literatures  aEnglish & Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures  aEngland -- Civilization -- 19th century.  aGreat Britain -- History -- 1789-1820.  aPolitics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.  aEnglish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.  aChandler, James