Prose in the Age of Poets: Romanticism and Biographical Narrative from Johnson to De QuinceyUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1990 - 301 էջ In Prose in the Age of Poets, Annette Wheeler Cafarelli demonstrates that nonfictional narrative of the time was a central expression of British Romanticism. The rise of interest in the individual traditionally associated with Romantic autobiography was actually part of a wider cultural interest in biography--especially literary biography. Following Johnson's lead in the Lives of the Poets, virtually every major writer of the period experimented with sequences of short, anecdotal lives that became a characteristic Romantic vehicle for discussing theories of creativity, canon, and the place of the poet in society. The Romantics took in new directions the examination of the relation of artists' lives and works, biographers and their subjects, and texts and their readers. Romantic biography, Cafarelli contends, offers a perspective from which to reconsider conventional boundaries of genre, periodization, and the movement from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. In examining the Romantics as prose writers and biographers, Cafarelli explores the affiliations between Romantic theories of reading and writing and twentieth-century critical methodologies. She situates the biographical writings of the major poets, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron, in the context of detailed analyses of biographies by Johnson, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Scott, Southey, and other lesser-known contemporaries. Prose in the Age of Poets will interest scholars and students of Romanticism, Johnson, biography and autobiography, and narrative theory. |
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... chapter will concentrate on Johnson as a biogra- pher and Johnson's Lives as a collective sequence . As is well known , the project was a commercial venture , rather than Johnson's idea , plan , or order , although as he modestly ...
... Chapter II , note 63 . 29. " On the Spirit of Modern Biography , " The Friend No. 21 ( 25 January 1810 , rev . ed . 1818 ) , I : 356–59 , II : 285–87 . See above , Chapter I , note 5. Coleridge does not name any particular biographers ...
... Chapter 2 of the Biographia Literaria ( I : 30 , 37 , 42 ) , subtitled " Supposed irritability of men of Genius , " implicitly counters D'Israeli's position by describ- ing the irritable as literary impostors , who have " tempers ...
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Truth Is Not Here As In The Sciences | 18 |
Reading Cumulatively | 32 |
Connecting Lives and Works | 47 |
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