Overview

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is a full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British Romantic nonfiction prose. Organized into eight parts, each containing between five and nine chapters arranged alphabetically, the Handbook weaves together familiar and unfamiliar texts, events, and authors, and invites readers to draw comparisons, reimagine connections and disconnections, and confront frequently stark contradictions, within British Romantic nonfiction prose, but also in its relationship to British Romanticism more generally, and to the literary practices and cultural contexts of other periods and countries. The Handbook builds on previous scholarship in the field, considers emerging trends and evolving methodologies, and suggests future areas of study. Throughout the emphasis is on lucid expression rather than gnomic declaration, and on chapters that offer, not a dutiful survey, but evaluative assessments that keep an eye on the bigger picture yet also dwell meaningfully on specific paradoxes and the most telling examples. Taken as a whole the volume demonstrates the energy, originality, and diversity at the crux of British Romantic nonfiction prose. It vigorously challenges the traditional construction of the British Romantic movement as focused too exclusively on the accomplishments of its poets, and it reveals the many ways in which scholars of the period are steadily broadening out and opening up delineations of British Romanticism in order to encompass and thoroughly evaluate the achievements of its nonfiction prose writers.

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Author:   Robert Morrison (British Academy Global Professor, British Academy Global Professor, Bath Spa University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 7.00cm , Length: 25.50cm
ISBN:  

9780198834540

ISBN 10:   0198834543
Pages:   992
Publication Date:   07 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   To order  

Table of Contents

Robert Morrison: Introduction PART I EXPLORATION AND IDEAS OF EMPIRE 1: Jared Hickman: Africa 2: Daniel Sanjiv Roberts: Asia 3: Diego Saglia: Europe 4: Porscha Fermanis: Latin America 5: Stephen Minta: The Levant 6: Pam Perkins: North America 7: Siobhan Maria Carroll: Polar Prose 8: Deirdre Coleman: Voyaging in the Pacific PART II NATION AND REGION 9: David Stewart: Landscape 10: Matthew Sangster: Metropolitanism 11: David Higgins: Nature Writing 12: Alex Broadhead: Regionalism: England 13: Sonja Lawrenson: Regionalism: Ireland 14: Anthony Jarrells: Regionalism: Scotland 15: Jane Aaron: Regionalism: Wales PART III IMAGINATION AND INTELLECTUAL CULTURE 16: Deidre Lynch: Antiquarian Publishing 17: Clare A. Simmons: History 18: Noah Heringman: Natural Science 19: Tom Duggett: Religious Controversy 20: Regina Hewitt: Social Science PART IV COMPLEX IDENTITES 21: Ian Balfour: Autobiography 22: Mark Schoenfield and Alec Jordan: Biography 23: Barry Milligan: Confessions 24: Charles W. Mahoney: Diaries, Notebooks, and Marginalia 25: Thomas Richardson: Letters PART V AESTHETICS, LANGUAGE, AND STYLE 26: Timothy P. Campbell: Fashion 27: Quentin Bailey: Fine Arts 28: Jane Moore: Music 29: Andrew Warren: Philosophy 30: Yasmin Solomonescu: Rhetoric 31: Daniel DeWispelare: Translation PART VI POLITICS 32: Yoon Sun Lee: Political Controversy I: The Revolution Debate 33: John Gardner: Political Controversy II: Waterloo to Peterloo 34: Kathryn Chittick: Political Controversy III: The Great Reform Bill 35: Robert J. Mayhew: Political Economy 36: Michael Demson: Political Parody and Satire PART VII SOCIAL BELIEFS AND PRACTICES 37: Donelle Ruwe: Children's Literature 38: Suzanne L. Barnett: Education 39: Anya Taylor: Food and Drink 40: Peter J. Kitson: Opium 41: Joel Black: Poetic Justice, Prosaic Crime 42: James Najarian: Sexualities 43: Elizabeth Bohls: Slavery 44: John Strachan: Sports Writing 45: Lily Gurton-Wachter: War PART VIII AUTHORS, CRITICS, READERS, REVIEWERS 46: Duncan Wu: Dramatic Criticism 47: Robert Morrison: Essays 48: Andrew Keanie: Literary Criticism 49: Nicholas Mason: Literary Parody and Satire 50: Richard Cronin: Magazines 51: David Latané: Newspapers 52: Rebecca Cole Heinowitz: Prefaces, Prospectuses, Defences, and Manifestos 53: Jonathan Cutmore: Reviews 54: Will Bowers: Table Talk

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Robert Morrison is British Academy Global Professor at Bath Spa University and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of The Regency Revolution (2019), which was shortlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Crown Award for the best in non-fiction historical writing, and named by The Economist as one of its 2019 Books of the Year. His biography of Thomas De Quincey, The English Opium Eater (2009), was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize. Morrison edited De Quincey's Selected Writings (2019) for Oxford University Press, and Jane Austen's Persuasion (2011) for Harvard University Press.

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