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Author: Seth T. Reno (Auburn University at Montgomery (United States))
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Imprint: Liverpool University Press
Volume: 7
ISBN: 9781786940834
ISBN 10: 1786940833
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 27 March 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'Throughout Amorous Aesthetics, Reno resists the insights of the New Historicism, which subordinated aesthetics and affect to cultural context and ideology. Focusing on 1788 to 1805 (from The Evening Walk to The Prelude), his reading of the former poem is masterful, for it highlights the tension between sublimity (that vertical, fearsome force of nature) and sentimentality (a warmer and more horizontalizing form of affect).' Colin Carman, European Romantic Review 'Amorous Aesthetics is an important contribution to the field of Romantic studies and a successful first book...the book is significant for tracking an indisputably major concept, love, across many decades of Romantic writing and a significant number of canonical poets, which, I think, could make the book foundational for further research in this area.' David Sigler, The Review of English Studies
'Amorous Aesthetics is an important contribution to the field of Romantic studies and a successful first book...the book is significant for tracking an indisputably major concept, love, across many decades of Romantic writing and a significant number of canonical poets, which, I think, could make the book foundational for further research in this area.' David Sigler, The Review of English Studies 'Throughout Amorous Aesthetics, Reno resists the insights of the New Historicism, which subordinated aesthetics and affect to cultural context and ideology. Focusing on 1788 to 1805 (from The Evening Walk to The Prelude), his reading of the former poem is masterful, for it highlights the tension between sublimity (that vertical, fearsome force of nature) and sentimentality (a warmer and more horizontalizing form of affect).' Colin Carman, European Romantic Review
Reviews 'Amorous Aesthetics is an important contribution to the field of Romantic studies and a successful first book...the book is significant for tracking an indisputably major concept, love, across many decades of Romantic writing and a significant number of canonical poets, which, I think, could make the book foundational for further research in this area.' David Sigler, The Review of English Studies
Author Information
Seth T. Reno is Distinguished Research Associate Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery. He is author of Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750–1884 (Palgrave, 2020), editor of The Anthropocene: Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities (Routledge, 2021) and Romanticism and Affect Studies (Romantic Circles Praxis Series, 2018), and co-editor (with Lisa Ottum) of Wordsworth and the Green Romantics: Affect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century (University of New Hampshire Press, 2016).
