Overview
The Regency Revisited reconfigures Romantic Studies through a neglected timeframe. It demonstrates how politics and culture of the Regency years transformed literature. By co-opting authors, the Regency provoked opposition, and brought new genres and modes of writing to the fore. Key figures are Robert Southey and Leigh Hunt: The Regency Revisited shows their pivotal roles in transforming Romanticism. Austen and Byron also feature as authors who honed their satire in response to Regency culture. Other topics include Blake and popular art, Regency science (Humphry Davy), Moore and parlour songs, Cockney writing and Pierce Egan, and Anna Barbauld and the collecting and exhibiting that was so popular an aspect of Regency London.
Full Product Details
Author: Tim Fulford ,
Michael E Sinatra ,
Michael E. Sinatra
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781137543370
ISBN 10: 113754337
Pages: 207
Publication Date: 30 January 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Series Editor comments: Here is a proposal for an essay collection which I am eager to get into the series. Since I have cobbled it together from an earlier proposal from the same authors, the form is slightly different from what you are used to from me. But I am sure you have all the information except for the cv's - all the authors are familiar from published, books, essays, reviews, editions, conferences and appearances. I have no question about their competence. Some have published with me at Palgrave or elsewhere. Andy will look familiar. Tim has done a whole issue of TWC and is senior editor for the Southey project (huge) and on the advisory board of Pickering and Chatto. Michael Sinatra edits a great on-line journal and published his first book with Macmillan when I was working with the UK. Also the collection connects with at least dozen books in the series and more from before the series, all the Byron books, Samuelian, Schoenfield, the Italian collection, and, of course, Fred Burwick's Playing to the Crowd. You may not recall that I am reluctant to do essay collections: the quality is usually uneven and the essays seem to fall away from the topic - and they are not normally peer-reviewed. Also,sometimes the authors are less accomplished, miss deadlines, or cause me grief. And I originally turned it down from just those reasons. But they have come back with a collection I can work with and authors I enjoy (so far). The authors are all mid-rank professionals, known to me, the essays relevant and significant, and the topic is timely. I am so sure we can do this that I am already thinking of a second volume to follow in two years, another title, a special session at the MLA in January 2016 to launch, perhaps a conference that summer. For a market point: OUP and CUP, Ashgate, Wiley-Blackwell, and Routledge, the publishers who do scholarly monographs in 19th century, have developed essay collections, companions, handbooks, reference guides (each are focused on an author or period, thirty+plus essays of up to 20,000 words and available individually on line. They are popular and appeal to the same the audience as full length monographs.But they are very expensive and huge. But they are the competition for both the authors I would want to publish and the people who would use our books. While I still get hopeless proposals for monographs from early career people needing credentials, I have been reluctant to take them on. They are a lot of work and I don't see them as marketable which is why, for monographs, I prefer second books. However, I think a focused collection such as The Regency Revisited, by competent and mature writers whose names are familiar in the field, who might not themselves write monographs or would at a later date (and with us) would succeed and capture some of that market for companions, handbooks, etc. I hope you agree. Given how long we have been in these preliminary negotiations, I hope we can move on it fairly soon. By the time you are ready to approve, I shall have mailing addresses and short cv's. Marilyn
This volume brings together Austen, Southey, Hunt, and others into an exciting and unusual colloquy of aesthetics and politics by historicizing a 'flashpoint' of Romantic self-fashioning in the midst of the early regency, dominated by the Regent's flamboyant and oversized presence and by reactions to him. - Mark Schoenfield, Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, USA Offering the transformative years 1811-1815 as a focal point for reconsidering the role of periodization in literary studies, this thoughtfully structured and theoretically astute collection joins a growing body of works that illuminate Romanticism's conversation with itself. - Kristin F. Samuelian, Associate Professor of English, George Mason University, USA
Author Information
Tim Fulford is Professor of English at De Montfort University, UK. His most recent publications include The Late Poetry of the Lake Poets, The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, and Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1811-38. He is currently editing The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy. Michael E. Sinatra is Associate Professor of English at the Universite? de Montre?al, Canada. He is the author of Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene, 1805–1828, one of the general editors of the Selected Writing of Leigh Hunt, and the founding editor of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net.
