Satire and romanticism

Description:

"This study of the constructive and ultimately canon-forming relationship between satiric and Romantic modes of writing from 1760 to 1832 provides us with a new understanding of the historical development of Romanticism as a literary movement. Romantic poetry is conventionally seen as inward-turning, sentimental, sublime, and transcendent, whereas satire, with its public, profane, and topical rhetoric, is commonly cast in the role of generic other - as the un-Romantic mode. This book argues instead that the two modes mutually defined each other and were subtly interwoven during the Romantic period."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: English Satire,  English Verse satire,  English literature,  History and criticism,  Romanticism,  Letterkunde,  Satires,  Satire,  Engels,  Englisch,  Romantiek,  Romanticism, great britain

Places: Great Britain

Times: 19th century