Satire and Romanticism

By Steven E. Jones and Steven E. Jones

Book Overview

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. By rearranging reputations, changing aesthetic assumptions, and re-distributing cultural capital, the interaction of satiric and Romantic modes helped make possible the Victorian and modern construction of "English Romanticism."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312228791
• ISBN13: 9780312228798
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 6.0"