TY  - GEN
T1  - Prose in the age of poets : romanticism and biographical narrative from Johnson to De Quincey
A1  - Cafarelli, Annette Wheeler
LA  - English
PP  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
YR  - 1990
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn643923627
AB  - In Prose in the Age of Poets, Annette Wheeler Cafarelli demonstrates that nonfictional narrative of the time was a central expression of British Romanticism. The rise of interest in the individual traditionally associated with Romantic autobiography was actually part of a wider cultural interest in biography--especially literary biography. Following Johnson's lead in the Lives of the Poets, virtually every major writer of the period experimented with sequences of short, anecdotal lives that became a characteristic Romantic vehicle for discussing theories of creativity, canon, and the place of the poet in society. The Romantics took in new directions the examination of the relation of artists' lives and works, biographers and their subjects, and texts and their readers. Romantic biography, Cafarelli contends, offers a perspective from which to reconsider conventional boundaries of genre, periodization, and the movement from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. In examining the Romantics as prose writers and biographers, Cafarelli explores the affiliations between Romantic theories of reading and writing and twentieth-century critical methodologies. She situates the biographical writings of the major poets, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron, in the context of detailed analyses of biographies by Johnson, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Scott, Southey, and other lesser-known contemporaries. Prose in the Age of Poets will interest scholars and students of Romanticism, Johnson, biography and autobiography, and narrative theory.
OP  - 301
CN  - PR778.B56 C34 1990
SN  - 9781512801262
SN  - 1512801267
SN  - 0812281985
SN  - 9780812281989
KW  - Johnson, Samuel, : 1709-1784. : Lives of the English poets.
KW  - Hazlitt, William, : 1778-1830. : Spirit of the age.
KW  - De Quincey, Thomas, : 1785-1859. : Literary reminiscences.
KW  - Lives of the English poets (Johnson, Samuel)
KW  - English prose literature : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - English prose literature : 18th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Authors, English : Biography : History and criticism.
KW  - Biography as a literary form.
KW  - Romanticism : Great Britain.
KW  - Biography.
KW  - Biographies as Topic.
KW  - Prose anglaise : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Prose anglaise : 18e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Biographie (Genre littéraire)
KW  - Romantisme : Grande-Bretagne.
KW  - Biographies.
KW  - biographies (literary genre)
KW  - biography (general genre)
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Literary.
KW  - Authors, English : Biography
KW  - Biography as a literary form
KW  - English prose literature
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biografie
KW  - Großbritannien
KW  - Prosa
KW  - Geschichte (1780-1860)
KW  - Geschichte (1700-1900)
KW  - Geschichte (1779-1859)
KW  - Englisch.
KW  - 1700-1899
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -