Satire and Romanticism

by Jones, Steven E.

• ISBN13: 9780312228798
• ISBN10: 0312228791
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-04-22
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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."

Author Biography

Steven E. Jones is Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction Satire and the Making of the Romantic	1	(14)
Representing Rustics: Satire, Countersatire, and Emergent Romanticism	15	(32)
``Supernatural, or at Least Romantic'': The Ancient Mariner and Parody	47	(30)
Satiric Performance in The Black Dwarf	77	(34)
Della Crusca Redivivus: The Revenge of the Satiric Victims	111	(28)
Byron's Satiric ``Blues'': Salon Culture and the Literary Marketplace	139	(30)
Turning What Was Once Burlesque into Romantic: Byron's Pantomimic Satire	169	(30)
The Wheat from the Chaff: Ebenezer Elliott and the Canon	199	(22)
Notes	221	(26)
Bibliography	247	(10)
Index	257

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