Counterfactual Romanticism /
Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Counterfactual Romanticism reveals the ways in which the shapes of Romanticism are conditioned by that which did not come to pass. Exploring various modali...
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| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Counterfactual Romanticism / Damian Walford Davies
- 1. "The object as in itself it really is not" : counterfactual Romanticism and the aesthetics of contingency / Anne C. McCarthy
- 2. Door-to-door and across-the-counter factualas : history as fashion, furniture, fraud, forgery, folklore and fiction in the Romantic onset of modernity / Gary Kelly
- 3. The possibilists : Romantic-era literary forgery and British alternative pasts / Mary-Ann Constantine
- 4. Sophia Lee's "The Recess" and the epistemology of the counterfactual / Tilottama Rajan
- 5. Lord Byron reads "The Prelude" / Kenneth R. Johnston
- 6. Counterfactual obstetrics : Mary Wollstonecraft's "Frankenstein" / Damian Walford Davies
- 7. John Thelwall : a counterfactual ghost story / Judith Thompson
- 8. Counterfactual speculations in late Romanticism : Scott, Banim, Galt and Mitford / Angela Esterhammer
- 9. Piratical counterfactual, piratical counterfictional : from Misson to melodrama / Manushag N. Powell
- 10. Romanticism and the (counterfactual) Chinese awakening / Peter J. Kitson
- 11. Counterfactual and future Romanticisms : the academy and the canon / Edward Larrissy.