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Andrew Stauffer is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Byron: A Life in Ten Letters (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library (2021), which won the Marilyn Gaull Award for scholarship in Romanticism. His work has been funded by the ACLS, the NEH, and the Mellon Foundation.

Klappentext

How did British literature develop in the wake of the radical 1790s and during the years of war, reaction, and uncertain renewal that constituted the nineteenth century's first decade? The essays in this volume examine the literary forms and cultural formations that emerged during this paradoxical era of aftermath and new beginnings. They reexamine a period within the Romantic period, and within the larger context of the nineteenth century, exploring the historical self-consciousness of this post-revolutionary era and highlighting the emergence of ideas of temporality and historicity that lead us to reconsider the past as comprised of decadal units, of centuries, and of things like 'the age of revolutions' and the spirits that animate them. Using fresh approaches and methodologies, the essays in this book examine the beginnings of the nineteenth century and its literature according to the critical, theoretical, and archival possibilities of the twenty-first.

Inhalt

List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Andrew Stauffer; A. Revolution and War Time: 1. 'Knowledge, liberality and temperate firmness:' the politics of abeyance in a time of war Jon Mee; 2. Abolitionist time: literature and material culture circa 1807 Mariam Wassif; 3. Burning to rise: ruins, renovation and anticolonialism in Haiti Halina Adams; 4. 'A revolution is inevitable': Robert Southey's orientalist regeneration Joey S. Kim; B. Poetry and its Contexts: 5. The young century: juvenile poets, Henry Kirke White, and literary remains Laurie Langbauer; 6. Regulating poetry in the 1800s Matthew Sangster; 7. Rural poetry, capitalist agriculture and the food price crisis of the 1800s Jeremy Davies; 8. 'Living sounds': acoustic poetics at the turn of the nineteenth century Elizabeth Weybright; C. Narratives and Novels: 9. Scientific education in the new century: discipline, dialogue, and lecture Mary Fairclough; 10. Not the marrying kind Deidre Lynch; 11. Useful fictions: morality and empire in the writings of Maria Edgeworth Claire Connolly; D. Media Theory: 12. William Blake and the time-criticality of 1804: a media archaeology of Milton: a poem Roger Whitson; 13. X marks the spot: lyrical ballads at the bookends Omar Miranda; 14. Rapid communication, living stones, and the ground beneath our feet: temporality at the turn of the nineteenth century Jonathan Sachs.