| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) |
| Series |
Interventions : rethinking the nineteenth century |
| Contents |
Introduction : counterfactual Romanticism / Damian Walford Davies -- 'The object as in itself it really is not' : counterfactual Romanticism and the aesthetics of contingency / Anne C. McCarthy -- Door-to-door and across-the-counter factuals : history as fashion, furniture, fraud, forgery, folklore and fiction in the Romantic onset of modernity / Gary Kelly -- The possibilists : Romantic-era literary forgery and British alternative pasts / Mary-Ann Constantine -- Sophia Lee's The recess and the epistemology of the counterfactual / Tilottama Rajan -- Lord Byron reads The prelude / Kenneth R. Johnston -- Counterfactual obstetrics : Mary Wollstonecraft's Frankenstein / Damian Walford Davies -- John Thelwall : a counterfactual ghost story / Judith Thompson -- Counterfactual speculations in late Romanticism : Scott, Banim, Galt and Mitford / Angela Esterhammer -- Piratical counterfactual, piratical counterfictional : from Misson to melodrama / Manushag N. Powell -- Romanticism and the (counterfactual) Chinese awakening / Peter J. Kitson -- Counterfactual and future Romanticisms : the academy and the canon / Edward Larrissy |
| Summary |
Extends counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 10, 2019) |
| Subject |
Romanticism -- History and criticism
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Romanticism -- Philosophy
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Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
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Literature, Modern
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Romanticism
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davies, Damian Walford, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781526107077 |
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1526107074 |
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9781526108012 |
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1526108011 |
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