Coleridge, Keats and Shelley: Contemporary Critical Essays

by Peter Kitson

Overview

This volume offers a comprehensive selection of contemporary criticism of three great Romantic poets, ranging from traditional literary scholarship through historicist, feminist, structuralist and poststructuralist readings. Kitson's substantial introduction situates the essays in the general context of the development of critical writing about Romanticism over the last four decades and the volume provides an excellent overview of the current, vibrant state of Romantic studies and some of the exciting ways in which contemporary criticism is developing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333608906
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/24/1996
Series:	New Casebooks , #144
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	241
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

PETER J KITSON is Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Bangor.
PETER J KITSON is Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Bangor.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
General Editors' Preface
Introduction; P.J.Kitson
'Kubla Khan' and Eighteenth Century Aesthetic Theories; K.M.Wheeler
Voice and Ventriloquy in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'; S.Eilenberg
Literary Gentlemen and Lovely Ladies: The Debate on the Character of Christabel; K.Swann
Feminizing Keats; S.J.Wolfson
Keats's Lisping Sedition; N.Roe
Keats in the Museum: Between Aesthetics and History, 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'; A.W.Phinney
'To Autumn'; A.Bennett
Shelley's 'Mont Blanc': What the Mountain Said; F.Ferguson
'Mechanism of a Kind yet Unattempted': The Dramatic Action of Prometheus Unbound; K.Everest
Adonais and the Death of Poetry; W.A.Ulmer
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.