Overview
- Constitutes full-length study of letters written by the poets and other writers of the period
- Posits that Romantic letters possess a vital power that expresses itself in different ways from writer to writer, and from letter to letter
- Explores the many contours and intersections we encounter in studying the period’s literary letters and to generate new insights into the culture of the period
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print (PERCP)
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About this book
Romanticism and the Letter is a collection of essays that explore various aspects of letter writing in the Romantic period of British Literature. Although the correspondence of the Romantics constitutes a major literary achievement in its own right, it has received relatively little critical attention. Essays focus on the letters of major poets, including Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley and Keats; novelists and prose writers, including Jane Austen, Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb; and lesser-known writers such as Melesina Trench and Mary Leadbeater. Moving from theories of letter writing, through the period’s diverse epistolary culture, to essays on individual writers, the collection opens new perspectives for students and scholars of the Romantic period.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“This volume actually has a great deal to offer students and academics … . Each chapter makes a welcome contribution to the growing interest in Romantic period correspondence in various forms. … After reading the range of new perspectives and innovative scholarship in Romanticism and the Letter, it is abundantly clear that this is an exciting time to be ‘rethink[ing] the value of letters’ in Romantic studies.” (Crystal Biggin, The Charles and Mary Lamb Journal, Issue 1, Summer, 2024)
“If the letters of Romantic period authors have for the most part been viewed as a supplement to the creative work, valuable for substance to the exclusion of literary qualities, Romanticism and the Letter does much to challenge this misconception while opening the way to further critical work on the epistolary culture and aesthetics of the early nineteenth century.” (Mary A. Waters, Biography, Vol. 45 (1), 2022)
“This volume is a timely contribution to larger trends in literary and media studies. … Romanticism and the Letter shows how important letter writing and epistolarity were to key Romantic authors, and opens a field for further explorations of Romantic epistolary culture.” (Rachael Scarborough King, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 34 (3), 2022)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Madeleine Callaghan is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. Liverpool University Press published her first monograph, Shelley’s Living Artistry: The Poetry and Drama of Percy Bysshe Shelley, in 2017, and her book, The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley (2019) is published by Anthem Press.
Anthony Howe is Reader in English Literature at Birmingham City University. His publications include Byron and the Forms of Thought (Liverpool, 2013) and The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013), edited with Michael O’Neill. He is currently writing a monograph about literary letter writing in the British Romantic period.
Anthony Howe is Reader in English Literature at Birmingham City University. His publications include Byron and the Forms of Thought (Liverpool, 2013) and The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013), edited with Michael O’Neill. He is currently writing a monograph about literary letter writing in the British Romantic period.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Romanticism and the Letter
Editors: Madeleine Callaghan, Anthony Howe
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29310-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29309-3Published: 30 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29312-3Published: 20 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29310-9Published: 29 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6516
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6524
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 277
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature