Satire and Romanticism

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Satire and the Making of the Romantic

   • Steven E. Jones

   Pages 1-14

3. Representing Rustics: Satire, Countersatire, and Emergent Romanticism

   • Steven E. Jones

   Pages 15-45

4. “Supernatural, or at Least Romantic”: The Ancient Mariner and Parody

   • Steven E. Jones

   Pages 47-75

5. Satiric Performance in The Black Dwarf

   • Steven E. Jones

   Pages 77-110

6. Della Crusca Redivivus: The Revenge of the Satiric Victims

   • Steven E. Jones

   Pages 111-138

7. Byron’s Satiric “Blues”: Salon Culture and the Literary Marketplace

   • Steven E. Jones

   Pages 139-168

8. Turning What Was Once Burlesque into Romantic: Byron’s Pantomimic Satire

   • Steven E. Jones

   Pages 169-197

9. The Wheat from the Chaff: Ebenezer Elliott and the Canon

   • Steven E. Jones

   Pages 199-220

10. Back Matter

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This remarkable study of the constructive and ultimately canon-forming relationship between satiric and Romantic modes of writing from 1760 to 1832 provides us with a new understanding of the historical development of Romanticism as a literary movement. Romantic poetry is conventionally seen as inward-turning, sentimental, sublime, and transcendent, whereas satire, with its public, profane, and topical rhetoric, is commonly cast in the role of generic other as the un-Romantic mode. This book argues instead that the two modes mutually defined each other and were subtly interwoven during the Romantic period. By rearranging reputations, changing aesthetic assumptions, and re-distributing cultural capital, the interaction of satiric and Romantic modes helped make possible the Victorian and modern construction of 'English Romanticism'.

• argue
• construction
• culture
• English
• English Romanticism
• interaction
• parody
• performance
• rhetoric
• Romanticism
• salon culture
• satire
• understanding
• Victorian era
• writing
• British and Irish Literature

STEVEN E. JONES is Associate Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago.

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