Overview
- Develops parallels of transmission between the Lake Poets and Gothic Victorian authors
- Contributes to the emerging area of law and literature
- Brings Wordsworth into focus as a key influence of the Gothic
Part of the book series: Palgrave Gothic (PAGO)
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Gothic Romanticism: Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Form offers a revisionist account of both Wordsworth and the politics of antiquarianism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As a historically-driven study that develops a significant critique and revision of genre- and theory-based approaches to the Gothic, it covers many key works by Wordsworth and his fellow “Lake Poets” Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. The second edition incorporates new materials that develop the argument in new directions opened up by changes in the field over the last decade. The book also provides a sustained reflection upon Romantic conservatism, including the political thought and lasting influence of Edmund Burke. New material places the book in wider and longer context of the political and historical forms seen developing in Wordsworth, and proposes Gothic Romanticism as the alternative line of cultural development to Victorian Medievalism.
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Reviews
“In this important new edition of Gothic Romanticism, Tom Duggett explores the wide and challenging field of cultural Gothicism: architecture, politics, and form. His impressively detailed account of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic is wonderfully rich and rewarding, showing how it is actively social and political and integral to the advent of Romanticism. Duggett’s focus is on William Wordsworth – usually neglected in Gothic studies but here recast as the chief architect of this emergent culture. In fluent prose and with telling rigour, Duggett develops new ways of understanding Gothicism through an approach that is refreshingly historicist and culturally ambitious, encompassing the literary uses of architecture, national and international politics, and educational theory. What arises from this strikingly original analysis is a significant re-evaluation of Wordsworth and sophisticated new models of both Gothicism and Romanticism.” (Nick Groom, Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau, Macao)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Tom Duggett is Senior Associate Professor of Literature at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), China, and honorary fellow of the University of Liverpool, UK. He has published widely in journals including Review of English Studies, Romanticism and The Wordsworth Circle, and recently produced a two-volume scholarly edition of Robert Southey’s historical dialogue, Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society (2018). He serves as an Advisory Editor of the journal Romanticism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gothic Romanticism
Book Subtitle: Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Form
Authors: Tom Duggett
Series Title: Palgrave Gothic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96832-8
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 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96831-1Published: 04 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96834-2Published: 05 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96832-8Published: 03 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-6214
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6222
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXX, 307
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, European Literature, Literary History, Poetry and Poetics, Gothic Studies