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The Lost Romantics

Forgotten Poets, Neglected Works and One-Hit Wonders

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Sheds subversively new light on Romanticism and its canon of big six white male Romantics

  • Identifies different strata of oblivion

  • Shows how densely the net of contacts and rivalries was woven around the ostensibly monolithic stars of the Romantic age

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. (Re-)Discoveries from the Realm of Lostness in the Romantic Age

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
    2. Mary Blachford Tighe: ‘No Haunting Dream’

      • Anthony John Harding
      Pages 59-74
    3. Catching Up with Walking Stewart

      • Tom Mole
      Pages 111-129
  4. Interludes of Semi-Lostness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
    2. Clare’s Late Styles

      • Andrew Hodgson
      Pages 151-168
  5. One-Hit Wonders in Romantic Celebrity Culture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
    2. Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Abortion

      • Richard C. Sha
      Pages 203-223
    3. Genre and Gender Issues in Mary Shelley’s Narrative

      • Lilla Maria Crisafulli
      Pages 225-246
  6. “Attendant Lords”: Marginalised Prufrockian Romantics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247

About this book

This book features a collection of essays, shedding subversively new light on Romanticism and its canon of big-six, white, male Romantics by focusing on marginalised, forgotten and lost writers and their long-neglected works. 

Probing the realms of literary and cultural lostness, this book identifies different strata of oblivion and shows how densely the net of contacts and rivalries was woven around the ostensibly monolithic stars of the Romantic age. It reveals how the lost poets inspired the production of anthologised poetry, that they served as indispensable muses, sidekicks and interlocutors of the big six and that their relevance for the literary scene has been continuously underrated. This is also surprisingly true for some creators of famous one-hit wonders (Frankenstein, The Vampyre) who were suddenly rocketed to fame or notoriety, but could not help seeing their other works of fiction turning into abortive flops.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Vechta, Vechta, Germany

    Norbert Lennartz

About the editor

Norbert Lennartz is Professor of English Literature at the University of Vechta (Germany). He has published widely on Romanticism, in particular on Byron, and on the paragons of the Victorian Age (Dickens Hardy, Wilde). He has just completed a full-length study on literary representations of tears, bodily fluids and porous bodies

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Lost Romantics

  • Book Subtitle: Forgotten Poets, Neglected Works and One-Hit Wonders

  • Editors: Norbert Lennartz

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35546-3

  • 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: 978-3-030-35545-6Published: 14 January 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35548-7Published: 15 January 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35546-3Published: 13 January 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 333

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature

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eBook USD 59.99
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 79.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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