Overview
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)
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Introduction
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(Re-)Discoveries from the Realm of Lostness in the Romantic Age
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Interludes of Semi-Lostness
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One-Hit Wonders in Romantic Celebrity Culture
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“Attendant Lords”: Marginalised Prufrockian Romantics
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About this book
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.
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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