Overview
- Contributes to ongoing conversations about John Clare's work while offering new perspectives and directions on Clare scholarship, in an accessible writing style
- Serves as both a useful introduction to Clare and his work for students that are new to it, and a rich resource for scholars already working in the area
- Essays look at interdisciplinary topics including ecocriticism, environmental humanities, medical humanities, and posthumanism
- Features essays from established and early career scholars
- Is comprehensive in its coverage of popular and new topics in Clare studies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Advances (PAD)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This collection gathers together an exciting new series of critical essays on the Romantic- and Victorian-period poet John Clare, which each take a rigorous approach to both persistent and emergent themes in his life and work. Designed to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Clareâs first volume of poetry, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, the scholarship collected here both affirms Clareâs importance as a major nineteenth-century poet and reveals how his verse continually provokes fresh areas of enquiry. Offering new archival, theoretical, and sometimes corrective insights into Clareâs world and work, the essays in this volume cover a multitude of topics, including Clareâs immersion in song and print culture, his formal ingenuity, his environmental and ecological imagination, his mental and physical health, and his experience of asylums. This book gives students a range of imaginative avenues into Clareâs work, and offers both new readers and experienced Clare scholars a vital set of contributions to ongoing critical debates.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Simon KĂśvesi is Professor of English Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK, editor of the John Clare Society Journal, and author of John Clare: Nature, Criticism and History (2017).
Erin Lafford is a postdoctoral research fellow in English at the University of Derby, UK. She is currently completing her first book, John Clare and the Poetry of Illness.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Palgrave Advances in John Clare Studies
Editors: Simon KÓ§vesi, Erin Lafford
Series Title: Palgrave Advances
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43374-1
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
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43373-4Published: 23 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43374-1Published: 22 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-664X
Series E-ISSN: 2947-6658
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 317
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Science in Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth-Century Literature