I'm happy to say that Palgrave is offering subscribers to this list a discount of 30% on my new book, Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries: the Dialect of the Tribe. Details below:
About the book:
How does Romantic poetry read if seen as the product of a coterie of writers, editors, publishers, and critics rather than original lyrics composed by individual geniuses? Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries explores Romanticism as a discourse characterized by tropes and forms that were jointly produced by literary circles in self-conscious opposition to prevailing social and political values and in deliberate differentiation from the normal practices of contemporary print culture. Considering writing communities such as the Southey/Coleridge circle, the Bloomfield circle, and the Clare circle, Tim Fulford reveals the context in which the composition, publishing and reading of blank-verse effusions, magazine essays, and long-form notebook verse, among others, took place.
Contents:
PART I: "A SECT OF POETS": THE DIALECT OF FRIENDSHIP IN SOUTHEY, COLERIDGE, AND THEIR CIRCLES
1. The Politicization of Allusion in Early Romanticism: Mary Robinson and the Bristol Poets
2. Brothers in Lore: Fraternity and Priority in Thalaba, "Christabel," "Kubla Khan"
3. Signifying Nothing: Coleridge's Visions of 1816 - Anti-Allusion and the Poetic Fragment
4. Positioning The Missionary: Poetic Circles and the Development of Colonial Romance
PART II: THE "RURAL TRIBE": LABORING CLASS POETS AND THE TRADITION
5. The Production of a Poet: Robert Bloomfield, his Patrons, and his Publishers
6. Iamb yet what Iamb: Allusion and Delusion in John Clare's Asylum Poems
PART III: THE LINGO OF LONDONERS: THE "COCKNEY SCHOOL"
7. Romanticism Lite: Talking, Walking and Name Dropping in the Cockney Essay
8. Allusions of Grandeur: Prophetic Authority and the Romantic City
Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
Hardback 9781137533968
Aug 2015 £55.00
$90.00 £38.50
$63.00
"Fulford's astonishing command of the diverse methods, interests, and materials dispersed throughout the field of Romantic studies today and of the critical practices of the past thirty years gives this study title to its own title: it is itself a grammar, lexicon, and demonstration of the dialect of our tribe - the scholars, critics, and historians of things and themes Romantic."
- Marjorie Levinson, F.L. Huetwell Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, USA
"In Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries Tim Fulford weaves a series of rich literary networks, or coteries. Arguing that coteries create collective poetic projects, he revisits literary 'allusion', demonstrating that it knits together such projects as one of the means by which authors interact. Such an approach reveals the development of poetic language and subject matter as a communal project, sometimes across generations—Wordsworth's plain diction in conversation with Cowper, for instance. By focusing on how these coteries were constituted, this book makes a series of important contributions to our understanding of Romantic authorship."
- Alan Vardy, Professor of English, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
"Ranging from the Lake Poets to the Cockneys and beyond, Tim Fulford makes a major contribution to our understanding of romantic sociality and the role of circles in literary production. His encyclopedic erudition is brought to bear not only upon the usual suspects such as Wordsworth or Hunt, but also Blooomfield and Robinson, country poets and city prophets. Particularly striking is his analysis of coterie language, as he shows how the poetry of the various groups he examines creates through allusion a kind of collective dialect."
- Jeffrey N. Cox, Professor of English, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Palgrave Macmillan is delighted to be able to offer you a 30% discount on this title when ordering directly from the publisher. Just quote PM15THIRTY when ordering the book from Palgrave Macmillan to claim your discount.
You can order from the Palgrave website here: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?K=9781137533968. You can also email your order, quoting the code, to [log in to unmask] This code is valid until 30th September 2015. (Terms and conditions available here: www.palgrave.com/page/Palgrave-discount-codes-terms-and-conditions/).
Tim Fulford
Dept of English
De Montfort University
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