Presences That Disturb : Models of Romantic Identity in the Literature and Culture of the 1790s

Name: Presences That Disturb
Brand: University of Wales Press
SKU: 9780708317389
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ISBN: 9780708317389

by Damian Walford Davies

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0708317383

ISBN-13 9780708317389

Publisher University of Wales Press

Imprint University of Wales Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 16th, 2002

Print length 384 Pages

Weight 726 grams

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800

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This work looks at the impact of five "archetypal" figures on literature and culture of the 1790s in Britain. The figures covered are: Tewdrig, the hermit-king; Vortigen, the Dark-Age traitor, the Polish General Kosciusko; Iolo Morganwg; and the Jacobin demagogue John Thelwall.

Presences that Disturb examines the historical and cultural contexts that determined the Romantic self in a revolutionary decade. It explores the ways in which canonical writers such as Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats, and significant political figures such as John Thelwall, imaginatively identified with certain emblematic presences - from the Dark Age hermit-king Tewdrig to the Polish patriot-General Kosciusko and the Welsh jacobin bard Edward Williams - as instructive models and haunting second selves. Addressing recent new historicist critiques, this analysis of Romantic identity discusses both the subtle ways in which these crucial but neglected presences inhabit literary texts and their broader cultural impact.

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