TY - BOOK AU - Magnuson,Paul TI - Reading Public Romanticism T2 - Princeton Legacy Library SN - 9780691609041 AV - PR590 U1 - 821 21 PY - 2014///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Authors and readers KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Great Britain KW - English poetry KW - History and criticism KW - 18th century KW - Literary form KW - Literature and society KW - Public opinion in literature KW - Public opinion KW - Romanticism KW - Speech acts (Linguistics) KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations and Key Words --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER One. The Corresponding Society: The Public Discourse --; CHAPTER Two. The Corresponding Society: Reading the Correspondence --; CHAPTER Three. The Politics of "Frost at Midnight" --; CHAPTER Four. The Mariner's Extravagance and the Tempests of Lyrical Ballads --; CHAPTER Five. The Dedication of Don Juan --; CHAPTER Six. Keats's "Leaf-Fringed Legend" --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Reading Public Romanticism is a significant new example of the linking of esthetics and historical criticism. Here Paul Magnuson locates Romantic poetry within a public discourse that combines politics and esthetics, nationalism and domesticity, sexuality and morality, law and legitimacy. Building on his well-regarded previous work, Magnuson practices a methodology of close historical reading by identifying precise versions of poems, reading their rhetoric of allusion and "ation in the contexts of their original publication, and describing their public genres, such as the letter. He studies the author's public signature or motto, the forms and significance of address used in poems, and the resonances of poetic language and tropes in the public debates.According to Magnuson, "reading locations" means reading the writing that surrounds a poem, the "paratext" or "frame" of the esthetic boundary. In their particular locations in the public discourse, romantic poems are illocutionary speech acts that take a stand on public issues and legitimate their authors both as public characters and as writers. He traces the public significance of canonical poems commonly considered as lyrics with little explicit social or political commentary, including Wordsworth's "Immortality Ode"; Coleridge's "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," "Frost at Midnight," and "The Ancient Mariner"; and Keats's "On a Grecian Urn." He also positions Byron's Dedication to Don Juan in the debates over Southey's laureateship and claims for poetic authority and legitimacy. Reading Public Romanticism is a thoughtful and revealing work.Originally published in 1998.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400864799 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400864799 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400864799.jpg ER -