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Romantic Cruxes Reimagined
Get accessRobert Morrison is British Academy Global Professor at Bath Spa University and Queen’s National Scholar at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of The Regency Revolution (2019), which was shortlisted for the Historical Writers’ Association Crown Award for the best in nonfiction historical writing, and which was named by The Economist as one of its 2019 Books of the Year. His biography of Thomas De Quincey, The English Opium Eater (2009), was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize. Morrison edited De Quincey’s Selected Writings (2019) for Oxford University Press and Jane Austen’s Persuasion (2011) for Harvard University Press.
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Published:22 May 2024
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Abstract
Our understanding of British Romanticism has long been weighted heavily in favour of the many achievements of its poets. The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose vigorously contests this perception by revealing the many ways in which scholars are reassessing delineations of Romanticism in order to include and comprehensively evaluate the accomplishments of its nonfiction prose writers. The Handbook contains fifty-four chapters divided into eight sections, and reveals the immense variety and exuberance of British Romantic nonfiction prose. It brings together texts from the celebrated through the marginalized to the almost entirely forgotten. It assesses the interactions—often vexed, sometimes deeply congruent—between Romantic poetry and nonfiction prose, and between Romantic fiction and nonfiction. It reimagines comparisons, confronts paradoxes, considers historical and contemporary methodologies, and suggests future lines of inquiry. Throughout the focus is on cogent expression rather than abstruse observation, and on chapters that contain, not dutiful surveys, but engagingly evaluative assessments.
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