Romantic Verse Narrative: The History of a Genre

Hermann Fischer; Sue Bollans

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511627521

Hermann Fischer's lively and original 1991 study of Romantic verse narrative traces in comprehensive detail the origins and development of this poetic form in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It brings together the longer epic verse tales of Scott, Byron and Southey and the more lyrical forms of Romantic narrative poetry, thus presenting familiar poems such as Shelley's 'Alastor' and Keats's 'The Eve of St Agnes' in the revealing but neglected context of the genre and its history. Professor Fischer addresses the question of genre from a viewpoint that is both theoretical and historical, and his study also proves illuminating in many areas of Romantic literature, covering issues such as the role of the medieval revival and the decline of neoclassicism, the relative importance of popular and more literary sources, and questions of changing taste and the reading public. This translation, extensively revised and updated, makes Hermann Fischer's acclaimed study available for the first time in English.

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Frontmatter
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Preface
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List of abbreviations
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Dedication
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Introduction
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Part I - The genre and it historical context
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1 - Genre definitions
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2 - The initial situation
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Part II - The history of the romantic tale in verse: poets, works, critics and the public
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3 - Early forms
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4 - The establishment of the genre by Sir Walter Scott, its fashionable period, and limitatins by other poets
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5 - ‘The postscript of the Augustans’ and the opposite of the romance
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6 - Ramification and dissolution
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7 - The subsequent fate of the genre
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-x

List of abbreviations
pp xi-xi

Dedication
pp xii-xii

Introduction
pp 1-8

Part I - The genre and it historical context
pp 9-10

1 - Genre definitions
pp 11-35

2 - The initial situation
pp 36-54

Part II - The history of the romantic tale in verse: poets, works, critics and the public
pp 55-56

3 - Early forms
pp 57-85

4 - The establishment of the genre by Sir Walter Scott, its fashionable period, and limitatins by other poets
pp 86-119

5 - ‘The postscript of the Augustans’ and the opposite of the romance
pp 120-145

6 - Ramification and dissolution
pp 146-198

7 - The subsequent fate of the genre
pp 199-220

Conclusion
pp 221-227

Notes
pp 228-283

Bibliography
pp 284-289

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