Reading the Romantic Ridiculous

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-62203-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 415 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work that decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorises the ridiculous as an alternative affect to the sublime, privileging collective laughter above solitude and selfishness and reflecting on these ideals through the practice of joint authorship. Tracing the history of the ridiculous through Romantic and post-Romantic debates about sublimity, from the rediscovery of Longinus and the aesthetic theories of Burke and Kant to contemporary queer and postcolonial theory interested in silliness, lowness, and vulnerability, Reading the Romantic Ridiculous explores Romanticism's surprising commitments to ridiculousness in canonical material by writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, and Charles Lamb as well as lesser-known material from joke books to children's literature. In theory and practice, this duograph also considers the legacies of Romanticism – and ridiculousness – today, analysing their influence on independent film, sitcoms, and young adult fiction, as well as their place in higher education now.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

McInnes, Andrew

Dashwood, Rita J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Ridiculous Definitions

Chapter 1 - The Trouble with Nature: Romanticism from Below

Chapter 2 - In Defence of Silliness: Ridiculous Society from Austen to Ghosts

Chapter 3 - Even If It Hurts: Vulnerable Readings in Young Adult Fiction

Conclusion: Ridiculous Displays

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew McInnes is Reader in Romanticisms and Co-Director of EHU Nineteen: Research Centre in Nineteenth-Century Studies at Edge Hill University, UK.

Rita J. Dashwood is a literary scholar and historian of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her research focuses on women, property and cultural heritage, and the Romantic period’s legacies in popular culture. She is a Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, Belgium, where she is working on her third book, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780–1900.