Reading the Romantic Ridiculous

Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous, building on recent work which decentres the myth of the solitary genius.

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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.

Klappentext

Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous, building on recent work which decentres the myth of the solitary genius.

Inhalt

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

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