The Regency Revisited

Tim Fulford, Michael E Sinatra, Tim Fulford, Michael E Sinatra

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781137543370
• eBook ISBN: 9781137504494
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

The Regency Revisited reconfigures Romantic Studies through a neglected timeframe. It demonstrates how politics and culture of the Regency years transformed literature. By co-opting authors, the Regency provoked opposition, and brought new genres and modes of writing to the fore. Key figures are Robert Southey and Leigh Hunt: The Regency Revisited shows their pivotal roles in transforming Romanticism. Austen and Byron also feature as authors who honed their satire in response to Regency culture. Other topics include Blake and popular art, Regency science (Humphry Davy), Moore and parlour songs, Cockney writing and Pierce Egan, and Anna Barbauld and the collecting and exhibiting that was so popular an aspect of Regency London.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Glimmer of Futurity, 1811–1815
• 3 Percy Shelley, Jane Austen, and Felix Britannica
• 4 Renewing the Estate: Mansfield Park and the Berkeley Peerage Affair
• 5 William Blake and the Decorative Arts
• 6 The State of The Examiner’s World in 1813
• 7 “Senator and Actors”: Leigh Hunt’s Theatrical Criticism and the Regency
• 8 1813: The Year of the Laureate
• 9 Of Precious Loobies, Bag Wigs, and Posthumous Orators: Leigh Hunt’s “Resurrection” of Robert Southey
• 10 The Volcanic Humphry Davy
• 11 Lord Byron’s Greek Air: Rediscovering a Regency Lyric
• 12 Collecting, Cultural Memory, and the Regency Museum
• 13 De-radicalizing Popular Literature: From William Hone to Pierce Egan
• Notes on Contributors
• Index