Romantics and the era of early flight / John Gilroy.
2022
PR590
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Title
Romantics and the era of early flight / John Gilroy.
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ISBN
9783031187728 (electronic bk.)
3031187725 (electronic bk.)
9783031187711
3031187717
3031187725 (electronic bk.)
9783031187711
3031187717
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-18772-8 doi
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PR590
Dewey Decimal Classification
821/.609145
Summary
This book explores the significance of flight to Romantic literature. Although the Romantic movement and the age of ballooning coincided, there has been a curious and long-time tendency to forget that flight was not impossible during this period. This study details the importance of this new technology to Romantic authors, primarily English Romantic poets. It combines accounts of the exploits and experiences of early balloonists with references to Romantic texts, using ballooning lore to illuminate a range of Romantic writings. The balloonists are seen as not just supplying these writers with a new code of metaphors, but as colleagues engaged in similarly imaginative enterprises. The book uncovers an aerial imagination shared by a large number of writers in the Romantic period that has its origins in the balloon adventures of the 1780s and following two decades. It will appeal to scholars and students of Romantic cultural history, as well as those interested in Romantic poetry and the history of early aeronautics. John Gilroy was formerly a senior lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University and panel tutor at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education, UK, where he served as a course director for many years.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Origins
3. New Prospects
4. A Federation of the World
5. Air-Mindedness
6. Later Romantics Keats and Shelley
7. Balloons, Romantics and Beyond
8. Conclusion.
2. Origins
3. New Prospects
4. A Federation of the World
5. Air-Mindedness
6. Later Romantics Keats and Shelley
7. Balloons, Romantics and Beyond
8. Conclusion.