@article{436088,
      recid = {436088},
      author = {Rajan, Tilottama.},
      title = {Romantic narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft  /},
      publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press,},
      address = {Baltimore :},
      pages = {xxvii, 282 p. ;},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {Often identified with its lyric poetry, Romanticism has  come to be dismissed by historicists as an ineffectual  idealism. By focusing on Romantic narrative, noted humanist  Tilottama Rajan takes issue with this identification, as  well as with the equation of narrative itself with the  governmental apparatus of the Novel. Exploring the role of  narrativity in the works of Romantic writers, Rajan also  reflects on larger disciplinary issues such as the role of  poetry versus prose in an emergent modernity and the place  of Romanticism itself in a Victorianized nineteenth  century.   While engaging both genres, Romantic Narrative  responds to the current critical shift from poetry to prose  by concentrating, paradoxically, on a poetics of narrative  in Romantic prose fiction. Rajan argues that poiesis, as a  mode of thinking, is Romanticism's legacy to an age of  prose. She elucidates this thesis through careful readings  of Shelley's Alastor and his Gothic novels, Godwin's Caleb  Williams and St. Leon, Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney, and  Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman.   Rajan, winner of  the Keats-Shelley Association's Distinguished Lifetime  Award and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is one  of Romanticism's leading scholars. Effective, articulate,  and readable, Romantic Narrative will appeal to scholars in  both nineteenth-century studies and narrative theory.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436088},
}