新浪漫主义研究New Romanticism Studies.ppt

The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of British Romantic Poetry Canons New Romanticism Studies Key words Deconstruction Reconstruction Romantic poetry cannons Big Six: William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) William Blake (1757-1827) John Keats (1795-1821) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) DWEM Dead White European Man Research Backdrop New Romanticism Old Romanticism The modern canonization of the female poetry New Romanticism Old Romanticism David Simpson: “Romanticism” (in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, Vol.4, 2009)： Old romanticism New romanticism New Romanticism Old Romanticism Stuart Curran: “two missing links” The first missing link: the history of poetry in the last quarter of Britain’s eighteenth century. The second missing ling: in the 1820s and the 1830s Charlotte Smith: veritable pioneer of romanticism, leading the sonnet writing in the romantic era. Mary Robinson Anna Barbauld: literary editors Joanna Baillie: preface to Plays on the Passions Felicia Hemans L.E.Landon: the most popular female poet in the 1820s and 1830s, remaining active and prolific after the death of Keats and Shelley. The bridging of the two missing links by the female poets: Charlotte Smith Mary Robinson; Felicia Hemans L.E.Landon Study Backdrop New Romanticism Old Romanticism The modern canonization of the female poetry canonization of the female poetry Included in the academic research provision included in the literary canon anthologies Included in the literature syllabus “This was the first era in British literature in which women writers began to rival men in their numbers, their success in sales, their literary reputations—and as poets and social commentators as well as novelists; just in the category of poetry, some nine hundred women are listed in J.R.de J. Jackson’s recent bibliography, Romantic Poetry by Women.” (Abrams, 4-5 ) How is