Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age

by Tom Lockwood

Overview

Tom Lockwood's study is the first examination of Jonson's place in the texts and culture of the Romantic age. Part one of the book explores theatrical, critical, and editorial responses to Jonson, including his place in the post-Garrick theatre, critical estimations of his life and work, and the politically charged making and reception of William Gifford's 1816 edition of Jonson's Works. Part two explores allusive and imitative responses to Jonson's poetry and plays in the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and explores how Jonson serves variously as a model by which to measure the poet laureate, Robert Southey, and Coleridge's eldest son, Hartley. The introduction and conclusion locate this "Romantic Jonson" against his eighteenth-century and Victorian re-creations. Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age shows us a varied, mobile, and contested Jonson and offers a fresh perspective on the Romantic age.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199280780
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/24/2005
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 5.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dr Tom Lockwood is a Tom Lockwood is a Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham. He was the 2003 winner of the Review of English Studies Essay Prize.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Romantic Jonson, Marginal Jonson2. Francis Godolphin Waldron and The Sad Shepherd: Theatre, Criticism, Editing3. Theatrical Jonson4. Critical Jonson5. Editorial Jonson6. Francis Godolphin Waldron and The Sad Shepherd: Allusion and Imitation7. Allusive Jonson (I): Coleridge8. Allusive Jonson (II): Coleridge, Southey, and Hartley Coleridge9. Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

"A careful and serious discussion of Jonson's presence between 1776 and 1850."—Elizabeth Helsinger, Studies in English Literature

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