Northrop Frye's Writings on the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Northrop Frye's Writings on the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Country
Canada
Published
30 October 2005
Pages
515
ISBN
9780802038241

Northrop Frye’s Writings on the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Highlighting aspects of his scholarship seldom given sufficient emphasis, this new volume of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye documents Frye’s writings on the literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (apart from those on William Blake, which are featured in Volumes 14 and 16 of the Collected Works). The volume includes Frye’s seminal 1956 essay Towards Defining an Age of Sensibility and the highly influential 1968 book A Study of English Romanticism. With these pieces and the other published and unpublished works contained in the volume, Frye changed the way the transition from the major Augustan figures to the Romantics was viewed. These works are a central part of Frye’s long and radical rethinking of the relation of romance and Romanticism and, through them, he emerges as a meticulous textual critic, teasing out the fine brushstroke effects in writers as varied as Boswell and Beddoes, Dickens and Dickinson.

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