History and Myth: Essays on English Romantic Literature - Softcover

Jeffrey N Cox; Minna Doskow; Michael Ferber; Eric C Walker; Brooke Hopkins; Nicholas Roe; Lynn Byrd; Christina M Root

9780814320105: History and Myth: Essays on English Romantic Literature

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814320104 ISBN 13: 9780814320105

Publisher: Wayne State University, 1990

The essays Stephen C. Behrendt assembled for this volume explore some of the ways in which English-Romantic poets and playwrights either mythologized history and its leading figures or, in some cases, deliberately rejected and subverted that myth-making activity. Taken together, the essays offer mutually revealing, mutually refining "lenses" upon one another and upon the literature they assess. In their diversity of viewpoints, they bear out the accuracy of William Blake's observation that "Opposition is True Friendship," while in their philosophical and methodological affinities they attest to the pervasiveness of the Romantic impulse to construct and to demolish myths.

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Book Description:

This collection explores how English-Romantic poets and playwrights either mythologized history and its leading figures or, in some cases, deliberately rejected and subverted that myth-making activity.

About the Author:

Stephen C. Behrendt, a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, is Professor of English and Graduate Chair at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of The Moment of Explosion and the editor of an edition of Shelley's Zastrozzi and St. Irvyne. His articles have appeared in a variety of scholarly journals, including Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, Papers on Language and Literature, and Genre.

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