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Romantic Automata: Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850)
by Frederick Burwick Kathryn S. Freeman Erin M. Goss Ashley Shams Peter Erickson Wendy C. Nielsen Kate Singer Stefani Engelstein Lenora Hanson Christina Maria WeilerFor most of the eighteenth century, automata were deemed a celebration of human ingenuity, feats of science and reason. Among the Romantics, however, they prompted a contradictory apprehension about mechanization and contrivance: such science and engineering threatened the spiritual nature of life, the source of compassion in human society. A deep dread of puppets and the machinery that propels them consequently surfaced in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature. Romantic Automata is a collection of essays examining the rise of this cultural suspicion of mechanical imitations of life. Recent scholarship in post-humanism, post-colonialism, disability studies, post-modern feminism, eco-criticism, and radical Orientalism has significantly affected the critical discourse on this topic. In engaging with the work and thought of Coleridge, Poe, Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, and other Romantic luminaries, the contributors to this collection open new methodological approaches to understanding human interaction with technology that strives to simulate, supplement, or supplant organic life. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Romantic Care: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Chao FanLin yuyu from a poor family is not feeling warm and care careful growth in order to protect themselves i do not know that is in their own side of the set up a protective shield will refuse to all at the door a half-sister suddenly appeared even if lin yuyu treated her is his close relatives but she again and again hurt themselves once the old lover originally that is their perfect security but his love but let themselves suffer torture she thought that the world is so unfair she was not to be sentimentally attached and protected it was not until the appearance of that man that her faith changed from childhood to adulthood the cool handsome ceo when he entered the company was heckled and scolded by him but he was protective and concerned about himself gradually she liked him but the identity gap between the two is in front in the end will they die again and the barrier between the layers of two people can she overcome
Romantic Comedy: A Novel
by Curtis SittenfeldNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE&’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A comedy writer thinks she&’s sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions—a &“smart, sophisticated, and fun&” (Oprah Daily) novel from the author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep. &“Full of dazzling banter and sizzling chemistry.&”—People &“If you ever wanted a backstage pass to Saturday Night Live, this is the book for you.&”—Zibby Owens, Good Morning AmericaA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, BuzzFeed, PopSugar, Harper&’s Bazaar, Real Simple, She Reads, New York PostSally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, a late-night live comedy show that airs every Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she&’s long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life.But when Sally&’s friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the show, he joins the not-so-exclusive group of talented but average-looking and even dorky men at the show—and in society at large—who&’ve gotten romantically involved with incredibly beautiful and accomplished women. Sally channels her annoyance into a sketch called The Danny Horst Rule, poking fun at this phenomenon while underscoring how unlikely it is that the reverse would ever happen for a woman.Enter Noah Brewster, a pop music sensation with a reputation for dating models, who signed on as both host and musical guest for this week&’s show. Dazzled by his charms, Sally hits it off with Noah instantly, and as they collaborate on one sketch after another, she begins to wonder if there might actually be sparks flying. But this isn&’t a romantic comedy—it&’s real life. And in real life, someone like him would never date someone like her . . . right?With her keen observations and trademark ability to bring complex women to life on the page, Curtis Sittenfeld explores the neurosis-inducing and heart-fluttering wonder of love, while slyly dissecting the social rituals of romance and gender relations in the modern age.
Romantic Days, Romantic Nights
by Lynn Jae MarshThree strong women. Three sensuous heroes. Three unique stories.Romantic Days, Romantic Nights, an anthology of love, romance, and sensuality.In SpellBound, the hero is a drop-dead gorgeous warlock. Jock "Lucky" Steele, prince of the Darklings, must convince his truemate, Lania Mills, princess of the Whitelings, to marry him. The stakes are high: the continuance of our plane of existence. But, Lania is a "modern" witch, rejecting ancient Wiccan Lore as the stuff of myth and legend like eye of newt and toe of frog. Besides, she wouldn't marry Jock if he was the last man -- uh, warlock -- on earth. Not after he got her pregnant, against her will, by dreamcasting.In Top Rope, Anne Seymour is a sheltered professor of Egyptology. Wes Myckale is an unpredictable sports entertainer. How do these seemingly opposites attract, find love, and live happily ever after? Their journey is a rollercoaster of a ride, vrooming when Anne poses as her twin sister at an IWC press conference. The best laid plans go amuck and events spin out of control after Anne innocently interferes with Wes's match. Despite her instant dislike of his brash wrestling persona, she cannot stay away from the "rush" of sports entertainment or the passion of his kisses. Through her love for this complex man -- who, like her, pretends to be someone that he is not -- she finds her inner strength and her destiny.In Risking All, Alexis "Cash" Claremont is a cocky, reckless entrepreneur. Drake Smith is a staid lawyer-turned-corporate raider. Together, they must overcome their charged temperaments and their character flaws to find that tender mending of true love. In their journey, they face the darkly laid plans of Drake's enemies, plans that not only threaten their happiness but Alexis's very life. This story of a blind woman who cannot accept her limitations and of the man who loves her will appeal to the reader who wants more -- indeed, demands more -- from her romance experience than an inane, frothy romp.
Romantic Encounter
by Betty NeelsRenowned consultant Alexander Fitzgibbon had made it clear from the start that their relationship was to remain strictly professional. Yet Florence couldn't help but wonder what lay behind his cool, efficient exterior. If only she could break down the barrier and reach the man behind it....
Romantic Fairy Tales: Penguin Classics
by Carol TullyThe four works collected in this volume reveal the fascinating preoccupations of the German Romantic movement, which revelled in the inexplicable, the uncanny and the unknown and, especially, the mysterious world of the fairy tale. Goethe's richly imaginative Fairy Tale (1795) depicts an ethereal underground realm and the marriage of a beautiful man and woman, whose union heralds a new age. In Tieck's Eckbert the Fair (1797) two outsiders seek refuge in the solitude of dark woods to conceal their incestuous passion from the world, while in Fouque's Undine (1811) a water nymph falls in love and acquires a soul, and so discovers the reality of human suffering. And Brentano's Tale of Honest Casper and Fair Annie (1817) portrays the tragedy of a young couple, destroyed by a false sense of honour and pride. <P><P>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Romantic Friction: A Novel
by Lori Gold&“Relatable characters, sharp writing, and emotional turbulence will make you laugh and cry.&” —Sally Hepworth, New York Times bestselling author of Darling GirlsSofie Wilde&’s bestselling fantasy romance series has been breaking bestseller records and readers&’ hearts for years. She&’s primed to become a worldwide phenomenon as the tenth and final book is set to debut after the annual romance readers convention takes place in Chicago next week. As buzz continues to build toward the book&’s release, Sofie is asked to headline the event for the first time, a career milestone. One she won&’t let anyone take from her, especially &“the next Sofie Wilde.&”That&’s what they&’re calling her—Hartley West, the self-published debut author who writes in the style of Sofie Wilde. Except she doesn&’t actually &“write&” anything. After Hartley admits to using AI to create her novel, Sofie&’s ready to watch Hartley be skewered on social media. Except in this unpredictable world, Hartley is instead lauded for being innovative, for being such a skilled editor to take what the AI churned out and massage it into a story that&’s just as compelling as Sofie&’s—maybe even more so.After her unhinged rant unintentionally goes viral, Sofie loses her keynote, and she&’s starting to lose all her support. That loss is Hartley&’s gain—as her book sales start soaring, she&’s given the headliner spot. Sofie is livid. And she&’s not the only one. As the convention begins, Sofie is surrounded by fellow authors who also fear for their futures, their livelihoods, their art being stripped away, one AI prompt at a time. Something must be done. This has to be stopped. Now. With the clock ticking down to the keynote, Sofie enlists her fellow authors in a plan to stop Hartley, vowing, &“&‘The next Sofie Wilde&’—over my dead body. Or hers.&”Lori Gold has crafted a raucous romp through the world of publishing, asking what it really means to be a writer in the time of AI, perfect for fans of Finlay Donovan is Killing It and Emily Henry.
Romantic Mediations: Media Theory and British Romanticism (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)
by Andrew BurkettFinalist in the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Social Sciences categoryRomantic Mediations investigates the connections among British Romantic writers, their texts, and the history of major forms of technical media from the turn of the nineteenth century to the present. Opening up the vital new subfield of Romantic media studies through interventions in both media archaeology and contemporary media theory, Andrew Burkett addresses the ways that unconventional techniques and theories of storage and processing media engage with classic texts by William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and others. Ordered chronologically and structured by four crucial though often overlooked case studies that delve into Romanticism's role in the histories of incipient technical media systems, the book focuses on different examples of the ways that imaginative literature and art of the period become taken up and transformed by—while simultaneously shaping considerably—new media environments and platforms of photography, phonography, moving images, and digital media.
Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft
by Tilottama RajanOften 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.
Romantic Orpheus: Profiles of Clemens Brentano
by John F. FetzerThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Romantic Paradox: An Essay on the Poetry of Wordsworth (RLE: Wordsworth and Coleridge #2)
by C.C. ClarkeFirst published in 1962, this book reveals unexpected complexity or equivocation in Wordsworth’s use of certain key words, particularly ‘image’, ‘form’ and ‘shape’. The author endeavours to show that this complexity is related to the poet’s awareness of the ambiguity of the perceptual process. Numerous passages from The Prelude and other poems are analysed to illustrate the argument and to show that, because of this doubt or hidden perplexity, Wordsworth’s poetry has a far richer texture, is more concentrated, intricately organised and loaded with ambivalent meanings than it would otherwise have been. New light is also shed on Wordsworth’s debt to Akenside.
Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall (Routledge Focus on Literature)
by Callum FraserRomantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall explores the influence of John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, on a range of Romantic and post-Romantic writers. Specifically, the book examines the way in which these writers use the Fall, and the notion of ‘fallenness’—as envisioned in Paradise Lost—as a model for writing about their roles as poets/writers in periods of political and cultural turmoil.This book will be of value to undergraduate and postgraduate students of English Literature with a specific interest in the Romantics. The writers and texts featured—including the ‘big six’ of Romantic poets, and three canonical novels of the early nineteenth century—are very widely studied on English Literature courses across the UK, US, and Europe. This makes the book an ideal reference text or inspiration point for essays, coursework, and theses, while the concise and accessible style should be especially appealing for undergraduates and lecturers looking for an approachable overview of Romantic responses to revolution and the influence of Milton.
Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History
by Orrin N. WangWinner, 2011 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize, International Conference on RomanticismThis book explores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory.Orrin N. C. Wang explains how themes of sensation and sobriety, along with Marxist-related ideas of revolution and commodification, set the terms of narrative surrounding the history of Romanticism as a movement. The book is both polemical and critical, engaging in debates with modern thinkers such as Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Walter Benn Michaels, and Slavoj Žižek, as well as presenting fresh readings of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers, including Wordsworth, Kant, Shelley, Byron, Brontë, and Keats. Romantic Sobriety combines deeply complex, close readings with a broader reflection on Romanticism and its implications for literary study. It will interest scholars who study Romanticism from a number of perspectives, including those interested in bodily and social consumption, the roles of addiction and abstinence in literature, the connection between literary and visual culture, the intersection of critical theory and Romanticism, and the relationships among language, historical knowledge, and political practice.
Romantic Suspense Collection: Featuring Linda Howard
by Carla Cassidy Linda Howard Delores FossenThree reader-favorite romantic suspense stories in one collection for the first time from bestselling authors Linda Howard, Delores Fossen and Carla Cassidy! Midnight Rainbow by Linda Howard Grant Sullivan is the best agent the US government has ever had, and he has one mission: rescue the wealthy socialite Jane Hamilton Greer from captivity. But is Jane just a society girl in over her head, or is she really engaged in espionage that could compromise US interests for years to come? Only one thing is certain: when Grant finds Jane, questions of guilt and innocence begin to fade against the undeniable attraction between this fiery couple... Marching Orders by Delores Fossen Anna Caldwell hadn't planned on spending her honeymoon dodging bullets with a husband who couldn't even remember her! Rescue Officer Rafe McQuade had saved Anna's life, fathered her baby and proposed...but remembered nothing. But Rafe doesn't need his memory to know how much Anna means to him, but he did need everything in his power to complete the most dangerous mission of his career. Lives, and his marriage, were on the line... Mercenary's Perfect Mission by Carla Cassidy Fleeing Samuel Grayson's cult was risky for Olivia Conner, so risky, that she left behind one of her children. What she'd seen in Cold Plains could get her killed. Olivia's only option was a safe house she found with the help of mercenary Micah Grayson. But once she finds out he's Samuel's twin, she dared not trust him...or the way her body reacted to his. Now the two must embark on a deadly mission: rescue her son, take down Samuel and safeguard their hearts against love!
Romantic Thriller Collection Featuring Sharon Sala: Going Once\Murder in the Smokies\The Bridge
by Sharon Sala Paula Graves Carol EricsonThree romantic suspense stories in one collection for the first time by New York Times bestselling author Sharon Sala, Paula Graves, and Carol Ericson. GOING ONCE by Sharon Sala As floodwaters engulf her Louisiana hometown Nola Landry is stranded on high ground, sole witness to the brutal murder of three people. Finally rescued after the storm, no one believes her story—until FBI agents arrive on the scene…one of whom Nola knows very well. Tate Benton has been tracking the Stormchaser serial killer for months, never expecting the trail might lead him home, or to the woman he can’t forget. Long-buried feelings resurface, and the former lovers try to pick up the pieces in the wake of the disaster. Amid the relief effort the killer lingers, determined to silence Nola forever… . MURDER IN THE SMOKIES by Paula Graves When Sutton Calhoun left Bitterwood, Tennessee, he never thought he'd return. But now he's back to investigate an unsolved murder and team up with police detective Ivy Hawkins—the only part of Bitterwood worth remembering. Ivy is well aware of Sutton's reputation, but his smoldering eyes are resurrecting long-buried feelings. Plus, as the body count rises, Sutton is the only one who believes her that a methodical serial killer is living in Bitterwood. Ivy doesn't know which is worse—the desire she feels for a man who's nothing but trouble…or the danger posed by a killer who has them in his sights? THE BRIDGE by Carol Ericson Under the Golden Gate, Elise Duran refused to be a serial killer's next victim. She was the first of the abducted to survive. And Detective Sean Brody was there to make sure a second chance wouldn't be necessary. As the elusive murderer sends them messages, both personal and gruesome, the point becomes clear: no one can escape death. But Sean's presence can't be any stronger as he shadows Elise while on the job—and off it—proving she couldn't have asked for a better protector. Though beneath his cool exterior Sean hides a troublesome secret. One that's absolutely to die for… .
Romantic Vacancy: The Poetics of Gender, Affect, and Radical Speculation (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)
by Kate SingerRomantic Vacancy argues that, at the cult of sensibility's height, Romantic writers found alternative tropes of affect to express movement beyond sensation and the body. Grappling with sensibility's claims that sensation could be translated into ideas and emotions, poets of vacancy rewrote core empiricist philosophies that trapped women and men in sensitive bodies and, more detrimentally, in ideological narratives about emotional response that gendered subjects' bodies and minds. Kate Singer contends that affect's genesis occurs instead through a series of figurative responses and movements that loop together human and nonhuman movements of mind, body, and nature into a posthuman affect. This book discovers a new form of Romantic affect that is dynamically linguistic and material. It seeks to end the long tradition of holding women and men writers of the Romantic period as separate and largely unequal. It places women writers at the forefront of speculative thinking, repositions questions of gender at the vanguard of Romantic-era thought, revises how we have long thought of gender in the period, and rewrites our notions of Romantic affect. Finally, it answers pivotal questions facing both affect studies and Romanticism about interrelations among language, affect, and materiality. Readers will learn more about the deep history of how poetic language can help us move beyond binary gender and its limiting intellectual and affective ideologies.
Romantically Disturbed: Love Poems to Rip Your Heart Out
by Ben H. Winters Adam F. WatkinsLove Poems to Rip Your Heart OutFind a love to die for with Edgar Award winner Ben H. Winters's 30 haunting love poems. Accompanied by Adam F. Watkins's beautifully horrifying illustrations, these eerie poems reveal that love is not always what it seems to be . . .
Romanticise Your Life: How to find joy in the everyday
by Beth McColl'Romanticise Your Life came at a time when I really needed it. Beth's writing has helped me to discover the joy all around me' - ANNIE LORD, author of NOTES ON HEARTBREAKExploring all areas of life from solo travelling to the joy of friendships, tapping into your Main Character Energy, and taking control of your dating life, in this beautifully illustrated must-have guide Beth McColl shows you how romance is about appreciating the small things, because they can be just as magnificent as meeting the love of your life.Everyday romance might be:· Cooking yourself an elaborate meal· Going on a solo trip to the seaside· Writing a letter to an old friend · Texting someone out of the blue just to let them know you're missing them· Smiling at a handsome stranger on the train just before your stopEmpowered by Beth's uplifting anecdotes and inspiring tips, you will discover that whether it's a grand gesture, or just simply appreciating how the sun rises anew each day, life is about making the most of the moments we're given...Because joy and romance start with you.
Romanticise Your Life: How to find joy in the everyday
by Beth McColl'Romanticise Your Life came at a time when I really needed it. Beth's writing has helped me to discover the joy all around me' - ANNIE LORD, author of NOTES ON HEARTBREAKExploring all areas of life from solo travelling to the joy of friendships, tapping into your Main Character Energy, and taking control of your dating life, in this beautifully illustrated must-have guide Beth McColl shows you how romance is about appreciating the small things, because they can be just as magnificent as meeting the love of your life.Everyday romance might be:· Cooking yourself an elaborate meal· Going on a solo trip to the seaside· Writing a letter to an old friend · Texting someone out of the blue just to let them know you're missing them· Smiling at a handsome stranger on the train just before your stopEmpowered by Beth's uplifting anecdotes and inspiring tips, you will discover that whether it's a grand gesture, or just simply appreciating how the sun rises anew each day, life is about making the most of the moments we're given...Because joy and romance start with you.
Romanticise Your Life: How to find joy in the everyday
by Beth McColl'Romanticise Your Life came at a time when I really needed it. Beth's writing has helped me to discover the joy all around me' - ANNIE LORD, author of NOTES ON HEARTBREAKExploring all areas of life from solo travelling to the joy of friendships, tapping into your Main Character Energy, and taking control of your dating life, in this beautifully illustrated must-have guide Beth McColl shows you how romance is about appreciating the small things, because they can be just as magnificent as meeting the love of your life.Everyday romance might be:· Cooking yourself an elaborate meal· Going on a solo trip to the seaside· Writing a letter to an old friend · Texting someone out of the blue just to let them know you're missing them· Smiling at a handsome stranger on the train just before your stopEmpowered by Beth's uplifting anecdotes and inspiring tips, you will discover that whether it's a grand gesture, or just simply appreciating how the sun rises anew each day, life is about making the most of the moments we're given...Because joy and romance start with you.
Romanticism (The New Critical Idiom)
by Aidan DayRomanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and critical issues of this crucial era. This fully updated second edition includes: Discussion of a broad range of writers including William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, H.D. Thoreau, Frederick Douglas A new chapter on American Romanticism Discussion of the romantic sublime or romantic imagination An engagement with critical debates such as postcolonialism, gender studies and ecocriticism.
Romanticism and Visuality: Fragments, History, Spectacle (Routledge Studies in Romanticism #10)
by Sophie ThomasThis book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual, the impact of new visual media on the literary and historical imagination, and on fragments and ruins as occupying the shifting border between the visible and the invisible. It examines a broad selection of instances that reflect debates over how seeing should itself be viewed: instances, from Daguerre's Diorama, to the staging of Coleridge's play Remorse, to the figure of the Medusa in Shelley's poetry and at the Phantasmagoria, in which the very act of seeing is represented or dramatized. In reconsidering literary engagements with the expanding visual field, this study argues that the popular culture of Regency Britain reflected not just emergent and highly capitalized forms of mass entertainment, but also a lively interest in the aesthetic and conceptual dimensions of looking. What is commonly thought to be the Romantic resistance to the visible gives way to a generative fascination with the visual and its imaginative--even spectacular--possibilities.
Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature
by Onno OerlemansGiven current environmental concerns, it is not surprising to find literary critics and theorists surveying the Romantic poets with ecological hindsight. In this timely study, Onno Oerlemans extends these current eco-critical views by synthesizing a range of viewpoints from the Romantic period. He explores not only the ideas of poets and artists, but also those of philosophers, scientists, and explorers.Oerlemans grounds his discussion in the works of specific Romantic authors, especially Wordsworth and Shelley, but also draws liberally on such fields as literary criticism, the philosophy of science, travel literature, environmentalist policy, art history, biology, geology, and genetics, creating a fertile mix of historical analysis, cultural commentary, and close reading. Through this, we discover that the Romantics understood how they perceived the physical world, and how they distorted and abused it. Oerlemans's wide-ranging study adds much to our understanding of Romantic-period thinkers and their relationship to the natural world.
Romanticism, History, Historicism: Essays on an Orthodoxy (Routledge Studies in Romanticism)
by Damian Walford DaviesThe "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism’s revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment of the field and in the expansion of the Romantic canon. In this major new collection of eleven essays, critics reflect on New Historicism’s inheritance, its achievements and its limitations. Integrating a self-reflexive engagement with New Historicism’s "history" and detailed attention to a range of Romantic lives and literary texts, the collection offers a close-up view of Romanticism’s hybrid present, and a dynamic vision of its future.
Romanticismo e Miracoli di Natale
by Sky CorganQuando una ragazza di provincia si imbatte in un famoso cantante country travestito, inizia la guarigione inaspettata ... Aurora McGovern era entusiasta di scoprire che la famosa cantante country Kline West sarebbe venuta nella sua piccola città. Essendo amica intima di suo padre di lui, è stata una delle prime persone invitate a una festa di benvenuto per la celebrità. Ma quando un vecchio datore di lavoro chiede ad Aurora se può gestire la sua caffetteria in modo da poter portare sua figlia alla festa per incontrare la cantante, il cuore gentile di Aurora vince e lei perde l'occasione della vita. Da quando un tragico incidente d'auto durante le vacanze ha reclamato sua madre e sua sorella, Kline West non ama il Natale. Incolpando parzialmente suo padre per l'incidente, Kline risponde a malapena alle sue telefonate e viene a trovarlo solo durante il Natale in modo che possano superare emotivamente le vacanze insieme. Quest'anno non doveva essere diverso, seduto quasi in silenzio, facendo finta che il Natale non esistesse. Quando il padre di Kline organizza inaspettatamente una festa di benvenuto per la cantante country, la pressione diventa più di quanto Kline possa sopportare. La fuga sembra la soluzione migliore per alleviare lo stress e si ritrova al bar locale dove lavora Aurora. Non sa che il loro incontro casuale cambierà il significato del Natale per entrambi. Questa commovente storia d'amore per le vacanze in una piccola città è una storia di perdite e guadagni, spirito comunitario e guarigione aiutando gli altri.