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Reading the Romantic Ridiculous

Andrew Mcinnes Rita J Dashwood

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  • 160 sidor
  • 2024
Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work that decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorises the ridiculous as an alternative affect to the sublime, privileging collective laughter above solitude and selfishness and reflecting on these ideals through the practice of joint authorship. Tracing the history of the ridiculous through Romantic and post-Romantic debates about sublimity, from the rediscovery of Longinus and the aesthetic theories of Burke and Kant to contemporary queer and postcolonial theory interested in silliness, lowness, and vulnerability, Reading the Romantic Ridiculous explores Romanticism's surprising commitments to ridiculousness in canonical material by writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, and Charles Lamb as well as lesser-known material from joke books to children's literature. In theory and practice, this duograph also considers the legacies of Romanticism and ridiculousness today, analysing their influence on independent film, sitcoms, and young adult fiction, as well as their place in higher education now.
  • Författare: Andrew Mcinnes, Rita J Dashwood
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781032622033
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 160
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-09-02
  • Förlag: Routledge