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Romantic Fiat

Demystification and Enchantment in Lyric Poetry

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Introduction: Fiat in Lyric

  2. Giving Commands and Letting Go

  3. Ontology and the Lyric

  4. Blessing Cursing

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About this book

In the Romantic period's economics of 'fiat' money the legacy of romanticism involves absolutist gestures of verbal fiat. Focused on William Wordsworth, but in constant range of his poet-successors and modern critics, Romantic Fiat presents an argument for a double romantic signature of 'let there be' and 'let be.'

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"In the course of the volume, Lindstrom gathers an impressive number of 'let be' statements . . . From discussions of Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey' and 'The Old Cumberland Beggar' to Shelley's Peter Bell and Byron's Don Juan, the book accomplishes something that is all too rare in scholarship . . . the book changes what one notices in a poetry that has become all too familiar . . . I conclude with an injunction: 'do not let this book be,' by which I mean, read this book." - Studies in Romanticism

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, University of Vermont, USA

    Eric Reid Lindstrom

About the author

ERIC REID LINDSTROM is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Vermont, USA. His publications include articles in Literary Imagination and Studies in Romanticism - this is his first book.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Romantic Fiat

  • Book Subtitle: Demystification and Enchantment in Lyric Poetry

  • Authors: Eric Reid Lindstrom

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299412

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-28236-0Published: 01 March 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32831-4Published: 01 January 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-29941-2Published: 01 March 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 266

  • Topics: British and Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory

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