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- catalog abstract "Describing an enduring moral puzzle and explaining how it helped shape a key moment in the history of poetic drama, Fatal Autonomy represents Romanticism as a reckoning with the costs of individual agency. No moral calculus can ever fully determine the relation of events to an individual's actions and failures to act, William Jewett argues; that is why the stubborn belief in such a relationship gives rise to tragedy. Jewett maintains that tragic drama forces its readers and viewers to confront the ways in which the use of language grants agency. The Romantic poets saw a moral challenge in that confrontation and followed its generic implications toward a new kind of poetry. Fatal Autonomy thus looks to Romantic drama to explain how Romantic poetry came to hold a permanent grip on conceptions of moral life. Tracing the source of major strains in British Romanticism to a politically charged body of dramatic poems, Jewett focuses on two historical moments: 1794-97, which he describes as the political turning point in the careers of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and 1819-22, the years in which he believes Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron wrote their best poetry.".
- catalog contributor b10432986.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Describing an enduring moral puzzle and explaining how it helped shape a key moment in the history of poetic drama, Fatal Autonomy represents Romanticism as a reckoning with the costs of individual agency. No moral calculus can ever fully determine the relation of events to an individual's actions and failures to act, William Jewett argues; that is why the stubborn belief in such a relationship gives rise to tragedy. Jewett maintains that tragic drama forces its readers and viewers to confront the ways in which the use of language grants agency. The Romantic poets saw a moral challenge in that confrontation and followed its generic implications toward a new kind of poetry. Fatal Autonomy thus looks to Romantic drama to explain how Romantic poetry came to hold a permanent grip on conceptions of moral life. Tracing the source of major strains in British Romanticism to a politically charged body of dramatic poems, Jewett focuses on two historical moments: 1794-97, which he describes as the political turning point in the careers of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and 1819-22, the years in which he believes Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron wrote their best poetry.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Tragic Agents and the Origins of Romanticism, 1794-1797. 1. The Sublime Machine of History: The Fall of Robespierre and Wat Tyler. 2. The Claim of Compulsion: The Borderers. 3. Fancy and the Spell of Enlightenment: Osorio -- pt. 2. Shelley, Byron, and the Body Politic, 1819-1822. 4. Performing Skepticism: The Cenci. 5. Fatal Autonomy: Marino Faliero. 6. History's Lethean Song: Charles the First and The Triumph of Life.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 262 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Fatal autonomy.".
- catalog identifier "0801433525 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fatal autonomy.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog relation "Fatal autonomy.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "822/.709358 21".
- catalog subject "Agent (Philosophy) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Autonomy (Psychology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "English drama (Tragedy) History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English drama 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Moral conditions in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR719.V4 J49 1997".
- catalog subject "Political plays, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Romanticism Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Self in literature.".
- catalog subject "Verse drama, English History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Tragic Agents and the Origins of Romanticism, 1794-1797. 1. The Sublime Machine of History: The Fall of Robespierre and Wat Tyler. 2. The Claim of Compulsion: The Borderers. 3. Fancy and the Spell of Enlightenment: Osorio -- pt. 2. Shelley, Byron, and the Body Politic, 1819-1822. 4. Performing Skepticism: The Cenci. 5. Fatal Autonomy: Marino Faliero. 6. History's Lethean Song: Charles the First and The Triumph of Life.".
- catalog title "Fatal autonomy : Romantic drama and the rhetoric of agency / William Jewett.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".