The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Michael Bradshaw (Editor), U. Berns (Editor)

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    Abstract

    Bringing together eminent scholars and emerging critics who offer a range of perspectives and critical methods, this collection sets a new standard in Beddoes criticism. In line withe goals of Ashgate's Research Companion series, the editors and contributors provide an overview of Beddoes criticism and identify significant new directions in Beddoes studies. These include exploring Beddoes's German context, only recently a site of critical attention; reading Beddoes's plays in light of gender theory; and reassessing Beddoes's use of dramatic genre in the context of recent work by theatre historians. Rounding out the volume are essays devoted to key areas in Beddoes scholarship such as nineteenth-century medical theories, psychoanalytic myth, and Romantic ventriloquism. This collection makes the case for Beddoes's centrality to contemporary debates about nineteenth-century literary culture and its contexts and his influence on Modernist conceptions of literature.
    Original languageUndefined
    Place of PublicationAldershot
    PublisherAshgate Publishing Ltd.
    Publication statusPublished - 2007

    Publication series

    NameThe Nineteenth Century Series
    PublisherAshgate

    Keywords

    • Thomas Lovell Beddoes
    • Romanticism
    • poetry
    • drama
    • literature
    • 19th century literary studies
    • medical theory
    • psychoanalytic theory

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