Victorian Keats and Romantic Carlyle The Fusions and Confusions of Literary Periods

Considers the use and abuse of period terms in literary history and criticism, investigating whether the terms "Romanticism" and "Victorian" have any useful literary historical and literary critical value. Chapters consider Keats or Carlyle independently or together, or focus on contemporaries of one of them or of both, and explore the effect of their literary and ideological relationships. Some topics are the emergence of class identity within a poetry of transition, Romantic and Victorian perspectives on the fiction of James Hogg, and Carlyle's "Burns." Barfoot teaches English at Leiden University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR