Table des matières

Acknowledgements

Sophie Laniel-Musitelli et Céline Sabiron

Introduction: The Times of Romanticism

Section I. Restoration, revival, and revolution across romantic Europe

Paul Hamilton

1. Future Restoration

Evan Gottlieb

2. Anthropocene Temporalities and British Romantic Poetry

• 1. Deep Time
• 2. Slow Time
• 3. Revolutionary Time
• 4. Hyper-Chaotic Time

Gregory Dart

3. Beethoven: Revolutionary Transformations

Section II. Romantic conceptions of time

Ralf Haekel

4. The Temporality of the Soul: Immanent Conceptions of Time in Wordsworth and Byron

• Falling into Time: The Temporality of the Soul
• William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality
• Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

Oriane Monthéard

5. ‘Footing slow across a silent plain’: Time and Walking in Keatsian Poetics

• From Historical Time to Poetic Temporality
• Returning to Poetic Nature: Walking in a Fictionalised Landscape
• The Body as a Temporal Medium

Section III. The poetics of time

Lily Dessau

6. Contracting Time: John Clare’s The Shepherd’s Calendar

• Calendars, Almanacs, and Clocks
• ‘Jealous Eyes’ and Nostalgic Ears
• Arresting Development, or the Lyric Present
• ‘ &’, ‘Now’, and ‘No More’
• Contracting Time: An Afterword on John Taylor’s Interventions

Matthew Redmond

7. Book-Time in Charles Lamb and Washington Irving

• Charles Lamb: The Volume of the Mind
• American Antiquarian

Anne Rouhette

8. ‘A disciple of Albertus Magnus [...] in the eighteenth century’: Anachronism and Anachrony in Frankestein

Section IV. Persistence and afterlives

Laura Quinney

9. Heaps of Time in Beckett and Shelley

Mark Sandy

10. ‘Thy Wreck a Glory’: Venice, Subjectivity, and Temporality in Byron and Shelley and the Post-Romantic Imagination

• Nietzsche and Venice: Romantic Poetic Legacies and the Art of Aphorism
• Byron, Shelley, Twilight, and Temporality
• Venice as Mindscape: Byron, Subjectivity, and Poetic Mobility

Section V. Romanticism and periodisation

David Duff, Nicholas Halmi, Fiona Stafford et al.

Romanticism and Periodisation: A Roundtable

• Introduction: Phases of British Romanticism
• Periodisation and the Epochal Event
• Romanticism and the ‘Four Nations’: Not Quite in Time
• Periodisation as a Problem: The Case of American Romanticism
• Response
• Discussion

List of Contributors

List of Figures

Index