David Duff
Biographic Data
| ID | 1593250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Duff |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Duff |
| SIGNATURE | DUFF D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Nation in British Literature and Culture
The Nation and British Literature and Culture charts the emergence of Britain as a political, social and cultural construct, examining the manner in which its constituent elements were brought together through a process of amalgamation and conquest. The fashioning of the nation through literature and culture is examined, as well as counter narratives that have sought to call national orthodoxies into question. Specific topics explored include the…
The French Revolution
Called by P. B. Shelley ‘the master-theme of the epoch’, the French Revolution profoundly affected British literature, giving new energy to the nascent Romantic movement while dissolving the boundary between literature and politics. This chapter examines the polarisation of British public opinion in the aftermath of the Revolution and the contestation of its ideas in the 1790s ‘pamphlet war’. The chapter analyses eye-witness accounts of the Revol…
The Romantic Ode and the Art of Brinkmanship
The Romantic Ode and the Art of Brinkmanship
Cet article réévalue l’ode romantique à travers le concept de brinkmanship (stratégie de la corde raide) conçu par Edward Young en 1728 et relancé et développé par Coleridge. Young dépeint l’ode pindarique comme un genre à risque qui semble sauvage et « imméthodique », mais qui « a autant de logique au fond, qu’Aristote ou qu’Euclide ». Coleridge élabore cette « logique » poétique et fait de l’idée de forces mentales conflictuelles mais harmonisé…
The Prospectus War of the 1790s
Prospectuses, a type of printed advertisement widely used in the eighteenth-century book trade, played a vital but previously unexamined role in the French Revolution controversy, attracting subscribers to political publications and encapsulating their message. Focusing on journal and newspaper prospectuses, which proliferated in the 1790s, this article analyzes examples from across the political spectrum, including the prospectus for the Argus b…
The Revolutionary Decade
This chapter examines the literature of the controversy over the French Revolution. It discusses the polemical texts that contributed directly to the controversy associated with Burke, Godwin, Paine, and Wollstonecraft, but also the culture wars that perpetuated it in terms of the novel, poetry, and the theatre. In the 1790s, some of the great names associated with Romanticism came to literary maturity, Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth among them…
Ireland and Union
Irish writers reacted to the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland by creating a literature deeply invested in political disputation and sentimental appeal. The works of Irish Romanticism display formal and generic hybridity, as writers responded to the material and cultural changes brought about by Union. Far from solving the national question, the Union initiated a literature interested in fragmentation, decline, and melancholy. This c…
The Culture of Song
This chapter examines the complex role of songs and ballads in Britain from the 1760s to the 1830s. It traces the emergence of a new critical discourse about song and explores how songs and ballads were presented to the public by publishers. It investigates the lyric form as it was understood and utilized by Romantic writers and discusses the importance of antiquity within modern song culture, as well the relationship between popular and art song…
Poetry and Social Class
During the Romantic period, poetry and social class were intimately connected. Many of the period’s political arguments were about the social hierarchy, and poetic writing often reflected these debates. A poet’s social origin also had much to do with what he or she wrote and how that writing might be received. Fundamentally, audiences assumed that a legitimate poet would have a classical education unavailable to writers below a certain rank. Poet…
Orientalism and Hebraism
This chapter begins by showing how Sir William Jones used ‘Eastern’ poetry as a means of regenerating English literary culture and expanding its range, exemplified by his role in mediating Hindu mythology for his readers. While works by Coleridge, Shelley, and others responded to this stimulus, a tradition of allegorical verse romance pioneered by Landor used Eastern settings to reflect on the politics of the revolutionary era. Southey’s Thalaba …
The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism
The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism offers a comprehensive guide to the literature and thought of the Romantic period, and an overview of recent research. Written by a team of international experts, the Handbook analyses all aspects of the Romantic movement, pinpointing its different historical phases and analysing the intellectual and political currents which shaped them. It gives particular attention to devolutionary trends, exploring th…
The Greco-Roman Revival
During the eighteenth century an emergent historicism, which differentiated modernity radically from past ages, questioned the traditional notion of a ‘classical tradition’ of timeless values exemplified in Greek and Roman works. Classical antiquity began to be understood as a repository of historical artefacts associated, in part nostalgically, with ‘primitive’ ways of thought. Such recognition of the distance between modernity and antiquity par…
Charles Lamb's Art of Intimation
The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
The French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier. The public controversy lasted from the initial, positive reaction to French events in 1789 to the outlawing of the radical societies in 1799. This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. It contains thirt…
Romanticism and the uses of genre
"This wide-ranging and original book reappraises the role of genre, and genre theory, in British Romanticism. Analysing numerous examples from 1760 to 1830, [author] examines the generic innovations and experiments which propel the Romantic 'revolution in literature', but also the fascination with archaic forms such as the ballad, sonnet, epic, and romance, whose revival and transformation make Romanticism a retro movement as well as a revolution…
Maximal Tensions and Minimal Conditions
This article reappraises the distinctive theory of genre developed by Yuri Tynianov (1894-1943), a key figure in the Russian formalist movement. Tynianov modifies Shklovky's conception of genre as a "repertoire of devices" by emphasising the interdependence of devices and the relations of dominance and subordination between them, and between genres themselves. Rejecting static definitions of literature and what he saw as the artificial disjunctio…
Intertextuality versus Genre Theory
Antididacticism as a Contested Principle in Romantic Aesthetics
Eighteenth-Century Life - Volume 25, Number 2, Spring 2001
Intertextuality versus Genre Theory
Maximal Tensions and Minimal Conditions
This article reappraises the distinctive theory of genre developed by Yuri Tynianov (1894-1943), a key figure in the Russian formalist movement. Tynianov modifies Shklovky's conception of genre as a "repertoire of devices" by emphasising the interdependence of devices and the relations of dominance and subordination between them, and between genres themselves. Rejecting static definitions of literature and what he saw as the artificial disjunctio…
The Prospectus War of the 1790s
Prospectuses, a type of printed advertisement widely used in the eighteenth-century book trade, played a vital but previously unexamined role in the French Revolution controversy, attracting subscribers to political publications and encapsulating their message. Focusing on journal and newspaper prospectuses, which proliferated in the 1790s, this article analyzes examples from across the political spectrum, including the prospectus for the Argus b…
Antididacticism as a Contested Principle in Romantic Aesthetics
Eighteenth-Century Life - Volume 25, Number 2, Spring 2001
Intertextuality versus Genre Theory
Maximal Tensions and Minimal Conditions
This article reappraises the distinctive theory of genre developed by Yuri Tynianov (1894-1943), a key figure in the Russian formalist movement. Tynianov modifies Shklovky's conception of genre as a "repertoire of devices" by emphasising the interdependence of devices and the relations of dominance and subordination between them, and between genres themselves. Rejecting static definitions of literature and what he saw as the artificial disjunctio…
Romanticism and the uses of genre
"This wide-ranging and original book reappraises the role of genre, and genre theory, in British Romanticism. Analysing numerous examples from 1760 to 1830, [author] examines the generic innovations and experiments which propel the Romantic 'revolution in literature', but also the fascination with archaic forms such as the ballad, sonnet, epic, and romance, whose revival and transformation make Romanticism a retro movement as well as a revolution…
The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
The French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier. The public controversy lasted from the initial, positive reaction to French events in 1789 to the outlawing of the radical societies in 1799. This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. It contains thirt…
Charles Lamb's Art of Intimation
The Revolutionary Decade
This chapter examines the literature of the controversy over the French Revolution. It discusses the polemical texts that contributed directly to the controversy associated with Burke, Godwin, Paine, and Wollstonecraft, but also the culture wars that perpetuated it in terms of the novel, poetry, and the theatre. In the 1790s, some of the great names associated with Romanticism came to literary maturity, Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth among them…
Ireland and Union
Irish writers reacted to the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland by creating a literature deeply invested in political disputation and sentimental appeal. The works of Irish Romanticism display formal and generic hybridity, as writers responded to the material and cultural changes brought about by Union. Far from solving the national question, the Union initiated a literature interested in fragmentation, decline, and melancholy. This c…
The Culture of Song
This chapter examines the complex role of songs and ballads in Britain from the 1760s to the 1830s. It traces the emergence of a new critical discourse about song and explores how songs and ballads were presented to the public by publishers. It investigates the lyric form as it was understood and utilized by Romantic writers and discusses the importance of antiquity within modern song culture, as well the relationship between popular and art song…
Poetry and Social Class
During the Romantic period, poetry and social class were intimately connected. Many of the period’s political arguments were about the social hierarchy, and poetic writing often reflected these debates. A poet’s social origin also had much to do with what he or she wrote and how that writing might be received. Fundamentally, audiences assumed that a legitimate poet would have a classical education unavailable to writers below a certain rank. Poet…
Orientalism and Hebraism
This chapter begins by showing how Sir William Jones used ‘Eastern’ poetry as a means of regenerating English literary culture and expanding its range, exemplified by his role in mediating Hindu mythology for his readers. While works by Coleridge, Shelley, and others responded to this stimulus, a tradition of allegorical verse romance pioneered by Landor used Eastern settings to reflect on the politics of the revolutionary era. Southey’s Thalaba …
The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism
The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism offers a comprehensive guide to the literature and thought of the Romantic period, and an overview of recent research. Written by a team of international experts, the Handbook analyses all aspects of the Romantic movement, pinpointing its different historical phases and analysing the intellectual and political currents which shaped them. It gives particular attention to devolutionary trends, exploring th…
The Greco-Roman Revival
During the eighteenth century an emergent historicism, which differentiated modernity radically from past ages, questioned the traditional notion of a ‘classical tradition’ of timeless values exemplified in Greek and Roman works. Classical antiquity began to be understood as a repository of historical artefacts associated, in part nostalgically, with ‘primitive’ ways of thought. Such recognition of the distance between modernity and antiquity par…
The Romantic Ode and the Art of Brinkmanship
The Romantic Ode and the Art of Brinkmanship
Cet article réévalue l’ode romantique à travers le concept de brinkmanship (stratégie de la corde raide) conçu par Edward Young en 1728 et relancé et développé par Coleridge. Young dépeint l’ode pindarique comme un genre à risque qui semble sauvage et « imméthodique », mais qui « a autant de logique au fond, qu’Aristote ou qu’Euclide ». Coleridge élabore cette « logique » poétique et fait de l’idée de forces mentales conflictuelles mais harmonisé…
The Prospectus War of the 1790s
Prospectuses, a type of printed advertisement widely used in the eighteenth-century book trade, played a vital but previously unexamined role in the French Revolution controversy, attracting subscribers to political publications and encapsulating their message. Focusing on journal and newspaper prospectuses, which proliferated in the 1790s, this article analyzes examples from across the political spectrum, including the prospectus for the Argus b…
The Nation in British Literature and Culture
The Nation and British Literature and Culture charts the emergence of Britain as a political, social and cultural construct, examining the manner in which its constituent elements were brought together through a process of amalgamation and conquest. The fashioning of the nation through literature and culture is examined, as well as counter narratives that have sought to call national orthodoxies into question. Specific topics explored include the…
The French Revolution
Called by P. B. Shelley ‘the master-theme of the epoch’, the French Revolution profoundly affected British literature, giving new energy to the nascent Romantic movement while dissolving the boundary between literature and politics. This chapter examines the polarisation of British public opinion in the aftermath of the Revolution and the contestation of its ideas in the 1790s ‘pamphlet war’. The chapter analyses eye-witness accounts of the Revol…
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