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L Romanticism and Time EDITED BY SOPHIE LANIEL-MUSITELLI AND CÉLINE SABIRON ANIEL -M Romanticism and Time This brilliantly conceived, exhilarating, and wide-ranging collection of essays is essential reading for all those interested in taking the long view of the historical, literary, and USITELLI philosophical times of British Romanticism. Literary Temporalities Pamela Clemitt, Queen Mary, University of London Romanticism and Time is a remarkable affirmation of border-crossings and international AND EDITED BY SOPHIE LANIEL-MUSITELLI AND CÉLINE SABIRON exchanges in many ways. This major collection of essays represents the work of eminent scholars from France, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, the United Kingdom, and the S United States, as they in turn represent the Romanticisms that emerged not only from the ABIRON “four nations” of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland but also from Continental Europe and America. With their commitment to diversity, to change, and to exchange, and because of their awareness of the romanticism of periodization itself, the authors in this volume ( produce, as Wordsworth might say, a “timely utterance.” EDS ) Kevis Goodman, University of California, Berkeley This volume considers Romantic poetry as embedded in and reflecting on the march R of time, regarding it not merely as a reaction to the course of events between the late- eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, but also as a form of creative engagement with history in the making. Revising current thinking about periodisation, these essays survey the Romantic canon’s evolution over time and approach Romanticism as a phenomenon unfolding across national borders. As with all Open Book publica� ons, this en� re book is available to read for free on the OMANTICISM publisher’s website. 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Contents Acknowledgements vii Introduction: The Times of Romanticism ix Sophie Laniel-Musitelli and Céline Sabiron Section I: Restoration, Revival, and Revolution across 1 Romantic Europe 1. ‘Future Restoration’ 3 Paul Hamilton 2. ‘Anthropocene Temporalities and British Romantic 25 Poetry’ Evan Gottlieb 3. ‘Beethoven: Revolutionary Transformations’ 49 Gregory Dart Section II: Romantic Conceptions of Time 75 4. ‘The Temporality of the Soul: Immanent Conceptions of 77 Time in Wordsworth and Byron’ Ralf Haekel 5. ‘“Footing slow across a silent plain”: Time and Walking 97 in Keatsian Poetics’ Oriane Monthéard Section III: The Poetics of Time 119 6. ‘Contracting Time: John Clare’s The Shepherd’s Calendar’ 121 Lily Dessau 7. ‘Book-Time in Charles Lamb and Washington Irving’ 145 Matthew Redmond 8. ‘“a disciple of Albertus Magnus [...] in the eighteenth 163 century”: Anachronism and Anachrony in Frankenstein’ Anne Rouhette vi Romanticism and Time Section IV: Persistence and Afterlives 181 9. ‘Heaps of Time in Beckett and Shelley’ 183 Laura Quinney 10. ‘“Thy Wreck a Glory”: Venice, Subjectivity, and 205 Temporality in Byron and Shelley and the Post-Romantic Imagination’ Mark Sandy Section V: Romanticism and Periodisation 225 ‘Romanticism and Periodisation: A Roundtable’ 227 David Duf, Nicholas Halmi, Laurent Folliot, Martin Procházka, and Fiona Staford List of Contributors 273 List of Figures 279 Index 281 Acknowledgements This book originates from an international conference on ‘Romanticism and Time’ held at the Université de Lille in November 2018 and organised jointly by the French Society for the Study of British Romanticism (SERA) and the Universités de Lille and Lorraine. Our warm thanks go to the SERA, who set this project in motion, and to the scientifc committee of the Romanticism and Time conference, Caroline Bertonèche, Mathieu Duplay, Thomas Dutoit, Jean-Marie Fournier, and Marc Porée, for their guidance. We are grateful to our institutions, the Université de Lille and the Université de Lorraine, and, in particular, to our research centres CÉCILLE1 and IDEA2, who supported the project from the start. We are particularly thankful to Marie-France Pilarski and Bruno Legrand (Université de Lille) for their invaluable help throughout the project and to Isabelle Gaudy-Campbell (Université de Lorraine) for welcoming this project, as well as for her trust and support. We are also grateful to Nicholas Roe and Ann Winnicombe for granting us permission to reprint a revised version of section II from Mark Sandy’s article in the Romanticism online issue on ‘Light’ (22. 3. 2016: https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2016.0287). We would also like to thank Sarah Wootton for permission to reprint revised parts of Mark Sandy’s chapter from Venice and the Cultural Imagination (Abingdon and New York: Pickering & Chatto, 2012) as well as Kostas Boyiopoulos and Michael Shallcross for permission to reprint revised sections of Mark Sandy’s essay in Aphoristic Modernity: 1880 to the Present (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020). The research for Martin Procházka’s contribution was supported by the European Regional Development Fund Project 1 Univ. Lille, ULR 4074 – CECILLE – Centre d’Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères, F-59000 Lille, France. 2 Univ. Lorraine, UR 2338 – IDEA – Interdisciplinarité Dans les Études Anglophones, F-54000 Nancy, France. viii Romanticism and Time ‘Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World’ (No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/ 0000734). We are deeply thankful to the Institut Universitaire de France who supported the Romanticism and Time conference and this publication. Finally, we would like to express our sincerest thanks and gratitude to our contributors for committing their considerable talent, energy, and enthusiasm to this project. Introduction: The Times of Romanticism Sophie Laniel-Musitelli1 and Céline Sabiron2 ‘Eternity is in love with the productions of time’.3 In this volume, we have decided to take Blake’s aphorism as an invitation to see Romantic writing as a ‘production of time’; to look for the work of time within Romantic literature. One of the aims of this collection is to understand Romanticism as the product of its own time, in its ability to refect history and in the emergence of its specifc poetics through time. Blake’s words can also be read as a meditation on poetics unfolding ‘in time’: on poetic form as the product of rhyme and rhythm. Yet, if we attend to the reversibility that characterises Blake’s ‘Proverbs of Hell’, this aphorism also ofers a vision of Romanticism as an active ‘production of time’, not only registering the passing of time but also shaping conceptions of time and making history. Romantic writing then also appears as an art of time, creating new representations of temporal phenomena and generating new modes of time-consciousness. The contributions in this collection, which includes a selection of revised papers from the ‘Romanticism and Time’ conference as well as specially 1 Université de Lille and Institut Universitaire de France. Univ. Lille, ULR 4074— CECILLE—Centre d’Études en Civilisations Langues et Lettres Etrangères, F-59000 Lille, France and Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). 2 Université de Lorraine.