Presented By: Nineteenth Century Forum
Reading the Romantics
A Reading Series with Sarah Van Cleve and Ellie Reese
Please join us for the second discussion of our Fall 2016 reading series called Reading the Romantics.
We will meet on December 5th from 12:30-1:30pm in Angell Hall 3154 to discuss the first chapter from Tilottama Rajan's Romantic Narratives: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, and Wollstonecraft (2010), called “The Trauma of Lyric: Shelley’s Missed Encounter with Poetry in Alastor.”
The chapter focuses on Shelley’s Alastor and some of the Wordsworth poems that influenced it — mostly the Lucy poems and The Ruined Cottage — in order to further Rajan’s larger claim about a Romantic ’narrativity’ that is, for her, separate from the novelistic, chronological plot structure (although not always excluded from it) and characterized by a certain openness, “worklessness,” and a “constant process of unmaking” that allows Shelley and other Romantic authors to oscillate between poetry and prose.
A light vegetarian lunch will be served. Please kindly RSVP to Ani Bezirdzhyan (abezirdz@umich.edu) to receive the pre-circulated reading materials.
All are welcome to attend one or both events in the reading series.
We will meet on December 5th from 12:30-1:30pm in Angell Hall 3154 to discuss the first chapter from Tilottama Rajan's Romantic Narratives: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, and Wollstonecraft (2010), called “The Trauma of Lyric: Shelley’s Missed Encounter with Poetry in Alastor.”
The chapter focuses on Shelley’s Alastor and some of the Wordsworth poems that influenced it — mostly the Lucy poems and The Ruined Cottage — in order to further Rajan’s larger claim about a Romantic ’narrativity’ that is, for her, separate from the novelistic, chronological plot structure (although not always excluded from it) and characterized by a certain openness, “worklessness,” and a “constant process of unmaking” that allows Shelley and other Romantic authors to oscillate between poetry and prose.
A light vegetarian lunch will be served. Please kindly RSVP to Ani Bezirdzhyan (abezirdz@umich.edu) to receive the pre-circulated reading materials.
All are welcome to attend one or both events in the reading series.
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