Romantics and the May Day Tradition
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Black Beetles
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Bourgeois Public Sphere
British folklore studies
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Clare's Poem
Clare’s Poem
class relations in literature
common
Common Fame
Common Sphere
cultural identity formation
Customary Culture
Ecchoing Green
Elizabeth Montagu
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Green Coronal
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Holly Lodge
hunt
hunts
Intimations Ode
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Leigh Hunt's London Journal
Leigh Hunt’s London Journal
Literary Public Sphere
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london
Natural World
Peasant Poet
Plebeian Public Sphere
plebeian self-expression
public
public sphere theory
Real Soot
regional cultural practices
Romantic era social customs analysis
Romantic Era Writers
Sir Arthur Wardour
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Spring Paradise
Village Minstrel
William Lisle
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754657743
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This important contribution to both Romantic and cultural studies situates literature by Wordsworth, Southey, Hunt, Clare, and Blake within the context of folklore and popular customs associated with May Day. Romantic responses to May Day bring into focus a range of issues now regarded as central to the writing of the period - the natural world, city life, the pastoral, regional and national identities, popular culture, cultural degeneration, and cultural difference. Essaka Joshua explores new connections between these issues in the context of a set of heterogeneous cultural practices that are rooted in the traditions and activities of diverse social groups. She shows how Romantic writers have positioned themselves in relation to what has become known as the public sphere, and the way in which they articulate an understanding of the common sphere as a site of plebeian self-expression. Joshua's nuanced account acknowledges the full complexity of class formations and inter-class relationships and permits noncanonical and canonical texts such as the Prelude, Songs of Innocence and Experience, and 'The Village Minstrel' to be reinterpreted in a cultural context that has not been previously explored by literary critics.
Essaka Joshua is a Lecturer in the Department of English, School of Humanities, University of Birmingham, UK.
