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Romanticism's antipodean spectres : Don Juan and the transgression of space and time
Giles, Paul
Giles, Paul
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This article finds an antipodean imaginary as a central axis of Romantic poetics. More than shaping the content and thematic attitudes of what came to be called Romantic poetry, the notion of the geographical and conceptual antipode acts as a structuring formal principle of some of the period's most exemplary texts. With attention to how that principle operates in a range of works from Southey's early poems to Byron's Don Juan, the article offers a corrective to recent historicist treatments of Romanticism, which have at times overlooked the complex ways in which transpacific space enters into Romantic poetics and, further, how those aesthetic constructions shaped and continue to shape global political imaginings.
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2014
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Journal article
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European Romantic Review
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25
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3
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365-383
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Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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