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Synopsis
A new collection of 12 critical essays on John Clare by various authors, edited by John Goodridge (Nottingham Trent University) and Simon Kovesi (Oxford Brookes University). Includes Introduction, a 'Chronological Survey of Clare Criticism (1970-2000)', Index and 2 black and white images. Paperback, A5 size, xxiv + 264 pages. Colour cover, photography by artist Andy Goldsworthy.
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As interest in John Clare increases, so scholarly and critical work has expanded enormously in eth last decade. The 12 new critical essays in this collection show some of the exciting new directions in which Clare studies have been developing. Moving away from the old idea of Clare as a tragically isolated victim, several critics look at the often ingenious ways that Clare devised to create literary communities - imagined and real - in which to situate his poetry. There is a marked interest in how Clare was, and is, presented to the world: through biography and autobiography, through the 'spin' by which he was presented as a 'peasant poet' in the 1820s, and through modern methods of editing and presentation. His relationships to both Romanticism and to the 'self-taught' peasant poet tradition are examined. Two of the most important areas of Clare?s mature work, the Midsummer Cushion project and the Byron poems of 1841, are given fresh critical attention. Many of eth contributors are new scholars, and their work is set alongside new material from senior scholars such as Jonathan Bate, Richard Cronin and P.M.S. Dawson.
About the Author
John Goodridge is Reader in English at Nottingham Trent University, Editor of the 'John Clare Society Journal' and currently General Editor of the forthcoming 'Labouring-Class Poets, 1700-1900' (6 vols., Pickering and Chatto). Simon Kovesi is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at Oxford Brookes University. He has edited 2 selections of Clare's poetry - Love Poems (1999) and Flower Poems (2001).
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- PublisherJohn Clare Society
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0952254166
- ISBN 13 9780952254164
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
- EditorGoodridge John, Kovesi Simon
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