The Romantic Essay and the City

On Essays ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 167-184
Author(s):  
Gregory Dart
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
William Cowper ◽  
William Hazlitt ◽  
Personal Reminiscence ◽  
Controlled Conditions ◽  
Leigh Hunt ◽  
Familiar Essay ◽  
The City

This chapter explores the ambivalence of the Romantic familiar essay form towards the city by looking at the two main literary tributaries that fed into it—the current of self-consciously pro-metropolitan prose writing that had been inaugurated by Steele and Addison, and the more anti-commercial tradition of retirement poetry epitomized by William Cowper and the Lake poets. It looks at the way in which Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, and Charles Lamb in particular strove to bury their continuing misgivings about the polis as a centre of commercial rapacity and unruly popular politics in celebrations of the city as being, under certain controlled conditions, a precious haven of imaginative activity, personal reminiscence, and literary tradition. Their aim, even if it was never quite articulated as such, was to turn the Romantic periodical essay into a prose medium that was as sensitive as Wordsworth’s poetry to the ravages of recent historical change, while maintaining, in the end, a more progressive and forward-looking attitude to it.

scholarly journals City image as a personification of female nature in “The Dead [City of] Bruges” by Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-109
Author(s):  
Marina A. Kozlova
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
City Image ◽  
Image System ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The City

The paper is devoted to the peculiarities of the creation of the personified image of the city in the novel “The Dead [City of] Bruges” by Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach, which, according to the author himself, represents not only the protagonist, but also its organising force. The Belgian author draws on an earlier literary tradition, according to which the city appears to the poet's mind in the form of a woman. The image of the city is built on the combination and interaction of different elements, among which those that are considered in the article: the theme of duality, the motif of reflection, which becomes the main constructional principle of the image system of the novel, as well as references to mythological and literary archetypes. The theme of duplicity is directly connected with the category of correspondence or analogy, which is central to Rodenbach's oeuvre and forms a peculiar poetics of reflection and determines the choice of expressive means. Dualism is associated with a hostile, dark and demonic force, contrasted with the "holy" and infallible feminine ideal, embodied in the image of the perished beloved, who is also a prototype of the city. The poeticised image of the city is related to archetypical figures that are typical of European symbolism – first of all, Ophelia, but also Orpheus and Narcissus, all this through an appeal to the symbolism of water and the otherworld, then through the main character's attempt to overcome the border between worlds and create a new myth about love that defeats death.

PRINT CULTURE AND ITS PUBLICS: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF BOOKSTORES IN TEHRAN, 1900–1950

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afshin Marashi
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Political Empowerment ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

AbstractThis article investigates the evolution of print culture and commerce in Tehran during the first half of the 20th century. The first section examines technological changes that facilitated the commercialization of texts and then details the history of early print entrepreneurs in the Tehran bazaar. The second section examines the expansion of the book trade between the 1920s and 1940s, tracing the emergence of modern bookstores in a rapidly changing Tehran. I argue that patterns of change in print commerce between 1900 and 1950 contributed to the emergence of mass culture by midcentury. This new mass culture involved the social and political empowerment of a diversity of new reading publics in the city, and enabled the emergence of new forms of popular politics.

The Marais

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Reader
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Andre Malraux ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

This book explores the history and the vicissitudes of one of Paris’s most extraordinary areas, the Marais. Centrally located on the Right Bank, this neighbourhood was from the Middle Ages through to the eighteenth century the most fashionable in the city, headquarters of the nobility who endowed it with resplendent architecture. The Court’s move to Versailles and the Revolution of 1789 led to the quartier’s decline, so that in the nineteenth century and the earlier part of the twentieth it was in parlous shape, its fine buildings run down and often severely overcrowded. It escaped wholesale destruction in the post-War frenzy of modernization largely thanks to André Malraux, who as Culture Minister fostered the restoration of the area. Malraux’s efforts were, however, not immune from criticism, sometimes seen as a form of socio-economic cleansing with concomitant fossilization, and thus emblematic of the problems faced by a city which has always been torn between the preservation of its past and the need to adapt to social and historical change. The book focuses particularly on literary, cinematic and other artistic reproductions of the quartier, of which it attempts to provide a comprehensive overview, and foregrounds particularly its importance as home to and base of two highly significant minorities – the Jewish and the gay communities.

O literaturze i życiu literackim Wolnego Miasta Krakowa: 1816-1846

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zenon Jagoda
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
False Information ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Polish Culture ◽  
Time Frames ◽  
The City

The book presents literary phenomena of the Free City of Krakow, a political formation created by the Congress of Vienna, remaining under the protectorate of the Holly Alliance. The time frames of the historical and literary narration of the work correspond to the period which marks the existence of the Free City of Krakow (the Republic of Krakow). In 1816-1846, a change of literary epochs occurred in the Krakow region and the most valuable part of the Krakow literature of the Romanticism was created. The book arose from the need of systematising of knowledge about this literature, correction of false information, obliterating of unknown areas, reconsideration of a prevailing opinion about importance of the Krakow centre in the literature of the Late Enlightenment and Romanticism in the Polish culture. A literary process within the discussed period has been divided by the author into four phases (1816-1828, 1828-1830, 1831-1840, 1841-1846). This periodisation functions as a compositional factor of the book. Beside literature, the author presents broadly literary life of the city (periodicals and printing, institutions, literary communication, as well as literary tradition and awareness, social circles of literature reception), and set of conditions and circumstances from the scope of social culture, customs, politics, accompanying the literary life.

The Charge of William Cowper Esq; To the Grand-Jury of the City and Liberty of Westminster, &c. At the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, held October the 7th, 1719. in Westminster-Hall. London: Printed for Charles King at the Judge's-Head in Westminster-Hall. 1719

1992 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 127-136
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Grand Jury ◽  
William Cowper ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City

You that are Sworn to serve upon the Grand Inquest, for the Body of this City and Liberty!The Laws of England are, undoubtedly, as the great Oracle of them, my Lord Coke, remarks, in the best, [6] most exquisite, and peculiar manner that could have been, framed and adapted for the Government of this Realm; and the frequent Occasions they give us, of Meeting, as now we do, are none of the least Proofs of the Excellency of them; the Reason thereof being for the quick and ready Distribution of Justice, which is the Soul of it, and without which it loses its very Nature.

scholarly journals Po Mannie i Viscontim. Śmierć w Wenecji we współczesnej literaturze polskiej, rosyjskiej i ukraińskiej

2018 ◽  
pp. 219-230
Author(s):  
Olga Siemońska
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
General Dimension ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Death In Venice ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City ◽  
Individual Dimension

The article analyzes three pieces of Russian, Ukrainian and Polish contemporary literature on the subject of “the death in Venice”. The authors of the works, by referring to the literary tradition, consciously strengthen the myth of the "the city of death". In their interpretations this myth has two dimensions: the general and the individual. In the general dimension the vision of a dying beauty and fading power encourages reflection on the transitory nature of civilization. The individual dimension is based on the sense of identification of a dying character with a "dying" city, i.e. Venice.

scholarly journals SPATIAL RESOURCE OF THE TERRITORY OF THE CITY OF CHERNIVTSI: CHRONOLOGICAL AND CHORAL ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
M. Zaiachuk ◽  
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O. Zaiachuk ◽  
A. Zaiachuk ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Center ◽  
Demographic Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Further Development ◽  
City Village

The purpose of the research is to analyze the spatial resource of the territory of the suburbanization zone of the city of Chernivtsi. In the article, the dynamics of changes in the population of the urban residents of Chernivtsi region was analyzed. The indicator of the voltage of the demographic impact field was calculated and was found that as a result of active urbanization zone was formed, for each settlement of which there is a large, medium or low demographic voltage. The power of influence depends primarily on the population in the city because the larger is the number of residents, the greater will be the zone of its influence, which is considered as a vector, directed from the center of the city. Outside the designated suburbanization zone the voltage of demographic influence does not disappear, although with the decreasing of the distance from the city of Chernivtsi to an interval of approximately 50-55 km it is heading to zero. The cartographic model of the field of the demographic voltage of the city of Chernivtsi has been developed, where the boundaries of the suburbanization zone are clearly distinguished. Since the 90s the suburban zone of the city of Chernivtsi has been characterized by active changes, and today it is heterogeneous with uneven development. The main trends of modern changes in the suburban zone of the city of Chernivtsi, factors and relations with the regional center were also revealed. The boundaries of formation of the Chernivtsi Amalgamated territorial community (hromada) on the basis of a pronounced mutual influence “city-village”, “village-city” have been confirmed. The historical change of compactness of the city of Chernivtsi for the period 1861- 2020 years was traced, where the analysis of calculated indices of the territory of Chernivtsi indicates the maximum compactness of the territory of Chernivtsi in 1861. With the further development of the city, the area of the territory increased and the shape of it gradually loses compactness. The rationality of the use of urban space is a prerequisite for the sustainable development of the urban settlement because the time spent on moving the passenger and cargo flows is minimized, and the connections become closer and more intensive.

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