English Romantic Irony

FAIN: FT-12940-76

Anne K. Mellor
UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)

To explore the various structural and rhetorical devices used by Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Emily Bronte, Carlyle, Browning, Carroll, Woolf and Yeats to create and de-create simultaneously a mythic order or symbolic language. Romantic irony may be defined as a philosophical vision of the universe as grounded on becoming rather being. Works of romantic irony engage in an artistic process of simultaneous creation and de-creation.