A companion to Romanticism /

The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey by an international collection of scholars, whose 52 specially commissioned contributions are aimed specifically at a student readership. Divided into four parts - Contexts and Perspectives 1790-1830; Readings; Genres and Modes; and Issues...

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Corporate Author: Blackwell Reference Online (Online service)
Other Authors: Wu, Duncan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
Series:Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 1.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Contexts and perspectives, 1790-1830. Romanticism : the brief history of a concept / Seamus Perry
  • Preromanticism / Michael J. Tolley
  • From Revolution to Romanticism : the historical context to 1800 / David Duff
  • Beyond the Enlightenment : the philosophical, scientific and religious inheritance / Peter J. Kitson
  • Britain at war : the historical context / Philip Shaw
  • Literature and religion / Mary Wedd
  • The picturesque, the beautiful and the sublime / Nicola Trott
  • The Romantic reader / Stephen C. Behrendt
  • pt. 2. Readings. William Blake, Songs of innocence and of experience / Nelson Hilton
  • Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France / David Bromwich
  • Charlotte Smith, The old manor house / Miranda J. Burgess
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan, The ancient mariner, and Christabel / Seamus Perry
  • Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical ballads / Scott McEathron
  • Dorothy Wordsworth, Journals / Pamela Woof
  • Joanna Baillie, A series of plays / Janice Patten
  • William Wordsworth, The prelude / Jonathan Wordsworth
  • Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin / John Strachan
  • Mary Tighe, Psyche / John M. Anderson
  • Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head / Jacqueline M. Labbe
  • Walter Scott, Waverley / Fiona Robertson
  • Jane Austen, Pride and prejudice / Beth Lau
  • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein / John Beer
  • John Keats, Odes / John Creaser
  • George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan / Jane Stabler
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus unbound / Michael O'Neill
  • Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English opium-eater / Damian Walford Davies
  • Charles Lamb, Elia / Duncan Wu
  • William Hazlitt, The spirit of the age / Bonnie Woodbery
  • Letitia Landon (L.E.L.), The improvisatrice / Adam Roberts
  • John Clare, The shepherd's calendar / John Lucas
  • Felicia Hemans, Records of woman / Adam Roberts
  • pt. 3. Genres and modes. The Romantic drama / Frederick Burwick
  • The novel / John Sutherland
  • Gothic fiction / David S. Miall
  • Parody and imitation / Graeme Stones
  • Travel writing / James A. Butler
  • Romantic literary criticism / Seamus Perry
  • pt. 4. Issues and debates. Romanticism and gender / Susan J. Wolfson
  • Romanticism and feminism / Elizabeth Fay
  • New historicism / David Simpson
  • Romantic ecology / Tony Pinkney
  • Psychological approaches / Douglas B. Wilson
  • Dialogic approaches / Michael James Sider
  • The Romantic fragment / Anne Janowitz
  • Performative language and speech-act theory / Angela Esterhammer
  • Slavery and Romantic writing / Alan Richardson
  • Apocalypse and millennium / Morton D. Paley
  • The Romantic imagination / Jonathan Wordsworth
  • England and Germany / Rosemary Ashton
  • Romantic responses to science / Ian Wylie
  • Shakespeare and the Romantics / Frederick Burwick
  • Milton and the Romantics / Nicola Trott.