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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Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. :
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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.