This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of British Romantic literature and an authoritative guide to all aspects of the movement including its historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts, and its connections with the literature and thought of other countries. All the major Romantic writers are covered alongside lesser known writers.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Part I: Historical Phases
- 1: Nick Groom: Romanticism before 1789
- 2: Jon Mee: The Revolutionary Decade
- 3: Simon Bainbridge: The New Century: 1800-1815
- 4: Kelvin Everest: Post-War Romanticism
- 5: Angela Esterhammer: The 1820s and Beyond
- Part II: Region and Nation
- 6: Fiona Stafford: England and Englishness
- 7: Penny Fielding: Scotland and the North
- 8: Mary-Ann Constantine: Wales and the West
- 9: Jim Kelly: Ireland and Union
- Part III: Hierarchies
- 10: Michael Bradshaw: Romantic Generations
- 11: Brian Goldberg: Poetry and Social Class
- 12: Gary Kelly: The Spectrum of Fiction
- 13: Anne K. Mellor: Gender Boundaries
- 14: Susan Manly: Literature for Children
- Part IV: Legislation
- 15: David Worrall: Freedom of Speech
- 16: Gillian Russell: The Regulation of Theatres
- 17: Anthony Howe: Poetic Defences and Manifestos
- 18: William Christie: Critical Judgement and the Reviewing Profession
- 19: Victoria Myers: Trial Literature
- Part V: Cognition
- 20: Thomas Keymer: The Subjective Turn
- 21: Noel Jackson: Literature and the Senses
- 22: Sharon Ruston: 'High' Romanticism: Literature and Drugs
- 23: Catherine Jones: Writer-Physicians
- Part VI: Composition
- 24: Erik Simpson: Orality and Improvisation
- 25: Jane Stabler: Revision and Self-Citation
- 26: Beth Lau: Intertextual Dialogue
- 27: Pamela Clemit: Letters and Journals
- Part VII: Publication
- 28: Paul Keen: Book-Making
- 29: Michael Gamer: Oeuvre-Making and Canon-Formation
- 30: Tom Mole: Celebrity and Anonymity
- 31: Felicity James: Romantic Readers
- 32: Lynda Pratt: Non-Publication
- Part VIII: Language
- 33: Jane Hodson: Literary Uses of Dialect
- 34: Judith Thompson: Romantic Oratory
- 35: Michael Rossington: Creative Translation
- 36: Stephen Behrendt: The Ineffable
- Part IX: Aesthetics
- 37: Andrew Bennett: The Romantic Lexicon
- 38: Tim Milnes: Literature and Philosophy
- 39: Gregory Dart: Practical Criticism
- 40: Sophie Thomas: Word and Image
- 41: Kirsteen McCue: The Culture of Song
- Part X: Imports and Exports
- 42: Nicholas Halmi: The Greco-Roman Revival
- 43: James Watt: Orientalism and Hebraism
- 44: James Vigus: Continental Romanticism in Britain
- 45: Patrick Vincent: British Romantics Abroad
- 46: Fiona Robertson: Transatlantic Engagements