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Title A companion to Romanticism / edited by Duncan Wu
Edition First paperback edition
Published Oxford, UK : Blackwell, 1999

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Description xiv, 549 pages ; 26 cm
Series Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 1
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 1
Contents Pt. I. Contexts and Perspectives 1790-1830. 1. Romanticism: The Brief History of a Concept / Seamus Perry. 2. Preromanticism / Michael J. Tolley. 3. From Revolution to Romanticism: The History Context to 1800 / David Duff. 4. Beyond the Enlightenment: The Philosophical, Scientific and Religious Inheritance / Peter J. Kitson. 5. Britain at War: The Historical Context / Philip Shaw. 6. Literature and Religion / Mary Wedd. 7. The Picturesque, the Beautiful and the Sublime / Nicola Trott. 8. The Romantic Reader / Stephen C. Behrendt -- Pt. II. Readings. 9. William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience / Nelson Hilton. 10. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France / David Bromwich. 11. Charlotte Smith, The Old Manor House / Miranda J. Burgess. 12. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan, The Ancient Mariner and Christabel / Seamus Perry. 13. Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads / Scott McEathron. 14. Dorothy Wordsworth, Journals / Pamela Woof. 15. Joanna Baillie, A Series of Plays / Janice Patten. 16. William Wordsworth, The Prelude / Jonathan Wordsworth. 17. Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin / John Strachan. 18. Mary Tighe, Psyche / John M. Anderson. 19. Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head / Jacqueline M. Labbe. 20. Walter Scott, Waverley / Fiona Robertson. 21. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice / Beth Lau. 22. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein / John Beer. 23. John Keats, Odes / John Creaser. 24. George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan / Jane Stabler. 25. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound / Michael O'Neill. 26. Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater / Damian Walford Davies. 27. Charles Lamb, Elia / Duncan Wu. 28. William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age / Bonnie Woodbery. 29. Letitia Landon (L.E.L.), The Improvisatrice / Adam Roberts. 3. John Clare, The Shepherd's Calendar / John Lucas. 31. Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman / Adam Roberts -- Pt. III. Genres and Modes. 32. The Romantic Drama / Frederick Burwick. 33. The Novel / John Sutherland. 34. Gothic Fiction / David S. Miall. 35. Parody and Imitation / Graeme Stones. 36. Travel Writing / James A. Butler. 37. Romantic Literary Criticism / Seamus Perry -- Pt. IV. Issues and Debates. 38. Romanticism and Gender / Susan J. Wolfson. 39. Romanticism and Feminism / Elizabeth Fay. 40. New Historicism / David Simpson. 41. Romantic Ecology / Tony Pinkney. 42. Psychological Approaches / Douglas B. Wilson. 43. Dialogic Approaches / Michael James Sider. 44. The Romantic Fragment / Anne Janowitz. 45. Performative Language and Speech-act Theory / Angela Esterhammer. 46. Slavery and Romantic Writing / Alan Richardson. 47. Apocalypse and Millennium / Morton D. Paley. 48. The Romantic Imagination / Jonathan Wordsworth. 49. England and Germany / Rosemary Ashton. 50. Romantic Responses to Science / Ian Wylie. 51. Shakespeare and the Romantics / Frederick Burwick. 52. Milton and the Romantics / Nicola Trott
Summary 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 and Debates - the Companion provides students new to the subject with a vital orientation and foundation for study, and also offers senior and graduate students an important focus upon new developments and possible future directions. Contexts and perspectives vital to our understanding of the origins and evolution of the concept of Romanticism are elucidated in a section of eight introductory essays. There follow 22 readings of key texts, canonical and postcanonical, from Wordsworth's Prelude (by Johnathan Wordsworth) to Joanna Baillie's A Series of Plays (by Janice Patten) and Felicia Heman's Records of Woman (by Adams Roberts). A section on genres and modes includes Frederick on 'The Romantic Drama', John Sutherland on 'The Novel' and David Miall on 'Gothic Fiction'. In a final group of essays 15 contributors explore key issues and debates
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to Blackwell Reference Online
English
Subject English literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism -- 18th century.
English literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism -- 19th century.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and society -- History.
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History.
Romanticism -- Great Britain -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Romanticism.
Author Wu, Duncan, editor
LC no. 97000928
ISBN 0631218777
Other Titles Romanticism
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture