Romanticism

Despite their desire to rise above the so-called 'age of personality' and personal attacks, Romantic-era figures such as Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Sydney Owenson, and the explorer John Ross became enmeshed in public feuds with the Edinburgh Review and the ..

First published in 1967. These essays illustrate the movement of ideas in the literary and artistic history of the later part of the nineteenth century. The subjects dealt with are diverse though interrelated. All the contributors exemplify the changing thought of the period from Romanticism, throug..

First published in 1967. These essays illustrate the movement of ideas in the literary and artistic history of the later part of the nineteenth century. The subjects dealt with are diverse though interrelated. All the contributors exemplify the changing thought of the period from Romanticism, throug..

In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists, Hall claims the creation of the National Trust in the United Kingdom and the National Parks in the United States were both shaped by literature. Central to Hall's project are links among Gilbert White, William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo ..

Provides a valuable insight into the condition of Britain in the early part of the nineteenth century. It includes original documents from a range of disciplines...

First published in 1999. The work of five influential figures in twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual history forms the basis of this engaging interdisciplinary study of romantic science. In this book, Martin Halliwell constructs a tradition of romantic science by indicating points of theore..

 The essays in this volume represent the best of recent critical writing on Romantic literature, and include contributions from critics such as Paul de Man, Mary Jacobus, Marjorie Levinson and Jerome Christensen. Through the course of their analyses they offer answers to perhaps the most essential q..

 The essays in this volume represent the best of recent critical writing on Romantic literature, and include contributions from critics such as Paul de Man, Mary Jacobus, Marjorie Levinson and Jerome Christensen. Through the course of their analyses they offer answers to perhaps the most essential q..

First published in 2006. Exploring how discourse is figured in the texts of key European Romantic authors such as Wackenroder, Coleridge, Byron and Hugo, this volume offers nuanced readings of the under-explored syntactic, semantic, and ideological structures of Romantic works. The volume is organiz..

First published in 1981.The primary purpose of this book is to serve as an introduction to writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. An original and highly stimulated study, this book will appeal to all those who are dissatisfied with the conventional categories into which write..

Exploring the intense relationship between Romantic literature and Methodism, Helen Boyles argues that writers from both movements display an ambivalent attitude towards the expression of deep emotional and spiritual experience. Boyles takes up the disparaging characterization of William Wordsworth ..

Covering the entire field of Romanticism from its eighteenth-century origins in the writing of William Cowper to late-twentieth-century manifestations in the work of Wallace Stevens, this collection is an original and much-needed intervention in Romantic studies, bringing together the contextual awa..