A Handbook of Romanticism Studies

by Faflak, Joel; Wright, Julia M.

• ISBN13: 9781444334968
• ISBN10: 1444334964
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Handbook to Romanticism Studies is an accessible and indispensible resource providing students and scholars with a rich array of historical and up-to-date critical and theoretical contexts for the study of Romanticism. Focuses on British Romanticism while also addressing continental and transatlantic Romanticism and earlier periods Utilizes keywords such as imagination, sublime, poetics, philosophy, race, historiography, and visual culture as points of access to the study of Romanticism and the theoretical concerns and the culture of the period Explores topics central to Romanticism studies and the critical trends of the last thirty years

Author Biography

Joel Faflak is Associate Professor of English and Theory at the University of Western Ontario. He is author of Romantic Psychoanalysis: The Burden, of the Mystery (2007), co-author of Revelation and Knowledge (2011) and editor of Sanity, Madness, Transformation: The Psyche of Romanticism. (2005). Julia M. Wright is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University. She is the author of Blake, Nationalism and the Politics of Alienation (2004) arid Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2007) and the editor of Irish Literature 1750-1900: An. Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) and the 2-volume A Companion to Irish Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Aesthetics and Media	p. 17
Imagination	p. 19
Sensibility	p. 37
Sublime	p. 55
Periodicals	p. 69
Visual Culture	p. 87
Theories of Literature	p. 105
Author	p. 107
Reader	p. 125
Poetics	p. 143
Narrative	p. 159
Drama	p. 177
Gothic	p. 195
Satire	p. 213
Ideologies and Institutions	p. 225
Historiography	p. 227
Ideology	p. 245
Nation and Empire	p. 259
Class	p. 277
Race	p. 289
Gender and Sexuality	p. 307
Disciplinary Intersections	p. 325
Philosophy	p. 327
Religion	p. 339
Science	p. 357
Medicine	p. 375
Psychology	p. 391
Index	p. 409
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