Romantic Writings

by Bygrave,Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780415135788
• ISBN10: 0415135788
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-11-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Romantic Writingslooks at the body of poetry and prose written during one of the most significant European literary movements, between 1780-1830. Providing a unique critical anthology of writings by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Keats and Shelley, author Stephen Bygrave also includes lesser-known texts by women writers such as Mary Alcock, Joanna Baillie, Maria Edgeworth, Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Topical discussions of issues such as the notion of the Romantic artist and colonialism and "the exotic", are combined with practical exercises in each chapter for analyzing key passages of text and criticism, making this a useful and reader-friendly introduction to the subject.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Romantic poems and contexts - Stephen Bygrave

Versions of British Romantic writing - Stephen Bygrave

Defences of poetry - Graham Allen

Women writers and readers - Susan Matthews

Reading The Prelude - Stephen Bygrave

Romantic verse narrative - Graham Allen

Reading Byron - Stephen Bygrave

Women poets 1780-1830 - Amanda Gilroy

Romantic allegory - Graham Allen

Colonialism and the exotic - Nigel Leask

Reading Kleist and Hoffmann - Richard Allen, Conclusion - Stephen Bygrave

Romantic poetry: The I altered - Stuart Curran

The oriental renaissance - Raymond Schwab

The Corsair - Lord Byron, The uncanny - Sigmund Freud

The concept of Romanticism in literary history - Rene Wellek

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