Romantic Writings

by Bygrave, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780415135771
• ISBN10: 041513577X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-11-01
• 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

Preface
Introduction
Romantic poems and contexts	p. 3
Versions of British Romantic writing	p. 47
Defences of poetry	p. 71
Women writers and readers	p. 91
Reading The Prelude	p. 115
Romantic verse narrative	p. 139
Reading Byron	p. 161
Women poets 1780-1830	p. 183
Romantic allegory	p. 205
Colonialism and the exotic	p. 227
Reading Kleist and Hoffmann	p. 251
Conclusion	p. 269
Romantic poetry: The I altered	p. 279
The oriental renaissance	p. 294
The Corsair	p. 303
The uncanny	p. 318
The concept of Romanticism in literary history	p. 326
Bibliography	p. 337
Acknowledgements	p. 340
Index	p. 343
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