A Companion to Romanticism

by Wu, Duncan

• ISBN13: 9780631218777
• ISBN10: 0631218777
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-29
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.

Author Biography

Duncan Wu is Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. His numerous publications include Romanticism: An Anthology, Second Edition (1998), Romanticism: A Critical Reader (1995), Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology (1997), an edition of William Wordsworth's The Five-Book Prelude (1997) and, with Tom Paulin, of William Hazlitt's The Plain-Speaker: Key Essays (1998), all available from Blackwell Publishers. He has collaborated with David Miall in preparing Blackwell Publishers' Romanticism: The CD-Rom and is the editor of a nine volume edition of The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt (1998).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Abbreviations

Contexts and Perspectives 1790-1830

Romanticism: The Brief History of a Concept

Preromanticism

From Revolution to Romanticism: The Historical Context from 1800

Beyond the Enlightenment: the Philosophical, Scientific, and Religious Inheritance

Britain at War: The Historical Context

Literature and Religion

The Picturesque, the Beautiful, and the Sublime

The Romantic Reader

Readings

William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Edmund Burke, Reflections Upon the Revolution in France

Charlotte Smith, The Old Manor House

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel

Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads

Dorothy Wordsworth, Journals

Joanna Baillie, A Series of Plays

William Wordsworth, The Prelude

Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin

Mary Tighe, Psyche

Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head

Walter Scott, Waverley

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

John Keats, Odes

George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound: Michael O'Neill

Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Charles Lamb, Elia

William Hazlitt, Spirit of the Age

Letitia Landon (L. E. L.), The Improvisatrice

John Clare, The Shepherd's Calendar

Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman

Genres and Modes

The Romantic Drama

The Novel

Gothic Fiction

Parody and Imitation

Travel Writing

Romantic Literary Criticism

Issues and Debates

Romanticism and Gender

Romanticism and Feminism

New Historicism

Romantic Ecology

Psychological Approaches

Dialogic Approaches

The Romantic Fragme

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