Romanticism and Millenarianism

by Fulford, Tim

• ISBN13: 9780312240110
• ISBN10: 0312240112
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-01-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Waiting for the millennium was a major feature of British society at the endof the 18th century. But how exactly did this preoccupation shape-and how was it shaped by-the literature, art, and politics of the period we now call Romantic? These essays investigate a series of millenarians both famous and forgotten, from Coleridge to Cowper, Blake to Byron; and explore the artistic and political subcultures of radical London; the religious sects surrounding Richard Brothers and Joanna Southcott, and the poetics of feminism and Orientalism. Romanticism and Millenarianism presents an expanded and rehistoricized canon of writers and artists who shaped key debates about revolution, empire, gender, and sexuality.

Author Biography

Tim Fulford is Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. Among his books are Landscape, Liberty and Authority, Romanticism and Colonialism (co-edited with Peter J. Kitson), and Romanticism and Masculinity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
List of Illustrations	xi
List of Abbreviations	xiii
Notes on Contributors	xv
Millenarianism and the Study of Romanticism	1	(22)
Tim Fulford
Cowper's Ends	23	(14)
Adam Rounce
``To Milton's Trump'': Coleridge's Unitarian Sublime and the Miltonic Apocalypse	37	(16)
Peter J. Kitson
Romantic Apocalypses	53	(18)
John Beer
The Morning (Post) After: Apocalypse and Bathos in Coleridge's ``Fears in Solitude''	71	(16)
Michael Simpson
Pantisocracy and the Myth of the Poet	87	(16)
Nicholas Roe
Ecological Apocalypse: Privation, Alterity, and Catastrophe in the Work of Arthur Young and Thomas Robert Malthus	103	(18)
Gary Harrison
Pagodas and Pregnant Throes: Orientalism, Millenarianism and Robert Southey	121	(18)
Tim Fulford
Blake, the Apocalypse and Romantic Women Writers	139	(14)
Anne K. Mellor
The Angels of Byron and Moore: Close Encounters of Another Kind	153	(14)
Philip W. Martin
Robert Hawes and the Millenium Press: A Political Microculture of Late-Eighteenth-Century Spitalfields	167	(16)
David Worrall
Blake's Visionary Heads: Lost Drawings and a Lost Book	183	(24)
G. E. Bentley, Jr.
Word as Image in William Blake	207	(12)
Martin Butlin
The William Blake Archive: The Medium When the Millennium Is the Message	219	(16)
Morris Eaves
Robert N. Essick
Joseph Viscomi
Appendix: A Bibliography of Morton D. Paley's Studies of Romanticism	235	(6)
Tim Fulford
D. W. Dorrbecker
Index	241