Romanticism An Oxford Guide
, by Roe, NicholasNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780199258406 | 0199258406
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 2/24/2005
This uniquely comprehensive and wide-ranging guide to Romantic literature presents forty-six newly commissioned chapters from an international team of contributors, both long-established scholars and cutting-edge academics. It combines an introduction to the literary and historical contexts of Romanticism with material on critical and theoretical approaches and detailed readings of Romantic texts. The volume is divided into four parts: "Romantic Orientations," "Reading Romanticism," "Romantic Forms," and "Romantic Afterlives." The last part considers the influence of Romanticism on later writers and on contemporary culture.
Nicholas Roe is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews. He has published extensively on Wordsworth and Coleridge and he is the author of John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (OUP, 1998).
List of illustrations | p. xxiii |
List of contributors | p. xxiv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Events | p. 1 |
Then and now | p. 2 |
Romantic history to Romantic literature | p. 4 |
Chronology | p. 6 |
Wordsworth takes over | p. 7 |
Romantic inheritances | p. 8 |
Everything and nothing | p. 8 |
Vanishings | p. 9 |
Changes | p. 10 |
Now and then | p. 10 |
Romantic orientations | p. 13 |
The historical context | p. 15 |
Revolution | p. 15 |
War | p. 17 |
Nationalism | p. 20 |
Empire and slavery | p. 22 |
Democracy, protest, and reform | p. 23 |
Further reading | p. 25 |
The literary background | p. 27 |
The sublime | p. 27 |
Sensibility | p. 29 |
Shakespeare | p. 31 |
Satire | p. 33 |
The south | p. 35 |
Further reading | p. 36 |
Classical inheritances | p. 38 |
The rise of historical criticism | p. 39 |
Romantic Hellenism | p. 41 |
Romantic pastoral | p. 45 |
Further reading | p. 48 |
Sensibility | p. 49 |
Cultural change | p. 50 |
Philosophy and science | p. 51 |
Politics | p. 52 |
An international movement | p. 54 |
Gender | p. 55 |
Poetry | p. 56 |
The novel | p. 58 |
Further reading | p. 59 |
Web link | p. 60 |
The visual arts and music | p. 62 |
British art and Romanticism | p. 64 |
John Constable and the characterization of nature | p. 66 |
William Blake's interdisciplinary art | p. 68 |
J. M. W. Turner and the directions of Romantic art | p. 70 |
The caricature print | p. 71 |
Some notes on sculpture | p. 72 |
British music | p. 73 |
'Popular' music | p. 74 |
Further reading | p. 75 |
Print culture and the book trade | p. 77 |
Radical publishing | p. 78 |
New books | p. 81 |
Libraries | p. 83 |
Cheap print | p. 85 |
Newspapers and periodicals | p. 85 |
The reprint trade | p. 86 |
Reading and writing: a case history | p. 86 |
Readers | p. 87 |
Further reading | p. 88 |
Science | p. 90 |
Geology | p. 91 |
Botany | p. 92 |
Joseph Priestley and Humphry Davy | p. 93 |
Medicine | p. 96 |
Race | p. 97 |
Astronomy | p. 98 |
Technology | p. 99 |
'Scientist' | p. 99 |
Further reading | p. 100 |
Philosophy and religion | p. 102 |
Immanuel Kant | p. 103 |
Schleiermacher and the experience of religion | p. 104 |
Beyond understanding: Coleridge on the imagination | p. 106 |
Shelley: after Jupiter | p. 108 |
Enthusiasm: the witness of the spirit | p. 109 |
Further reading | p. 112 |
England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales | p. 114 |
Crossing borders | p. 116 |
The influence of England | p. 118 |
The power of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales | p. 121 |
Further reading | p. 123 |
Europe | p. 126 |
The continental scene-Germany | p. 128 |
France | p. 130 |
Spain and Italy | p. 131 |
Poland and Russia | p. 133 |
Family likenesses and the unity of opposites | p. 134 |
Further reading | p. 136 |
Easts | p. 137 |
The great map of mankind | p. 138 |
Orientalism: theory and history | p. 138 |
Eighteenth-century orientalism and Sir William Jones | p. 140 |
Footnotes | p. 142 |
Desire and quest romance | p. 144 |
Oriental infections | p. 146 |
Further reading | p. 147 |
Americas | p. 149 |
The promise of the new | p. 150 |
British Romanticism in America | p. 150 |
Romantic exploration | p. 151 |
American utopias | p. 152 |
Transcendentalism and its antagonists | p. 154 |
New World Gothic | p. 156 |
Encountering others | p. 158 |
History and romance | p. 159 |
Further reading | p. 161 |
Reading Romanticism | p. 163 |
New Historicism | p. 165 |
Definitions, origins, and problems | p. 166 |
The characteristics of current New Historicism | p. 167 |
A short backwards history of Romantic New Historicism | p. 171 |
Reading: William Wordsworth, 'Tintern Abbey' | p. 176 |
Further reading | p. 180 |
Feminism | p. 182 |
History | p. 182 |
Themes | p. 185 |
Reading: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice | p. 193 |
Further reading | p. 197 |
Ecology | p. 199 |
Ecological approaches to British Romantic literature | p. 200 |
The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge | p. 201 |
Green language: Robert Bloomfield and John Clare | p. 203 |
The return of the nightingale: Charlotte Smith and John Keats | p. 205 |
The end of nature: William Blake, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron | p. 207 |
The Romantic origins of environmentalism | p. 209 |
Reading: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere' | p. 211 |
Further reading | p. 216 |
Psychoanalysis | p. 219 |
Knowledge | p. 220 |
Desire | p. 223 |
Fantasy | p. 225 |
Self | p. 227 |
Reading: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus | p. 230 |
Further reading | p. 234 |
Post-colonialism | p. 237 |
What does 'post-colonial' mean? | p. 239 |
Slavery and the Romantic imagination | p. 241 |
Bringing slavery home | p. 243 |
Domesticity and empire | p. 246 |
Reading: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | p. 249 |
Further reading | p. 254 |
Formalism | p. 257 |
Were the Romantics formalists? | p. 258 |
Form and power: the case of the sonnet | p. 261 |
The Coleridgean solution | p. 264 |
Readings | p. 265 |
Further reading | p. 271 |
Romantic forms | p. 273 |
Romantic forms: an introduction | p. 275 |
Romantic epic (and a note on Romantic fragments) | p. 276 |
Drama | p. 279 |
Lyric | p. 281 |
Poetic narrative, including romance | p. 283 |
Gender and genre in Romantic poetry | p. 285 |
Readings | p. 286 |
Further reading | p. 290 |
The sonnet | p. 292 |
The sonnet form and its development | p. 293 |
The sonnet revival | p. 294 |
The sonnet, sensibility, and the self | p. 296 |
Friendship and the heart | p. 298 |
The public voice of liberty | p. 299 |
Strength and stillness | p. 301 |
Readings | p. 303 |
Further reading | p. 309 |
Web link | p. 309 |
Lyric | p. 310 |
Broadening possibilities | p. 311 |
The resonant lyre | p. 311 |
Language in action: lyric as drama | p. 313 |
Vision quests | p. 315 |
Representing the self | p. 318 |
Lyric communities | p. 320 |
Readings | p. 323 |
Further reading | p. 330 |
Epic | p. 332 |
What is an epic? | p. 333 |
A short history of epic | p. 334 |
Epic revival | p. 335 |
Diversity | p. 337 |
Gender | p. 338 |
Politics | p. 339 |
Ambivalence | p. 341 |
Reading: John Keats, Hyperion | p. 345 |
Further reading | p. 347 |
Narrative poetry | p. 350 |
Narrative revival | p. 350 |
Byron's poetic 'romaunt' | p. 353 |
'The Italian strain' | p. 354 |
Leigh Hunt's The Story of Rimini | p. 357 |
The Orient | p. 358 |
Reading: John Keats, Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil | p. 362 |
Further reading | p. 367 |
The novel | p. 368 |
Origins and directions | p. 371 |
Genre and subgenres | p. 375 |
The narrator in the Romantic-period novel | p. 377 |
Readings | p. 381 |
Further reading | p. 387 |
Satire | p. 390 |
Novels and prose satires | p. 390 |
The theatre | p. 393 |
Reviews and pamphlets | p. 394 |
Graphic prints | p. 397 |
Poetry | p. 398 |
Reading: Lord Byron, Don Juan | p. 401 |
Further reading | p. 406 |
Web link | p. 407 |
Romantic drama | p. 409 |
The repertoire | p. 411 |
Joanna Baillie's Plays on the Passions | p. 412 |
The pursuit of novelty | p. 413 |
The theatres | p. 415 |
Star turns | p. 416 |
Reading: Elizabeth Craven, The Miniature Picture | p. 418 |
Further reading | p. 423 |
Essays, newspapers, and magazines | p. 426 |
Newspapers | p. 427 |
Magazines | p. 429 |
Reviews | p. 431 |
The periodical essay | p. 433 |
Reading: William Hazlitt, 'My First Acquaintance with Poets' | p. 437 |
Further reading | p. 443 |
Biography and autobiography | p. 445 |
Social, economic, and cultural context | p. 446 |
Individualism, natural rights, and life-writing | p. 448 |
Biography: lives in contention | p. 449 |
Autobiography: confession, self-exploration, self-making | p. 452 |
The centrality of life-writing in the Romantic period | p. 454 |
Reading: William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | p. 456 |
Further reading | p. 460 |
Romance | p. 463 |
The origins of romance | p. 464 |
The progress of romance | p. 467 |
The Romanticism in romance | p. 470 |
Readings | p. 475 |
Further reading | p. 480 |
Gothic | p. 482 |
Gothic nationalism | p. 482 |
Gothic aesthetic | p. 483 |
Gothic (anti-)modernity | p. 484 |
Gothic (anti-)rationality | p. 485 |
Gothic taboos | p. 487 |
Gothic genres | p. 488 |
Gothic criticism | p. 489 |
Readings | p. 492 |
Further reading | p. 499 |
Web links | p. 500 |
The fragment | p. 502 |
Fragments, fashion, and fakery | p. 503 |
The ruin and the unfinished | p. 504 |
Aesthetic and antiquarian contexts | p. 507 |
Responses | p. 508 |
Form or genre? | p. 510 |
The afterlife of the Romantic fragment | p. 512 |
Reading: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Kubla Khan' | p. 514 |
Further reading | p. 519 |
Forgeries | p. 521 |
Poetic forgeries | p. 522 |
Medical hoaxes | p. 524 |
Travel lies | p. 526 |
Exotic others | p. 528 |
Reading: John Hatfield and the Lake Poets | p. 531 |
Further reading | p. 536 |
Non-fictional prose | p. 538 |
Aesthetics and politics: politics and aesthetics | p. 541 |
Edmund Burke's Reflections | p. 541 |
Responses to Burke | p. 542 |
Reading discursively | p. 545 |
Readings | p. 548 |
Further reading | p. 553 |
Travel writing | p. 555 |
A 'tour-writing and tour-publishing age' | p. 557 |
Explorers: the business of scientific discovery | p. 560 |
Survivors, missionaries, and other travellers | p. 562 |
Romanticism and Romantic-era travel writing | p. 562 |
Travel writing and Romantic-era literature | p. 564 |
Reading: Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa | p. 567 |
Further reading | p. 572 |
Letters, journals, and diaries | p. 574 |
Popular myths and images | p. 575 |
Critical problems | p. 577 |
Letter-writing | p. 579 |
Journals, diaries, and notebooks | p. 580 |
Readings | p. 583 |
Further reading | p. 588 |
Romantic afterlives | p. 591 |
Literary criticism and theory | p. 593 |
The fascination of what's natural | p. 593 |
Feeling and wonder | p. 595 |
Ordinary language | p. 598 |
Egotism and imagination | p. 600 |
Current questions | p. 603 |
Further reading | p. 605 |
Poetry | p. 607 |
Plain style: Robert Frost | p. 608 |
Wordsworth and Anglo-American modernism | p. 609 |
The Anglophone world | p. 611 |
On his native shores | p. 612 |
Two second selves: Charles Tomlinson and Elizabeth Bishop | p. 613 |
Recompenses | p. 616 |
Further reading | p. 618 |
The nineteenth- and twentieth-century novel | p. 620 |
The Brontes | p. 621 |
The American tradition: Moby-Dick | p. 623 |
D. H. Lawrence | p. 626 |
Further reading | p. 629 |
Film | p. 631 |
The Romantic poem on screen | p. 632 |
Romantic film biography | p. 633 |
Films on the birth of a Romantic classic | p. 635 |
Filming the origins of Romanticism | p. 638 |
Further reading | p. 640 |
Web links | p. 640 |
The theatre | p. 642 |
Upstaging Prometheus | p. 643 |
Lord, Byron | p. 646 |
Hideous stage progeny: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus | p. 648 |
Afterlife now: Romanticism unbound; or 'cut' | p. 650 |
Further reading | p. 652 |
The idea of the author | p. 654 |
Lives of the poets | p. 655 |
Inventing the author | p. 657 |
Posterity | p. 658 |
Genius, originality, inspiration | p. 659 |
Craze | p. 661 |
Further reading | p. 663 |
Modernism and postmodernity | p. 665 |
Modernist debts to Romanticism | p. 666 |
Modern Romantics | p. 668 |
Later Romantics | p. 669 |
Modern constructions of Romanticism | p. 670 |
Postmodernity and postmodernism | p. 671 |
Further reading | p. 674 |
Politics | p. 675 |
A Romantic ideology? | p. 675 |
A green Romanticism? | p. 676 |
Radicals or reactionaries? | p. 677 |
Nationalism, imperialism, and orientalism | p. 680 |
Romanticism and racism | p. 682 |
Further reading | p. 684 |
Sciences | p. 686 |
Normal science | p. 687 |
Geology | p. 688 |
Astronomy | p. 691 |
Sciences of life | p. 692 |
Further reading | p. 694 |
Environmentalism | p. 696 |
The Romantic legacy | p. 696 |
Industrial society and its discontents | p. 697 |
Romantic consumerism, green consumerism | p. 701 |
Ecological criticism | p. 702 |
Further reading | p. 706 |
Romanticism in the electronic age | p. 708 |
Text analysis | p. 709 |
Digital editions | p. 711 |
Text encoding | p. 714 |
Romanticism on the Internet | p. 714 |
Learning how | p. 716 |
Further reading | p. 717 |
Web Links | p. 718 |
Index | p. 721 |
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