Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and...
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Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and critical issues of this crucial era. This fully updated second edition includes:Discussion of a broad range of writers including William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, H.D. Thoreau, Frederick DouglasA new chapter on American RomanticismDiscussion of the romantic sublime or romantic imagination
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Front Cover; Romanticism; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Preface to Second Edition; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Enlightenment or Romantic?; Humanitarianism; Nature; Enlightenment or sensibility; 2. Constructions of the term 'Romantic'; Politics and literature; Poststructuralism and Romanticism; 3. Enlightenment and Romantic; Politics and spirituality; Conservative novelists; Historicism and Romanticism; New radicalism; Gender and the sublime; Ecocriticism in Romantic studies; Romanticisms; 4. American Romanticism; Key reading; Bibliography; Index;
