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An accessible and easy-to-use scholarly guide to the literature, concepts and debates of the turbulent Romantic era. Aimed at both the undergraduate student and more experienced readers who seek a compact yet comprehensive up-to-date account of the poetry, drama and novels that characterised the Romantic period. Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- General Editors' Preface -- General Introduction -- Introduction -- What is Romanticism? -- Historical Definitions and Conceptualisations of Romanticism -- 1 Contexts: History, Politics, Culture -- British Politics 1789-1815 -- British Politics 1815-1832 -- Empire and Travel -- Feminism and the Position of Women -- Industry and Economics -- Ireland and the 'Catholic Question' -- Leisure, Fashion and Sport -- Medicine and Science -- Music -- Political Protest and Popular Radicalism -- Religion and Atheism -- Sexualities -- Slavery, Abolition and African-British Literature -- 2 Texts: Themes, Issues, Concepts -- Literary and Philosophical Key Concepts I: The First Generation Romantic Poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Smith, Robinson) -- Literary and Philosophical Key Concepts II: The Second Generation Romantic Poets (Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hemans, Landon) -- Joanna Baillie and Romantic-era Drama -- William Blake and Romantic-era Art -- Irish, Scottish and Welsh Poetry -- Medievalism, the Sublime and the Gothic -- Millenarianism -- The Novel -- 'Peasant' or Labouring-class Poets -- Reviews, Magazines and the Essay -- Satire -- 3 Criticism: Approaches, Theory, Practice -- Contemporary and Victorian Reception -- Twentieth-century Criticism from Modernism to the New Criticism -- Modern Critical Approaches I: From Deconstruction to Psychoanalytical Criticism -- Modern Critical Approaches II: From Historicism to Ecological Criticism -- Modern Critical Approaches III: Gender Criticism -- Epilogue: The Expansion of the Romantic Canon -- Chronology and Necrology -- Index.
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