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| List of illustrations | |
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| List of contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Events | |
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| Then and now | |
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| Romantic history to Romantic literature | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Wordsworth takes over | |
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| Romantic inheritances | |
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| Everything and nothing | |
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| Vanishings | |
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| Changes | |
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| Now and then | |
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| Romantic orientations | |
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| The historical context | |
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| Revolution | |
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| War | |
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| Nationalism | |
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| Empire and slavery | |
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| Democracy, protest, and reform | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The literary background | |
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| The sublime | |
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| Sensibility | |
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| Shakespeare | |
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| Satire | |
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| The south | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Classical inheritances | |
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| The rise of historical criticism | |
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| Romantic Hellenism | |
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| Romantic pastoral | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Sensibility | |
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| Cultural change | |
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| Philosophy and science | |
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| Politics | |
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| An international movement | |
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| Gender | |
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| Poetry | |
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| The novel | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Web link | |
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| The visual arts and music | |
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| British art and Romanticism | |
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| John Constable and the characterization of nature | |
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| William Blake's interdisciplinary art | |
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| J. M. W. Turner and the directions of Romantic art | |
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| The caricature print | |
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| Some notes on sculpture | |
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| British music | |
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| 'Popular' music | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Print culture and the book trade | |
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| Radical publishing | |
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| New books | |
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| Libraries | |
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| Cheap print | |
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| Newspapers and periodicals | |
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| The reprint trade | |
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| Reading and writing: a case history | |
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| Readers | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Science | |
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| Geology | |
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| Botany | |
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| Joseph Priestley and Humphry Davy | |
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| Medicine | |
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| Race | |
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| Astronomy | |
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| Technology | |
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| 'Scientist' | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Philosophy and religion | |
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| Immanuel Kant | |
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| Schleiermacher and the experience of religion | |
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| Beyond understanding: Coleridge on the imagination | |
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| Shelley: after Jupiter | |
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| Enthusiasm: the witness of the spirit | |
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| Further reading | |
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| England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales | |
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| Crossing borders | |
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| The influence of England | |
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| The power of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Europe | |
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| The continental scene-Germany | |
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| France | |
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| Spain and Italy | |
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| Poland and Russia | |
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| Family likenesses and the unity of opposites | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Easts | |
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| The great map of mankind | |
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| Orientalism: theory and history | |
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| Eighteenth-century orientalism and Sir William Jones | |
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| Footnotes | |
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| Desire and quest romance | |
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| Oriental infections | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Americas | |
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| The promise of the new | |
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| British Romanticism in America | |
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| Romantic exploration | |
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| American utopias | |
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| Transcendentalism and its antagonists | |
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| New World Gothic | |
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| Encountering others | |
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| History and romance | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Reading Romanticism | |
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| New Historicism | |
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| Definitions, origins, and problems | |
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| The characteristics of current New Historicism | |
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| A short backwards history of Romantic New Historicism | |
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| Reading: William Wordsworth, 'Tintern Abbey' | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Feminism | |
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| History | |
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| Themes | |
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| Reading: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Ecology | |
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| Ecological approaches to British Romantic literature | |
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| The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |
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| Green language: Robert Bloomfield and John Clare | |
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| The return of the nightingale: Charlotte Smith and John Keats | |
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| The end of nature: William Blake, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron | |
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| The Romantic origins of environmentalism | |
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| Reading: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere' | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Psychoanalysis | |
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| Knowledge | |
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| Desire | |
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| Fantasy | |
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| Self | |
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| Reading: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Post-colonialism | |
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| What does 'post-colonial' mean? | |
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| Slavery and the Romantic imagination | |
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| Bringing slavery home | |
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| Domesticity and empire | |
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| Reading: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Formalism | |
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| Were the Romantics formalists? | |
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| Form and power: the case of the sonnet | |
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| The Coleridgean solution | |
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| Readings | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Romantic forms | |
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| Romantic forms: an introduction | |
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| Romantic epic (and a note on Romantic fragments) | |
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| Drama | |
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| Lyric | |
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| Poetic narrative, including romance | |
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| Gender and genre in Romantic poetry | |
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| Readings | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The sonnet | |
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| The sonnet form and its development | |
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| The sonnet revival | |
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| The sonnet, sensibility, and the self | |
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| Friendship and the heart | |
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| The public voice of liberty | |
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| Strength and stillness | |
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| Readings | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Web link | |
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| Lyric | |
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| Broadening possibilities | |
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| The resonant lyre | |
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| Language in action: lyric as drama | |
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| Vision quests | |
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| Representing the self | |
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| Lyric communities | |
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| Readings | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Epic | |
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| What is an epic? | |
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| A short history of epic | |
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| Epic revival | |
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| Diversity | |
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| Gender | |
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| Politics | |
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| Ambivalence | |
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| Reading: John Keats, Hyperion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Narrative poetry | |
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| Narrative revival | |
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| Byron's poetic 'romaunt' | |
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| 'The Italian strain' | |
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| Leigh Hunt's The Story of Rimini | |
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| The Orient | |
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| Reading: John Keats, Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The novel | |
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| Origins and directions | |
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| Genre and subgenres | |
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| The narrator in the Romantic-period novel | |
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| Readings | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Satire | |
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| Novels and prose satires | |
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| The theatre | |
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| Reviews and pamphlets | |
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| Graphic prints | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Reading: Lord Byron, Don Juan | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Web link | |
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| Romantic drama | |
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| The repertoire | |
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| Joanna Baillie's Plays on the Passions | |
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| The pursuit of novelty | |
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| The theatres | |
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| Star turns | |
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| Reading: Elizabeth Craven, The Miniature Picture | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Essays, newspapers, and magazines | |
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| Newspapers | |
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| Magazines | |
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| Reviews | |
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| The periodical essay | |
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| Reading: William Hazlitt, 'My First Acquaintance with Poets' | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Biography and autobiography | |
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| Social, economic, and cultural context | |
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| Individualism, natural rights, and life-writing | |
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| Biography: lives in contention | |
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| Autobiography: confession, self-exploration, self-making | |
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| The centrality of life-writing in the Romantic period | |
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| Reading: William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Romance | |
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| The origins of romance | |
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| The progress of romance | |
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| The Romanticism in romance | |
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| Readings | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Gothic | |
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| Gothic nationalism | |
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| Gothic aesthetic | |
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| Gothic (anti-)modernity | |
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| Gothic (anti-)rationality | |
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| Gothic taboos | |
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| Gothic genres | |
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| Gothic criticism | |
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| Readings | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Web links | |
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| The fragment | |
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| Fragments, fashion, and fakery | |
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| The ruin and the unfinished | |
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| Aesthetic and antiquarian contexts | |
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| Responses | |
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| Form or genre? | |
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| The afterlife of the Romantic fragment | |
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| Reading: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Kubla Khan' | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Forgeries | |
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| Poetic forgeries | |
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| Medical hoaxes | |
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| Travel lies | |
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| Exotic others | |
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| Reading: John Hatfield and the Lake Poets | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Non-fictional prose | |
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| Aesthetics and politics: politics and aesthetics | |
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| Edmund Burke's Reflections | |
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| Responses to Burke | |
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| Reading discursively | |
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| Readings | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Travel writing | |
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| A 'tour-writing and tour-publishing age' | |
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| Explorers: the business of scientific discovery | |
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| Survivors, missionaries, and other travellers | |
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| Romanticism and Romantic-era travel writing | |
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| Travel writing and Romantic-era literature | |
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| Reading: Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Letters, journals, and diaries | |
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| Popular myths and images | |
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| Critical problems | |
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| Letter-writing | |
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| Journals, diaries, and notebooks | |
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| Readings | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Romantic afterlives | |
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| Literary criticism and theory | |
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| The fascination of what's natural | |
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| Feeling and wonder | |
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| Ordinary language | |
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| Egotism and imagination | |
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| Current questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Plain style: Robert Frost | |
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| Wordsworth and Anglo-American modernism | |
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| The Anglophone world | |
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| On his native shores | |
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| Two second selves: Charles Tomlinson and Elizabeth Bishop | |
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| Recompenses | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The nineteenth- and twentieth-century novel | |
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| The Brontes | |
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| The American tradition: Moby-Dick | |
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| D. H. Lawrence | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Film | |
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| The Romantic poem on screen | |
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| Romantic film biography | |
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| Films on the birth of a Romantic classic | |
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| Filming the origins of Romanticism | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Web links | |
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| The theatre | |
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| Upstaging Prometheus | |
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| Lord, Byron | |
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| Hideous stage progeny: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus | |
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| Afterlife now: Romanticism unbound; or 'cut' | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The idea of the author | |
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| Lives of the poets | |
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| Inventing the author | |
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| Posterity | |
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| Genius, originality, inspiration | |
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| Craze | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Modernism and postmodernity | |
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| Modernist debts to Romanticism | |
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| Modern Romantics | |
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| Later Romantics | |
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| Modern constructions of Romanticism | |
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| Postmodernity and postmodernism | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Politics | |
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| A Romantic ideology? | |
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| A green Romanticism? | |
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| Radicals or reactionaries? | |
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| Nationalism, imperialism, and orientalism | |
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| Romanticism and racism | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Sciences | |
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| Normal science | |
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| Geology | |
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| Astronomy | |
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| Sciences of life | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Environmentalism | |
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| The Romantic legacy | |
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| Industrial society and its discontents | |
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| Romantic consumerism, green consumerism | |
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| Ecological criticism | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Romanticism in the electronic age | |
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| Text analysis | |
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| Digital editions | |
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| Text encoding | |
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| Romanticism on the Internet | |
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| Learning how | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Web Links | |
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| Index | |