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Companion to Romanticism

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ISBN-10: 0631218777

ISBN-13: 9780631218777

Edition: 1999

Authors: Duncan Wu

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Contexts and perspectives vital to our understanding of the origins and evolution of the concept of Romanticism are covered in eight introductory essays. These are followed by 22 readings of key texts from Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans.
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List price: $65.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/29/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 566
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Introduction
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Contexts and Perspectives 1790-1830
Romanticism: The Brief History of a Concept
Preromanticism
From Revolution to Romanticism: The Historical Context from 1800
Beyond the Enlightenment: the Philosophical, Scientific, and Religious Inheritance
Britain at War: The Historical Context
Literature and Religion
The Picturesque, the Beautiful, and the Sublime
The Romantic Reader
Readings
William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Edmund Burke, Reflections Upon the Revolution in France
Charlotte Smith, The Old Manor House
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel
Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads
Dorothy Wordsworth, Journals
Joanna Baillie, A Series of Plays
William Wordsworth, The Prelude
Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin
Mary Tighe, Psyche
Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head
Walter Scott, Waverley
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
John Keats, Odes
George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound: Michael O'Neill
Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Charles Lamb, Elia
William Hazlitt, Spirit of the Age
Letitia Landon (L. E. L.), The Improvisatrice
John Clare, The Shepherd's Calendar
Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman
Genres and Modes
The Romantic Drama
The Novel
Gothic Fiction
Parody and Imitation
Travel Writing
Romantic Literary Criticism
Issues and Debates
Romanticism and Gender
Romanticism and Feminism
New Historicism
Romantic Ecology
Psychological Approaches
Dialogic Approaches
The Romantic Fragme