This book is a comprehensive guide to the richness and diversity of the Romantic field. It includes 46 specially commissioned chapters by an international team of leading scholars and combines chapters offering background and contextual information with detailed readings of Romantic texts.
The volume is divided into four parts - 'Romantic Orientations', 'Reading Romanticism', 'Romantic Forms' and 'Romantic Afterlives'.
PART 1 ; ROMANTIC ORIENTATIONS ; 1. The Historical Context ; 2. The Literary Background ; 3. Classical Inheritances ; 4. Sensibility ; 5. The Visual Arts and Music ; 6. Print Culture ; 7. Romanticism and Science ; 8. Religion and Philosophy ; 9. England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland ; 10. Europe ; 11. Easts ; 12. Americas ; PART 2 ; READING ROMANTICISM ; 13. Historicist/Marxist Approaches ; 14. Feminist Approaches ; 15. Ecological Approaches ; 16. Psychoanalytic Approaches ; 17. Postcolonial Approaches ; 18. Formalist Approaches ; PART 3 ; ROMANTIC FORMS ; 19. Introduction to Romantic Forms ; 20. The Lyric ; 21. Epic ; 22. The Sonnet ; 23. Narrative Poetry ; 24. The Novel ; 25. Satire ; 26. Drama ; 27. Essays, Newspapers and Magazines ; 28. Biography and Autobiography ; 29. Romance ; 30. Gothic ; 31. Fragments ; 32. Forgeries ; 33. Non-Fictional Prose ; 34. Travel Writing ; 35. Letters, Diaries and Journals ; PART 4 ; ROMANTIC AFTERLIVES ; 36. Literary Criticism and Theory ; 37. The Poetic Tradition ; 38. The Novel ; 39. Film ; 40. Romantic Afterlives and Legacies in the Theatre ; 41. Idea of the Author ; 42. Modernism and Postmodernity ; 43. Politics ; 44. Science ; 45. Environmentalism ; 46. Romanticism in the Electronic Age
