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1 The Romanticism Handbook Edited by and continuum

2 Contents Detailed Table of Contents General Editor's Introduction Introduction and Timeline vii xi xiii 1 Historical Contexts 1 2 Literary and Cultural Contexts 14 3 Case Studies in Reading 1: Literary Texts 52 Rhian Williams 4 Case Studies in Reading 2: Critical texts 72 5 Key Critical Concepts and Topics 100 Adeline Johns-Putra 6 Changes in Critical Responses and Approaches Canonicity 141 Simon KSvesi 8 Sexuality and Gender 158 Elizabeth Fay 9 Race and Ethnicity 171 Carol Bolton 10 Mapping the Current Critical Landscape 185 Peter J. Kitson Glossary 200 Annotated Bibliography 206

3 Contents Appendix: A Survey of Romantic Literature Curricula 228 Available at Notes on Contributors 229 Index 231 VI

4 1 Historical Context 1 The Romantic Period 2 Pre-Romanticism 3 The 1790s and the King's Madness 4 Post-1800: The Napoleonic Wars 6 Post-Napoleon: The Regency 8 Coda: Empire 11 2 Literary and Cultural Contexts: Key Figures, Contexts, Genres and Movements 14 Key Figures Jane Austen ( ) 15 Joanna Baillie ( ) 16 Anna Laetitia Barbauld ( ) 17 William Blake ( ) 17 Edmund Burke ( ) 18 Robert Burns ( ) 19 Lord Byron, George Gordon ( ) 20 John Clare ( ) 21 Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( ) 22 William Godwin ( ), 23 William Hazlitt ( ) 24 Felicia Hemans ( ) 24 Leigh Hunt ( ) 24 John Keats ( ) 25 Hannah More ( ) 26 Thomas Paine ( ) 27 vn

5 % Thomas de Quincey ( ) 28 Ann Radcliffe ( ) 28 Walter Scott ( ) 29 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ( ) 30 Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ) 31 Charlotte Smith ( ) 32 Robert Southey ( ) 32 John Thelwall ( ) 33 Helen Maria Williams ( ) 34 Mary Wollstonecraft ( ) 34 Dorothy Wordsworth ( ) 35 William Wordsworth ( ) 36 Ann Yearsley ( ) 37 Contexts, Genres and Movements 38 Abolitionism 38 Changing Landscapes 39 Childhood 40 Drama 41 Gothic Fiction 42 Journals, Periodicals and Magazines 43 Literary Criticism 44 Nationhood 45 Poetry and the Poet 46 Prose Fiction 47 Religion, 48 Women 50 3 Case Studies in Reading 1: Literary Texts 52 Rhian Williams Introduction: Critical Perspectives - The Ecology of Romantic Poetry 52 William Cowper, 'The Task' 57 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Frost at Midnight' 61 John Clare, 'The Nightingale's Nest' 64 John Keats, 'Ode to a Nightingale' ' Case Studies in Reading 2: Critical Texts 72 Paulde Man, The Rhetoric of Romanticism (1984) 73 Jerome McGann, The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation (1983) 76

6 Anne Mellor, Romanticism and Gender (1993) 80 Tim Fulford and Peter J. Kitson (eds) Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, (1998) 84 Jonathon Bate, The Song of the Earth (2000) 86 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985) 94 5 Key Critical Concepts and Topics 101 Adeline Johns-Putra Canon 101 Class 102 Gender 104 Nature 106 Imagination 108 Orientalism 110 Revolution 111 Science 114 Slavery 115 The Sublime Changes in Critical Responses and Approaches 119 Criticizing Romanticism 119 Romantic Romanticism. 120 Victorian Romanticism 122 The Early Twentieth Century: Liberal Humanism and the New Criticism 125 After the New Criticism: Poststructuralism and Deconstruction 129 New Historicism, Feminism, Postcolonialism 131 Cultural Studies and Beyond Canonicity 141 ^ Simon Kovesi Booklists, Must-reads, Classics and Canons: Man-made Literature 141 Canons Defending the Borders: National Bards 146 On Not Reading 148 Canon Building: the Pragmatic Necessity of Unnatural Selection 149 Shooting the Canon 152 IX

7 Case Study: Should we Read Pro-Slavery Poetry? Sexuality and Gender 158 Elizabeth Fay 9 Race and Ethnicity 172 Carol Bolton Historical context 172 Eighteenth-Century Racial Theory 174 The African Slave Trade 175 Orientalism 177 Scientific Racism 179 Critical Interventions Mapping the Current Critical Landscape 185 Peter J. Kitson Appendix: Survey of Romantic Literature Curricula A Note on the Survey Periodization, Themes and Contexts Poetry Romantic-Era Fiction Romantic-Era Drama Specialist Modules Assessment and Teaching Conclusion Glossary 200 ~~ Annotated Bibliography 206 Notes on Contributors " 229 Index 231

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