Romanticism

Author(s)

• Day, Aidan

Bibliographic Information

Romanticism

Aidan Day

（The new critical idiom）

Routledge, 1996

• : pbk.

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-217) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: pbk. ISBN 9780415083782

Description

Aidan Day considers the history and usage of the term Romanticism, and the changing views and debates which surround it. He traces its history through nineteenth and twentieth-century readings, incorporating contemporary debates such as feminism, post-structuralism and new historicism. Day places the traditional canon in the wider context of their contemporary political and philosophical thinkers. A range of writers, both canonical and non-canonical, are included in his survey, including: * William Blake * William Wordsworth * Samuel Taylor Coleridge * John Keats * Shelley * Edmund Blake * Thomas Paine * Mary Wollstonecraft * Jane Austen * Charlotte Smith * Anna Laetitia Barbauld Romanticism takes a clear, wide-ranging view of the subject and is essential reading for students new to the subject.

Table of Contents

• Introduction. Towards a Definition. 1. Enlightenment or Romantic
• Humanitarianism
• Nature
• Enlightenment or Sensibility
• 2. Constructions of the term 'Romantic'
• Politics and Literature
• Poststructuralism and Romanticism
• 3. Enlightenment and Romantic
• Politics and Spirituality
• Conservative Novelists
• Historicism and Romanticism
• New Radicalism
• Romanticism and Conservatism
• 4. Gender and the Sublime
• Primary Sources
• Bibliography
• Index

Volume

ISBN 9780415122665

Description

Aidan Day considers the history and usage of the term Romanticism, and the changing views and debates which surround it. He traces its history through nineteenth and twentieth-century readings, incorporating contemporary debates such as feminism, post-structuralism and new historicism. Day places the traditional canon in the wider context of their contemporary political and philosophical thinkers. A range of writers, both canonical and non-canonical, are included in his survey, including: William Blake William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Keats Shelley Edmund Blake Thomas Paine Mary Wollstonecraft Jane Austen Charlotte Smith Anna Laetitia Barbauld Romanticism takes a clear, wide-ranging view of the subject and is essential reading for students new to the subject.

Table of Contents

• Introduction. Towards a Definition. 1. Enlightenment or Romantic
• Humanitarianism
• Nature
• Enlightenment or Sensibility
• 2. Constructions of the term 'Romantic'
• Politics and Literature
• Poststructuralism and Romanticism
• 3. Enlightenment and Romantic
• Politics and Spirituality
• Conservative Novelists
• Historicism and Romanticism
• New Radicalism
• Romanticism and Conservatism
• 4. Gender and the Sublime
• Primary Sources
• Bibliography
• Index

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Details

• NCID: BA27025855
• ISBN:
  • 041512266X
  • 0415083788
• LCCN: 95008288
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 217 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR457
  • DC20 : 820.9/145
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
  • LCSH : English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
  • LCSH : Romanticism -- Great Britain
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA26552607