A history of Romantic literature

Author(s)

• Burwick, Frederick

Bibliographic Information

A history of Romantic literature

Frederick Burwick

（Blackwell histories of literature）

Wiley Blackwell, 2019

• : [hardback]

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Historical Narrative Offers Introduction to Romanticism by Placing Key Figures in Overall Social Context Going beyond the general literary survey, A History of Romantic Literature examines the literatures of sensibility and intensity as well as the aesthetic dimensions of horror and terror, sublimity and ecstasy, by providing a richly integrated account of shared themes, interests, innovations, rivalries and disputes among the writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Drawing from the assemblage theory, Prof. Burwick maintains that the literature of the period is inseparable from prevailing economic conditions and ongoing political and religious turmoil, as well as developments in physics, astronomy, music and art. Thus, rather than deal with authors as if they worked in isolation from society, he identifies and describes their interactions with their communities and with one another, as well as their responses to current events. By connecting seemingly scattered and random events such as the bank crisis of 1825, he weaves the coincidental into a coherent narrative of the networking that informed the rise and progress of Romanticism. Notable features of the book include: A strong narrative structure divided into four major chronological periods: Revolution, 1789-1798; Napoleonic Wars, 1799-1815; Riots, 1815-1820; Reform, 1821-1832 Thorough coverage of major and minor figures and institutions of the Romantic movement (including Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Montague and the Bluestockings, Lord Byron, John Keats, Letitia Elizabeth Landon etc.) Emphasis on the influence of social networks among authors, such as informal dinners and teas, clubs, salons and more formal institutions With its extensive coverage and insightful analysis set within a lively historical narrative, History of Romantic Literature is highly recommended for courses on British Romanticism at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. It will also prove a highly useful reference for advanced scholars pursuing their own research.

Table of Contents

Illustrations viii Introduction 1 I Revolution (1789-1798) 22 The 'Revolution Controversy' 22 Newington Green Circle and Richard Price 25 Mary Wollstonecraft 26 Anna Laetitia Barbauld 29 Abolition Movement 30 Thomas Beddoes, Pneumatic Institution 38 Slave Trade, Opium Trade 41 Elizabeth Montagu and the Bluestockings 47 Helen Maria Williams 51 William Blake 54 Anna Seward 63 Dissenters 64 Historical Nodes 66 Corresponding Societies and Treason Trials 67 Erasmus Darwin 70 Charles Lloyd 72 John Thelwall 74 John Horne Tooke 75 Nonconformists 77 William Blake: Vision and Prophecy 78 George Crabbe 81 Thomas Holcroft 83 Gothic, Domestic Violence, Sadism 92 The Irish Rebellion 99 Coleridge at Cambridge 100 William Frend 101 John Tweddell and James Losh 103 Freedom of the Press 105 Letters of Junius 107 George Dyer 115 Mary Hays 120 Elizabeth Hamilton 127 Mary Robinson 127 Coleridge and Wordsworth 128 Joanna Baillie 136 Maria Edgeworth 139 Charlotte Smith 139 II Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) 158 The French Consulate and Great Britain 158 Coalitions 159 Toussaint L'Ouverture 168 Peace of Amiens 168 The 'Dejection' Dialogue 171 The Growth of The Prelude 177 Back to Nature 188 Coleridge: Conversation Poems 190 Continental Romanticism 205 Jane Porter 211 Thomas Bewick 213 Moral Causality 214 1805: Connections and Coincidences 215 The Periodical Press 219 Exaltation and Exploitation of the Child 226 The Lecture 229 Lord Byron: 'Fools are my theme, let satire be my song' 234 The Novel 237 Interconnections: Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, George Crabbe, Joanna Baillie, Charlotte Smith, Anna Laetitia Barbauld 239 III Riots (1815-1820) 297 Waterloo 297 Corn Laws: Cobbett, Bamford, Wroe, Elliott 309 Lord Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Cantos III and IV 313 Lord Byron: Manfred 318 Percy Bysshe Shelley 328 Samuel Rogers 333 Coleridge: Principles of Genial Criticism and Biographia Literaria 334 Coleridge: 'Kubla Khan' and 'Christabel' 339 Keats: Networking 349 Keats: Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion 351 Keats: 'Eve of St. Agnes' and Lamia 353 Keats: The 'Great Odes' 358 Belatedness 366 Wordsworth, Shelley, Reynolds: Peter Bell, First, Second, Third, and Fourth 367 Wordsworth: Benjamin the Waggoner 375 Cato Street Conspiracy 376 Leigh Hunt 381 March of the Blanketeers 383 Satire and the Gagging Acts 385 Shelley: Mask of Anarchy 388 Beau Brummell 388 Blake: Jerusalem 389 Shelley: Prometheus Unbound 393 IV Reform (1821-1832) 413 Trial of Queen Caroline 413 Shelley, Swellfoot the Tyrant 419 Shelley, Witch of Atlas 425 Byron, Don Juan 427 John Clare, The Village Minstrel 431 De Quincey, Confessions 433 Maria Edgeworth, Tomorrow 435 Charles Lamb: Essayist, Critic, Playwright 439 William Hazlitt, Spirit of the Age 447 Deaths: Keats, Napoleon, Shelley, Castlereagh, Byron, Radcliffe 451 Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Improvisatrice 453 Samuel Rogers: Italy 455 George Dyer 457 Mary Russell Mitford, Foscari 458 Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations 466 Panic of 1825 468 Felicia Hemans 470 Thomas Love Peacock, Misfortune of Elphin (1829) 472 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death's Jest Book 475 Parliamentary Reform 478 Abolition 478 Deaths: Blake, Hazlitt, Scott, Goethe, Coleridge Crabbe, Lamb, Thelwall 479 Conclusion 489 Index 492

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Details

• NCID: BB2897502X
• ISBN:
  • 9781119044352
• LCCN: 2019006655
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Hoboken, N.J.
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 533 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN751
  • DC23 : 809/.9145
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Romanticism -- Europe -- History
  • LCSH : European literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : European literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA59301271