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Literary research and the British romantic era Literary research and the British romantic era Peggy Keeran "Literary Research and the British Romantic Era: Strategies and Sources explores primary and secondary research resources of this prolific era, including general literary research guides; union libra… OL11638820W
Byron and romanticism Byron and romanticism Jerome J. McGann This collection of essays represents twenty-five years of work by one of the most important critics of Romanticism and Byron studies, Jerome McGann. The collection demonstrates McGann's evolution as … OL15128427W
The Cambridge introduction to British romantic poetry The Cambridge introduction to British romantic poetry Michael Ferber "The best way to learn about Romantic poetry is to plunge in and read a few Romantic poems. This book guides the new reader through this experience, focusing on canonical authors - Wordsworth, Coleri… OL16464940W
Romanticism, sincerity and authenticity Romanticism, sincerity and authenticity Tim Milnes,Kerry Sinanan "The categories of authenticity and sincerity have been treated with scepticism since at least the early twentieth century, but they remain indispensable for the study of Romantic literature and cult… OL16982068W
Influence and resistance in nineteenth-century English poetry Influence and resistance in nineteenth-century English poetry Margot Kathleen Louis,G. Kim Blank A volume of original essays answering common questions on English poetry in the 19th century, going into detail about the differences between Romantics and Victorians. OL17191714W
Romanticism Romanticism Nicholas Roe "This book is a guide of the Romantic field. It includes 46 chapters offering background and contextual information with detailed readings of Romantic texts. The volume is divided into four parts - '… OL18205573W
Gothic romanticism Gothic romanticism Tom Duggett "Gothic Romanticism relates architecture, politics, and literary form to read afresh the works of the Lake Poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey. Reading a wide range of canonical and lesser-read… OL18351402W
The fountain light The fountain light J. Robert Barth "These original essays, written in honor of distinguished scholar John L. Mahoney, explore the intersection of Romanticism and religion. They range from broad considerations of this relationship in s… OL19163232W
Romantic natural histories Romantic natural histories William Wordsworth,Charles Darwin,Ashton Nichols Includes texts from 1750 to 1859 by Gilbert White, John Aikin, Anna (Aikin) Barbauld, Joseph Priestley, Oliver Goldsmith, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Bewick, William Blake, William Wordsworth, William Bar… OL19428080W
Thomas De Quincey Thomas De Quincey Frederick Burwick "This book examines what De Quincey called 'psychological criticism', a mode of studying the 'power' of Shakespeare and Wordsworth, tracing the effects upon the subconscious. That psychological groun… OL19820522W
Murder by candlelight Murder by candlelight Michael Knox Beran "In the early nineteenth century, a series of murders took place in and around London which shocked the whole of England. The appalling nature of the crimes: a brutal slaying in the gambling netherwo… OL20011507W
British Romanticism and the science of the mind British Romanticism and the science of the mind Richardson, Alan In this provocative and original study, Alan Richardson examines an entire range of intellectual, cultural, and ideological points of contact between British Romantic literary writing and the pioneer… OL3961290W
Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader Lucy Newlyn Was Milton on the side of the angels or the devils? Was he republican or anti-republican, feminist or misogynist? Did he value innocence or experience? This book shows how the Romantic reader respond… OL4273099W
The romantic dream The romantic dream Douglas B. Wilson Although criticism on the medieval and Renaissance dream abounds, a strange lacuna exists in the critical literature of dream in the English Romantics. Every major Romantic poet relied frequently and… OL4297441W
Poetry as an occupation and an art in Britain, 1760-1830 Poetry as an occupation and an art in Britain, 1760-1830 Peter T. Murphy This is a great literary criticism work. It serves as an excellent companion to An Duanaire 1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed. It oozes historical significance. Rather than fall into the pitfall o… OL4305825W
Balladeering, minstrelsy, and the making of British romantic poetry Balladeering, minstrelsy, and the making of British romantic poetry Maureen N. McLane "This is a new history and theory of British poetry between 1760 and 1830, focusing on the relationship between Romantic poetry and the production, circulation and textuality of ballads. By discussin… OL549750W
Slavery and the Romantic imagination Slavery and the Romantic imagination Debbie Lee "The romantic movement had profound social implications for nineteenth-century British culture. Among the most significant, Debbie Lee contends, was the change it wrought to the insular Britons' abil… OL5851042W
The rescue of Romanticism The rescue of Romanticism Kenneth Daley "Valuable and timely in its long historical and critical perspective on the legacy of romanticism to Victorian art and thought, The Rescue of Romanticism is the first book-length study of the close i… OL6209472W
Romanticism and popular culture in Britain and Ireland Romanticism and popular culture in Britain and Ireland Philip Connell xiii, 317 pages : 24 cm OL6221754W
Romantics and Renegades Romantics and Renegades Charles W. Mahoney "Romantics and Renegades examines an abiding crux of romantic criticism: the political apostasies of the Lake poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey) as they renounced the revolutionary Jacobinism … OL9431578W
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