Routledge Library Editions: Romanticism
About the Book Series
This set reissues 28 books on Romanticism originally published between 1940 and 2006. Routledge Library Editions: Romanticism provides an outstanding collection of scholarship which explores not only Romantic literature but the Romantic Movement as a whole, including art, philosophy and science.
Romantic Science and the Experience of Self: Transatlantic Crosscurrents from William James to Oliver Sacks
1st Edition
By Martin Halliwell
October 18, 2017
First published in 1999, this engaging interdisciplinary study of romantic science focuses on the work of five influential figures in twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual history. In this book, Martin Halliwell constructs an innovative tradition of romantic science by indicating points of ...
Romanticism: Critical Essays in American Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By James Barbour, Thomas Quirk
October 18, 2017
First published in 1986. This outstanding collection of major essays by some of America’s finest literary scholars and critics provides students of American literature with a unique perspective of America’s Romantic literature. Some of these essays make connections between authors or define ...
European Romanticism: Self-Definition
1st Edition
By Ann Blainey
October 16, 2017
First published in 1980. This collection of carefully selected extracts from primary texts seeks to show what the Romantics themselves held Romanticism to be. The movement is thus defined in terms of the writers’ own views of their art both in general principle and in practical terms. This title ...
Poetry of the Romantic Period
1st Edition
By J. R. de J. Jackson
October 16, 2017
First published in 1980. This title provides a critical and historical account of poetry written between 1780 and 1835. The author has been especially concerned to place the great poems and poets of the age in the context of the conventions and traditions in which they wrote, offering new ...
Radical Sensibility: Literature and Ideas in the 1790s
1st Edition
By Chris Jones
October 16, 2017
First published in 1993. Radical Sensibility provides a detailed account of the interrelations of literature, ideas and history in the eighteenth century’s Revolutionary decade. The book traces a continuity of ideas from Shaftesbury to Godwin and Wollstonecraft, and sets it beside a conservative ...
Reflections of Revolution: Images of Romanticism
1st Edition
Edited
By Alison Yarrington, Kelvin Everest
October 16, 2017
Reflections of Revolution, first published in 1993, demonstrates the interdisciplinarity that had been emerging from cultural and historical studies. Taking the French Revolution as its focus, the book examines the tremendously diverse and intellectually exciting cultural reactions to the events of...
River of Dissolution: D. H. Lawrence and English Romanticism
1st Edition
By Cedric Hentschel
October 16, 2017
First published in 1969. This title concerns itself with the ambivalence of Lawrence’s attitude towards corruption. Clarke demonstrates that Lawrence’s attitude to ‘will’ and to sensational or disintegrative sex is much more equivocal than conceded. At the same time this is a study of Lawrence’s ...
Romanticism: Comparative Discourses
1st Edition
Edited
By Larry Peer, Diane Hoeveler
October 16, 2017
First published in 2006. Exploring how discourse is figured in the texts of key European Romantic authors such as Wackenroder, Coleridge, Byron and Hugo, this volume offers nuanced readings of the under-explored syntactic, semantic, and ideological structures of Romantic works. Rather than ...
Science in the Romantic Era
1st Edition
By David Knight
October 16, 2017
First published in 1998. The Romantic Era was a time when society, religion and other beliefs, and science were all in flux. The idea that the universe was a great clock, and that men were little clocks, all built by a divine watchmaker, was giving way to a more dynamic and pantheistic way of ...
Southey
1st Edition
By Kenneth Curry
October 16, 2017
First published in 1975. Southey first made his reputation, when he was a very young man, as a poet. Although he is now remembered primary for his poetry, this title reveals how he excelled in many other genres as well. Examination of Southey’s life reveals an attractive and humane personality, at ...
The Byronic Teuton: Aspects of German Pessimism 1800-1933
1st Edition
By Cedric Hentschel
October 16, 2017
First published in 1940. The Byronic Teuton explores the delineation in German literature, between 1800 and 1933, of certain pessimistic ideas and emotions that were being expressed by writers, artists and academics. This manifestation of negative sentiments was defined by Hentschel as ‘Byronism’. ...
The Genevese Background: Studies of Shelley, Francis Danby, Maria Edgeworth, Ruskin, Meredith, and Joseph Conrad in Geneva
1st Edition
By H. W. Häusermann
October 16, 2017
First published in 1952. This title explores the lives of authors during their time in Geneva; including chapters on the Romantic author Mary Shelley, the novelist Joseph Conrad and the critic John Ruskin, amongst many others. This interesting study also includes letters that had previously been ...