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.
The Post-Romantics
1st Edition
Edited
By Donald Thomas
October 16, 2017
The Post-Romantics, first published in 1990, provides a clear, introductory guide to the literary careers and reputations of five major Victorian poets: Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Swinburne and Clough. Heirs to the Romantics tradition, the predecessors of the moderns. This accessible and ...
The Romantics
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Prickett
October 16, 2017
First published in 1981. This book aims to show Romanticism as a response to certain questions – in literature, art, religion, philosophy and politics – that were being asked increasingly towards the end of the eighteenth century. The essays focus on growth and change (in society and the individual...
Tradition and Romanticism: Studies in English Poetry from Chaucer to W. B. Yeats
1st Edition
By J. R. de J. Jackson
October 16, 2017
First published in 1940. This title examines the tradition of Romantic literature, and the conception of poetry held by poets and critics throughout the centuries. Evans explores the writings of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Coleridge, up until the modernist movement and the works of W. B. ...
A Concordance to the Poems of John Keats
1st Edition
By Michael G. Becker, Robert J. Dilligan, Todd K. Bender
October 13, 2017
First published in 1981. A Concordance to the Poems of John Keats intended to provide the user with a volume suitable to the varying and increasingly specialised interests of scholarship. This title offers a high degree of inclusiveness that attends to the poems and plays, the emended and ...
Beyond Romanticism: New Approaches to Texts and Contexts 1780-1832
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Copley, John Whale
October 13, 2017
First published in 1992. Beyond Romanticism represents a substantial challenge to traditional views of the Romantic period and provides a sustained critique of ‘Romantic ideology’. The debates with which it engages had previously been under-represented in the study of Romanticism, where the claims ...
Immortal Boy: A Portrait of Leigh Hunt
1st Edition
By Ann Blainey
October 13, 2017
Ann Blainey’s work, first published in 1985, provides a sensitive study of Leigh Hunt and the literary climate that influenced his life, and fills a large gap in literary biography. Blainey brings a perceptive eye to a generally embittered man whose chaotic life seemed a tragic failure. This title ...
Matthew Arnold and the Romantics
1st Edition
By Leon Gottfried
October 13, 2017
First published in 1963. Matthew Arnold grew up under the personal as well as literary influence of Wordsworth, when Keats, Shelley, and Byron were dominant poetic forces and Coleridge a seminal thinker on social and religious problems. However, the great Romantics were not always positive ...
Romantic Bards and British Reviewers: A Selected Edition of Contemporary Reviews of the Works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats and Shelley
1st Edition
Edited
By John O. Hayden
October 13, 2017
First published in 1971. This collection of contemporary reviews of the five major English Romantic poets – Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats and Shelley – makes available the critical documents of a great period of literature and literary reviewing. Professor Hayden has selected sixty-eight ...
Romantic Mythologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Fletcher
October 13, 2017
First published in 1967. These essays illustrate the movement of ideas in the literary and artistic history of the later part of the nineteenth century. The subjects dealt with are diverse though interrelated. All the contributors exemplify the changing thought of the period from Romanticism, ...
Romanticism and Ideology: Studies in English Writing 1765-1830
1st Edition
By David Aers, Jonathan Cook, David Punter
October 13, 2017
First published in 1981.The primary purpose of this book is to serve as an introduction to writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In addition to major Romantic poets – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelly – the authors discuss writers such as Austen, Hazlitt and Burke, ...
Romanticism, Hermeneutics and the Crisis of the Human Sciences
1st Edition
By Scott Masson
October 13, 2017
First published in 2004. This study begins by surveying the field of modern hermeneutics. Noting its repeated crisis of self-legitimisation, it traces these to circular beliefs bequeathed by Romanticism that human nature is self-begetting, and can thus be known intimately and autonomously. After ...
The Farthing Poet: A Biography of Richard Hengist Horne 1802-84: A Lesser Literary Lion
1st Edition
By Ann Blainey
October 13, 2017
First published in 1968. Richard Hengist Horne, virtually unknown today, was one of the more extraordinary figures of the nineteenth century literary scene. The author of an epic poem Orion was acclaimed a work of genius by almost every English critic. His voluminous literary output is for the most...