Routledge Studies in Romanticism
About the Book Series
This series presents the latest research into and criticism of Romanticism. Books will consider both canonical and non-canonical literature, and the series as a whole aims to present a range of research, unconfined by any particular approach or school of thought.
William Blake’s Divine Love: Visions of Oothoon
1st Edition
By Joshua Schouten de Jel
June 27, 2025
Despite the fact that William Blake summarises the plot of Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) in just eight lines in the prefatory ‘Argument,’ there are several contentious moments in the poem which continue to cause debate. Critics read Oothoon’s call to Theotormon’s eagles and her offer to...
Dante and Polish Writers: From Romanticism to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Ceccherelli
June 26, 2025
Dante and Polish Writers: From Romanticism to the Present explores the phenomenon of Polish Danteism from a hermeneutic perspective. The chapters shed light on a series of “encounters” of eminent Polish writers with Dante and the Divine Comedy, resulting in original interpretations, creative ...
Romantic Futures: Legacy, Prophecy, Temporality
1st Edition
Edited
By Evy Varsamopoulou
May 05, 2025
Romantic Futures is a collection which explores the significance of futurity in British Romanticism from a comparative perspective in three defining manifestations: the future as conscious legacy, by which is meant both influences or continuities and the (anticipations of) impact on the future; the...
Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age: The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic
1st Edition
By Deryl Davis
March 12, 2025
This book explores the contexts and reception history of Robert Pollok’s religious epic The Course of Time (1827), one of the best- selling long poems of the nineteenth century, which has been almost entirely forgotten today. Widely read in the United States and across the British Empire, the poem’...
The Social Imagination of the Romantic Wife in Literature: Marriage, Virtue, and Friendship
1st Edition
By Linda L. Reesman
November 22, 2024
The emergence of social change in the daily lives of English society appeared most noticeably through the Romantic-era response of human emotions to a period of reason that has defined the era of Enlightenment, scientifically and philosophically. Remarkably, the dramatic political shift that ...
Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry: 1793–1803
1st Edition
By Richard E. Matlak
July 11, 2024
Based upon the testimony of Thomas Carlyle, most biographers acknowledge that Wordsworth witnessed the beheading of the journalist Antoine Gorsas in October 1793 during the Reign of Terror. But they go no further. This study reads the Poet’s reactions to the Terror in passages from The Prelude as ...
Reading Keats’s Poetry: Alternative Subject Positions and Subject-Object Relations
1st Edition
By Merve Günday
July 04, 2024
This book claims that Keats’s poetry is a reaction against the discourse of modernity which traumatized the human subject by creating a divide between human and nature, subject and object. It argues that by transcending this divide and acknowledging the agency of both subject and object, Keats ...
George Eliot’s ‘The Lifted Veil’: A Sequential and Contextual Reading
1st Edition
By Franco Marucci
September 25, 2023
The negative historical judgment given to George Eliot’s ‘The Lifted Veil’ amounts nowadays to a gross critical blunder, and in the last three decades the story has been firmly reinstated in Eliot’s major canon. The premise of the present book is that George Eliot’s oeuvre is a compact macrotext ...
Shelley’s Poetics of Reticence: Shelley’s Shame
1st Edition
By Merrilees Roberts
May 31, 2023
Exploring the rhetorical and phenomenological links between shame and reticence, this book examines the psychology of Shelley’s anguished poet-Subject. Shelley’s struggles with the fragility of the ‘self’ have largely been seen as the result of thinking which connects emotional hyperstimulation to ...
The Absent God in the Works of William Wordsworth
1st Edition
By Eliza Borkowska
May 31, 2023
Called by one of its reviewers "Wordsworth’s biographia literaria," this book takes its reader on a fascinating journey into the mind of the poet whose attitude to God and religion points to a major shift in Western culture. The monograph probes the philosophical foundations of Wordsworth’s ...
The Moving Body and the English Romantic Imaginary
1st Edition
By Kristin Flieger Samuelian
May 31, 2023
The Moving Body and the English Romantic Imaginary explores ways in which England in the Romantic period conceptualized its relation both to its constituent parts within the United Kingdom and to the larger world through discussions of dance, dancing, and dancers, and through theories of dance and ...
The Presence of God in the Works of William Wordsworth
1st Edition
By Eliza Borkowska
May 31, 2023
Approaching Wordsworth’ writings from perspectives which have not been considered in critical literature, this book offers a multiangled reflection on the technicalities of the poet’s religious discourse, including the methodology of The Prelude revision, or Wordsworth’s patent art of "pious ...