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.
Animality in British Romanticism: The Aesthetics of Species
1st Edition
By Peter Heymans
May 31, 2017
The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species. This book examines literary representations of human and non-human animality in British Romanticism. The book’s novel approach focuses on the role of ...
Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
1st Edition
By Shahidha Bari
May 31, 2017
John Keats remains one of the most familiar and beloved of English poets, but has received surprisingly little critical attention in recent years. This study is a fresh contribution to Keats criticism and Romantic scholarship, positioning Keats as a figure of philosophical interest who warrants ...
Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature
1st Edition
By Jeremy Davies
June 08, 2016
When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions. Urged on by some of their most deeply felt preoccupations – and in the case of figures like ...
Metaphysical Hazlitt: Bicentenary Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Uttara Natarajan, Tom Paulin, Duncan Wu
December 01, 2015
The rediscovery and restitution of William Hazlitt as a canonical Romantic author has been among the latest and most significant developments in present-day Romantic studies. This volume, a collection of previously unpublished essays by the foremost scholars in the field presents Hazlitt as a ...
Keats's Boyish Imagination
1st Edition
By Richard Marggraf Turley
May 07, 2015
For many readers, John Keats's achievement is to have attainted a supreme poetic maturity at so young an age. Canonical poems of resignation and acceptance such as 'To Autumn' are traditionally seen as examples par excellence of this maturity. In this highly innovative study, however, Marggraf ...
Leigh Hunt: Life, Poetics, Politics
1st Edition
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By Nicholas Roe
May 07, 2015
Recent critical and scholarly interest in John Keats has encouraged a resurgence of interest in his friend and mentor, the poet and journalist Leigh Hunt. This timely collection of essays by leading British and North America romanticists explores Hunt's life, writings and cultural significance over...
The Female Romantics: Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism
1st Edition
By Caroline Franklin
November 10, 2014
Awarded the Elma Dangerfield Prize by the International Byron Society in 2013 The nineteenth century is sometimes seen as a lacuna between two literary periods. In terms of women’s writing, however, the era between the death of Mary Wollstonecraft and the 1860s feminist movement produced a coherent...
Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination
1st Edition
By Pratima Prasad
September 11, 2014
This book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels—that is, novels by French authors such as Victor Hugo, George Sand, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, François René de Chateaubriand, Claire...
Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era: Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity
1st Edition
By Robert Mitchell
July 03, 2014
Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era explores a fascinating connection between two seemingly unrelated Romantic-era discourses, outlining the extent to which eighteenth and early nineteenth century theories of sympathy were generated by crises of state finance. Through readings of authors ...
Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene: A Reception History of his Major Works, 1805-1828
1st Edition
By Michael Eberle-Sinatra
December 11, 2013
Leigh Hunt’s contributions to English literature, although downplayed for several decades, are now acknowledged by scholars as key to our understanding of the Romantic period. He was not only a facilitator - in his support for the poetry of Shelley and Keats for example - but was also a major ...
Legacies of Romanticism: Literature, Culture, Aesthetics
1st Edition
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By Carmen Casaliggi, Paul March-Russell
September 20, 2013
This book visits the Romantic legacy that was central to the development of literature and culture from the 1830s onward. Although critical accounts have examined aspects of this long history of indebtedness, this is the first study to survey both Nineteenth and Twentieth century culture. The ...
Tracing Women's Romanticism: Gender, History, and Transcendence
1st Edition
By Kari E. Lokke
September 10, 2012
Awarded the 2005 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize by the International Conference on Romanticism This book explores a cosmopolitan tradition of nineteenth-century novels written in response to Germaine de Staël's originary novel of the artist as heroine, corinne. The first book to delineate the ...