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.
Jane Austen's Men: Rewriting Masculinity in the Romantic Era
1st Edition
By Sarah Ailwood
December 13, 2021
This book illuminates Jane Austen’s exploration of masculinity through the courtship romance genre in the socially, politically and culturally turbulent Romantic era. Austen scrutinises, satirises, censures and ultimately rewrites dominant modes of masculinity through the courtship romance plot ...
The Evolution of Blake’s Myth
1st Edition
By Sheila Spector
December 13, 2021
Interpreting Blake has always proved challenging. Hermeneutics, as the on-going negotiation between the horizon of expectations and a given text, hinges on the preconceptions that structure thought. The structure, in turn, is derived from myth, a cultural narrative predicated on a particular set of...
Byron, Hunt, and the Politics of Literary Engagement
1st Edition
By Michael Steier
June 30, 2021
In the second decade of the nineteenth century, the British press began a campaign of critical abuse against Leigh Hunt, caricaturing the radical journalist as an upstart "Cockney" author whose literary talents were as disreputable as his politics. Lord Byron, on the other hand, was revered as a ...
Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing: A Public of One
1st Edition
By Adam Komisaruk
June 30, 2021
The Romantic age, though often associated with free erotic expression, was ambivalent about what if anything sex had to do with the public sphere. Late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century British texts often repressed the very sexual energies they claimed to be bringing into the open. The ...
The Evangelical Party and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Return to the Church of England
1st Edition
By Christopher Corbin
June 30, 2021
It has long been accepted that when Samuel Taylor Coleridge rejected the Unitarianism of his youth and returned to the Church of England, he did so while accepting a general Christian orthodoxy. Christopher Corbin clarifies Coleridge’s religious identity and argues that while Coleridge’s Christian ...
Robert Burns and the Philosophers
1st Edition
By J Walter McGinty
March 31, 2021
This volume expounds the influence of Robert Burns’s reading of Philosophyon his life and work, supplementing this with his personal encounterswith those philosophers he met. The work begins with theHomespun Philosophy of his early years under the tutelage of WilliamBurnes and John Murdoch, then ...
Coleridge and Cosmopolitan Intellectualism 1794-1804: The Legacy of Göttingen University
1st Edition
By Maximiliaan van Woudenberg
September 30, 2020
Viewing Samuel Taylor Coleridge's pursuit of continental intellectualism through the lens of cosmopolitanism, Maximiliaan van Woudenberg examines the so-called 'German Mania' of the writer in the context of the intellectual history of the university. At a time when the confessional model of ...
Evolutions of Jewish Character in British Fiction: Nor Yet Redeemed
1st Edition
By Aaron Kaiserman
September 30, 2020
Evolutions of Jewish Character in British Fiction: Nor Yet Redeemed builds upon recent scholarship concerning representations of Jews in the British Romantic and Victorian periods. Existing studies identify common trends, or link positive Jewish portrayals to authorial interests and social ...
Jane Austen: A Style in History
1st Edition
By Cris Yelland
September 30, 2020
From 1809 until just before her death, Jane Austen lived in a small, all-female household at Chawton, where reading aloud was the evening's entertainment and a crucial factor in the way Austen formed and modified her writing. This book looks in detail at Jane Austen's style. It discusses her ...
Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind
1st Edition
Edited
By Beth Lau
September 30, 2020
The essays in this volume interpret Jane Austen’s fiction through the lens of various sciences of the mind and brain, especially the cluster of disciplines implicated in the term cognitive science, including neuroscience, evolutionary biology, evolutionary and developmental psychology, and others. ...
Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: National and Transatlantic Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Monika Elbert, Lesley Ginsberg
December 10, 2019
American publishing in the long nineteenth century was flooded with readers, primers, teaching-training manuals, children’s literature, and popular periodicals aimed at families. These publications attest to an abiding faith in the power of pedagogy that has its roots in transatlantic Romantic ...
Romanticism and Philosophy: Thinking with Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Sophie Laniel-Musitelli, Thomas Constantinesco
December 10, 2019
This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to offer new perspectives on the relationship between Romanticism and philosophy. The entanglement of Romantic literature with philosophy is increasingly recognized, just as Romanticism is increasingly viewed as European and Transatlantic, yet ...