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.
German Romanticism and Science: The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter
1st Edition
By Jocelyn Holland
July 27, 2012
Situated at the intersection of literature and science, Holland's study draws upon a diverse corpus of literary and scientific texts which testify to a cultural fascination with procreation around 1800. Through readings which range from Goethe’s writing on metamorphosis to Novalis’s aphorisms and ...
Romantic Representations of British India
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael J Franklin
July 11, 2012
Michael J. Franklin's Romantic Representations of British India is a timely study of the impact of Orientalist knowledge upon British culture during the Romantic period. The subject of the book is not so much India, but the British cultural understanding of India, particularly between 1750 and 1850...
Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine: Biography, Celebrity, Politics
1st Edition
By David Higgins
June 28, 2012
In early nineteenth-century Britain, there was unprecedented interest in the subject of genius, as well as in the personalities and private lives of creative artists. This was also a period in which literary magazines were powerful arbiters of taste, helping to shape the ideological consciousness ...
Romanticism, History, Historicism: Essays on an Orthodoxy
1st Edition
Edited
By Damian Walford Davies
May 30, 2012
The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism’s revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment...
The Meaning of Life in Romantic Poetry and Poetics
1st Edition
By Ross Wilson
August 16, 2011
This volume brings together an impressive range of established and emerging scholars to investigate the meaning of ‘life’ in Romantic poetry and poetics. This investigation involves sustained attention to a set of challenging questions at the heart of British Romantic poetic practice and theory. Is...
Romanticism and Visuality: Fragments, History, Spectacle
1st Edition
By Sophie Thomas
February 12, 2010
This book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual, the impact of new visual media on the literary and historical imagination, and on fragments and ruins as occupying the ...
Thomas De Quincey: New Theoretical and Critical Directions
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Morrison, Daniel S. Roberts
November 23, 2009
The ongoing critical fascination with Thomas De Quincey and the burgeoning recognition of the centrality of his writings to the Romantic age and beyond necessitates a critical examination of De Quincey. In this spirit, ten of the top De Quincey scholars in the world have come ...