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Clara Tuite explores Lord Byron's life and work, his public image and the reception of his writings through the idea of scandalous celebrity. Tuite analyses Byron's role in the literary, political and sexual scandals that mark the Regency as a vital period of social transition and emergent celebrity culture.

Ewan James Jones offers a revisionary account of Coleridge's poetry, challenging the recent critical tendency to view Coleridge's philosophy separately from his poetry. Through close readings of major poems, including Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Jones argues that Coleridge engaged most significantly with philosophy through his verse.

Romanticism in the Shadow of War radically reconsiders the conventional understanding of Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats, as well as lesser-known writers, by showing how their work developed not only from Romantic writers of the 1790s, but also in response to the cultural innovations of the Napoleonic War years.

Focusing on the literary and historical relations between Britain and China during the Romantic period and based on extensive archival investigations, this book shows how British knowledge was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats, travellers, traders, and literary men and women.

Convinced that the end of the world was nigh, Romantic women writers assumed the role of the female prophet to sound the alarm before the final curtain fell. Utilizing a wealth of archival material, this book challenges preconceptions of the relations between gender, genre, and literary authority in this period.

The instinctive behaviour of crowds is still a mysterious phenomenon. Mary Fairclough discovers that in the Romantic period, writers explained this strange phenomenon using an emotional and medical term, sympathy. Her readings of Hazlitt, De Quincey, Wollstonecraft and others reveal their interest in contemporary political, medical and philosophical discourse.

The fictional world of women in the time of Jane Austen set in the context of social and economic reality.

The ancient conundrum of pleasure came alive in the eighteenth century with a new consideration of its ethical and political significance. This book takes a new critical approach to the philosophy and theory of pleasure and offers an extended reading of this central theme in Wordsworth's poetry and prose.

John Goodridge examines some of the ways in which John Clare perceived and represented two communities, that of his native village, whose culture, ecology and natural environment it was his life's principal work to record, and the community of poets who inspired him.

In this original and important study, leading scholar Jon Klancher discusses how early nineteenth-century writers and thinkers adopted and transformed Enlightenment ideas of knowledge. His conclusions transform the ways we think about knowledge, both in the Romantic period and in our own.

This book explores the ways that authors responded to a sense of unprecedented cultural and technological change. Together, their interventions helped to shape the values and tensions that informed Britain's sense of its own extraordinary modernity. Their insights have never been more pertinent.

A new cultural history of the Irish Romantic novel in the turbulent decades of the 1790s-1820s. Drawing on rich archives of history and fiction, Claire Connolly presents new interpretations of the novels and explores important links between fiction and politics at this formative period of Irish history.

This book offers a persuasive account of how new ideas of infancy and childhood shaped literary culture in the Romantic period and gave Romantic writers new ways of understanding history and different literary forms.

Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley all wrote tragedies in response to the turbulent political and intellectual climate in Britain, during and after the French Revolution. Unveiling the remarkable artistry of these mostly unperformed plays, this book examines the playwrights' hostility to royalist Britain as well as their relations with each other.

This book is a history and theory of British poetry between 1760 and 1830, focussing on the relationship between Romantic poetry and the production, circulation and textuality of ballads. It shows how Romantic poetry was powerfully shaped by oral modes of poetic construction.

This study traces the ways in which Romantic writers responded to a debate over the dangers and rewards of idle contemplation, and examines the resulting growth of a 'British idealism'.

Gregory Dart expands upon existing notions of Cockneys and the 'Cockney School' in the late Romantic period by exploring some of the broader ramifications of the phenomenon in art and periodical literature and examining Cockneyism as a link between the works of Keats and the early works of Dickens.

Susan Matthews examines Blake's place within a bourgeois culture in the process of redefining the role and meaning of sexuality. Chapters focus on Fuseli and female sexuality, William Hayley and bluestocking culture, William Cowper and the sexuality of the natural world, and Richardson and the representation of rape.

Modern systems of paper money and intellectual property became established in the Romantic period. Matthew Rowlinson shows how a new conception of material artefacts as the bearers of abstract value shaped Romantic conceptions of character, material culture, and labor.

This book examines the literary negotiation of Anglo-Scottish relations in the century following the 1707 Union between Scotland's and England's parliaments.

Music permeated Georgian life and culture, and this book argues for its crucial influence on Romantic literary production. Combining archival research with original readings, Wood finds in the long-running debate over virtuosity both the lure of aristocratic luxury and the threats of machine technology and the professionalization of Romantic culture.

Examines the idea of 'gift-giving' (as opposed to commercial exchange) to reassess a wide range of issues in the thought and work of William Blake. The book addresses the nature of Blake's critique of commercial economics, his ideas regarding sociality, and his own production and dissemination of his work.

This is a theoretical study of the ways in which the major Romantic poets, Keats, Shelley and Coleridge, should not be thought of only as idealists within the conventional Romantic tradition, but as pragmatists, writing in the context of developments in linguistic empiricism.

In this book, Penny Fielding examines how Scottish Romantic literature sheds light on concepts of the British nation, and the roles of England and Scotland within it. Addressing the work of well and lesser-known writers, and a broad range of antiquarian and travel writing, Fielding explores the relationship of history, literature and geography.

Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge and Keats were deeply interested in how perception and sensory experience operate. Noel Jackson tracks this preoccupation through the Romantic period and beyond, both in relation to late eighteenth-century human sciences, and in the context of momentous social transformations in the period of the French Revolution.

Tracing the debate over what counted as history in nineteenth-century Britain, Mike Goode uncovers a Romantic literary and political tradition which held that historians must be manly and sentimental to understand history properly. Victorian academics successfully countered this tradition by asserting the superior importance of an unfeeling science of history.

Exploring links between Romanticism and the first burst of outspoken atheism in Britain, Priestman examines the major Romantic poets in their most intellectually radical periods, and many contemporary poet-intellectuals and controversialists. Above all, he conveys Romantic atheism's excitement and dramatic appeal to new developments in politics, science and comparative mythology.

Nicholas Williams situates Blake's thought historically by examining detailed readings of the poet's major works alongside contemporary parallels. The author offers revealing new insights into key Blake texts and draws attention to their inclusion of notions of social determinism, theories of ideology critique, and traditions of twentieth-century Utopias.

English Romanticism has long been considered an 'undramatic' and 'anti-theatrical' age, yet Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats all wrote plays. In the Theatre of Romanticism analyses these (and especially Coleridge's) plays, in the context of London theatre at the time, focusing on their constructions of women and nationhood.

This 2003 study sheds light on the way in which the English Romantics dealt with the basic problems of knowledge. Milnes argues that it is in their oscillation between knowledge and indifference that the Romantics prefigure the ambivalent negotiations of modern post-analytic philosophy.