Böcker i Cambridge Studies in Romanticism-serien

Andrew Franta examines how the reconfigurations of the literary market and the publishing context transformed the ways poets conceived of their audience and the forms of poetry itself. Through readings of Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hemans, and Tennyson, Franta redefines Romanticism's contribution to modern conceptions of politics and publicity.

This book offers a thoroughgoing literary analysis of William Cobbett as a writer. Leonora Nattrass explores the nature and effect of Cobbett's rhetorical strategies, through close examination of a broad selection of his polemical works, from his early American journalism onwards, in the context of contemporary political writing.

In this highly illustrated and original contribution to the cultural history of the eighteenth century, Russell reveals the influence of places and modes of sociability on the theatre and on canonical plays such as The School for Scandal, as well as suggesting a prehistory for British Romanticism.

Sonia Hofkosh explores the role of gender in early nineteenth-century British literary culture, especially in terms of the simultaneous commercialization and feminization of literature. Exploring a range of work by writers including Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley and Austen amongst others, she offers a new perspective on the field of romantic studies.

In fresh readings of Keats, Shelley, Coleridge and others, Miller shows how evening settings enabled poets to represent the passage of time. This leads to new ways of reading canonical works, and of thinking about the kinds of themes the lyric can express.

Kevin Gilmartin explores the literary forms of counterrevolutionary expression in Britain, analysing the role of periodical reviews and anti-Jacobin fiction in the campaign against revolution, and closes with a fresh account of the conservative careers of Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Writers of the Romantic period were fascinated by experiences of pain and misery, and explored the ability to derive pleasure, and produce creative energy, out of masochism and submission. This provocative and ambitious study ranges widely through early nineteenth-century culture to reveal the underlying power relations that shaped Romanticism.

Julie Kipp examines Romantic writers' treatments of motherhood and maternal bodies in the context of the legal, medical, educational and socioeconomic debates about motherhood so popular during the period. She argues that these discussions turned the physical processes associated with mothering into matters of national importance.

Andrew Bennett challenges the popular conception of Wordsworth as a writer who didn't so much write poetry as compose it aloud or in his head. This sustained attention to the question of writing in Wordsworth produces compelling readings of the major poems.

In this work, Goldberg argues that Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge - the 'Lake school' - aligned themselves with emerging constructions of the 'professional gentleman' that challenged the vocational practices of late eighteenth-century British culture.

A major new study of Percy Shelley's intellectual life and poetic career, Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime offers not only a substantial reassessment of Shelley's work but also a significant re-appraisal of the role of the sublime in the cultural history of Britain during the Romantic period.

Stabler offers the first full-scale examination of Byron's poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time. Drawing on new archive research into Byron's correspondence and reading, Stabler traces the complexity of the intertextual dialogues that run through his work.

Ferris examines the way in which the problem of 'incomplete union'generated by the formation of the United Kingdom in 1800 destabilised British public discourse in the early decades of the nineteenth century, and the emergence of the national tale as the main genre to address these issues.

Religious diversity and ferment characterize the period that gave rise to Romanticism in England. Daniel White provides a clear and useful introduction to religious Dissenting communities and analyzes how Dissent shaped the work of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey.

How and why has allegory survived, despite the Romantic critique of it as an outdated and artificial literary mode? This wide-ranging 1997 study of allegory in theory and literary practice from the late Renaissance to the present day argues that Romanticism represented the pivotal moment in allegory's survival.

Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales or fatal women played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities and informed their exploration of issues surrounding the body, sexuality and politics. Craciun covers a wide range of writers and genres from the 1790s through the 1830s.

Kevis Goodman traces connections between Georgic verse and developments in other spheres from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. She opens up the subject of Georgic to larger areas of literary and cultural study including the history of the feelings, print culture, and early scientific technology.

This study of correspondence in the Romantic period calls into question the common notion that letters are a particularly 'romantic', personal, and ultimately feminine form of writing.

In this 1995 book, John Wyatt explores the relationship between literary history and science, through study of the friendship between Wordsworth and a group of scientists in the formative years of the new science of geology, and challenges the simplistic opposition between Romantic-literary and scientific-materialist cultures.

In this first full-length study of Romantic writers' obsession with Napoleon Bonaparte, Simon Bainbridge shows how major poets and essayists constructed, appropriated and contested different Napoleons as part of their sustained and partisan engagement in political and cultural debate.

Deirdre Coleman shows how the growing popularity of the anti-slavery movement gave a utopian cast to the debate about colonization. This utopianism can be seen most clearly in Romantic attempts to found an empire without slaves, a new world which would also encompass revolutionary sexual, racial and labour arrangements.

Print Politics was the first literary study of the culture of the popular radical movement for parliamentary reform in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Kevin Gilmartin explores the styles and strategies of radical opposition in the periodical press and in the public culture of the time.

Tuite's study presents a series of historically contextualized readings of Austen's writing, including juvenilia, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Austen's posthumously published novel, Sanditon, to examine ways in which Romantic-period definitions of nation, culture and literature continue to function in contemporary readings of Austen and her period.

This book, first published in 2000, offers a radical reassessment of one of the most important topics of the Romantic period. John Whale's study of the Romantic imagination focuses on the period's lively and often antagonistic polemics on aesthetics and politics, analysing texts by Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Hazlitt, Cobbett and Coleridge.

This 2000 book focuses on the significance of spice, and the spice trade, in Romantic literature, shedding light on the impact of the growing consumerism and capitalist ideology. Timothy Morton surveys literary, political, medical, travel, trade and philosophical literature, offering new readings of Keats, Shelley and Southey among many others.

This 1998 book examines the legacy of Romantic poetics in nineteenth-century political poetry. It argues that a communitarian tradition of poetry extending from the 1790s to William Morris in the 1890s drew on elements of Romantic lyricism to produce an ongoing and self-conscious tradition of radical poetics.

Margaret Russett uses the example of Thomas De Quincey, the nineteenth-century essayist best remembered for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and his memoirs of Wordsworth and Coleridge, to examine the idea of the 'minor' author, and how it is related to what we now call the Romantic canon.

Gary Dyer breaks new ground by surveying and interpreting hundreds of satirical poems and prose narratives published in Britain during the Romantic period. He shows that satire was a major and widely read genre, and includes a bibliography of more than 700 volumes containing satirical verses.

Caroline Gonda offers the first full-length, historically based study of the relationship between fathers and daughters in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century fiction. She draws on a wide variety of literary and non-literary materials, and examines the role of the domestic novel in maintaining familial and social order.

Canuel examines the way that Romantic poets, novelists and political writers criticized the traditional grounding of British political unity in religious conformity. Canuel shows how Romantic writers including Bentham, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Byron saw their works as political and literary commentaries on the extent and limits of religious toleration.