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1. Tracing Women's Romanticism

   Gender, History, and Transcendence

   By Kari E. Lokke

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   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...

   Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Female Romantics

   Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism

   By Caroline Franklin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   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 body of major works, impelled by an ongoing dialogue between Enlightenment ‘...

   Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. German Romanticism and Science

   The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter

   By Jocelyn Holland

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   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...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
4. Romantic Representations of British India

   Edited by Michael J Franklin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   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...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine

   Biography, Celebrity, Politics

   By David Higgins

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   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...

   Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge
6. Legacies of Romanticism

   Literature, Culture, Aesthetics

   Edited by Carmen Casaliggi, Paul March-Russell

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   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...

   Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. Romanticism, History, Historicism

   Essays on an Orthodoxy

   Edited by Damian Walford Davies

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   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...

   Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. Keats and Philosophy

   The Life of Sensations

   By Shahidha Bari

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   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...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
9. Animality in British Romanticism

   The Aesthetics of Species

   By Peter Heymans

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   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...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Meaning of Life in Romantic Poetry and Poetics

    By Ross Wilson

    Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

    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...

    Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge