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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Romanticism and Visuality

   Fragments, History, Spectacle

   By Sophie Thomas

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   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...

   Published February 11th 2010 by Routledge
5. Thomas De Quincey

   New Theoretical and Critical Directions

   Edited by Robert Morrison, Daniel S. Roberts

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   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...

   Published November 22nd 2009 by Routledge
6. Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination

   By Pratima Prasad

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   This book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels—that is, novels by French authors such as Victor Hugo, George Sand, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, François René de Chateaubriand, Claire...

   Published April 27th 2009 by Routledge
7. 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 April 1st 2009 by Routledge
8. 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 December 2nd 2008 by Routledge
9. Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era

   Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity

   By Robert Mitchell

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era explores a fascinating connection between two seemingly unrelated Romantic-era discourses, outlining the extent to which eighteenth and early nineteenth century theories of sympathy were generated by crises of state finance. Through readings of authors...

   Published April 12th 2007 by Routledge
10. 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 31st 2006 by Routledge