Introduction. What is Romanticism?
Introduction: Romanticisms
British romanticism versus romanticisms
Experimentation and Innovation
“Tintern Abbey”: Case in Point
Summary
A Guide to Subsequent Chapters
Further Reading
Pertinent Websites
Works Cited
Chapter 1. Revolution and Revolutionary Writers
Introduction
The Basics
Hope
Conservative Backlash
Whigs and Tories
Romanticism as a Revolution in Thought
Summary
Further Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 2. Empire and Its Others
Introduction
Empire as Trade
Empire as Aesthetic: “Orientalism”
Indigeneity
Abolition and Literature
The Bridge Between Self and Other: Black Romanticism
Brown Romanticism
Summary
Further Reading
Pertinent Websites
Works Cited
Chapter 3. Gender Complexities, Gender Expression
Introduction
Gender Fluidity and Gender Norms
Queer Romanticisms
Summary
Further Reading
Pertinent Websites
Works Cited
Chapter 4. The Gothic Mode
Introduction
Architecture, Politics, Medievalism, Sexuality
Ghosts, Vampires, Decadence and Heroism
The Gothic as Cultural Unconscious
Delicious Terror
Summary
Further Reading
Pertinent Websites
Works Cited
Chapter 5. History, Science and the Future
Introduction
History as Knowledge and Possession
Science as Knowledge and Power
Frankenstein as History, as Science, as Futurity
The Micro and Macro Aspects of Science
History, Science and the Future
Summary
Further Reading
Pertinent Websites
Works Cited
Chapter 6. The Regency: Social Life, Celebrity, and Literature
Introduction
Social Life During the Romantic Period
Travel and Aesthetics
The Regency: A Paradox
Celebrities
Regency Corollaries
Summary
Further Reading
Pertinent Websites
Works Cited
Glossary of Terms
Romantic Timeline
Index
Biography
Elizabeth A. Fay is Professor of English Emerita at University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. She is author of seven books on Romanticism: Becoming Wordsworthian: A Performative Aesthetic (1995); A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism (1998); Romantic Medievalism: History and the Romantic Literary Ideal (2002); Fashioning Faces: The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism (2010); Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism (2021); and Afterlives of Frankenstein: Afterlives of Frankenstein (2024).
