Romanticism and the City

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
The Infernal and Celestial City of Romanticism....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Nerve Theory, Sensibility, and Romantic Metrosexuals....Pages 9-23
Wordsworth’s Double-Take....Pages 25-41
John Galt, Happy Colonialist: The Case of “The Apostate; or, Atlantis Destroyed”....Pages 43-53
The Gothic Chapbook and the Urban Reader....Pages 55-72
Romantic Science and the City....Pages 73-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Phenomenal Beauty: Rousseau in Venice....Pages 87-104
E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Marketplace Vision of Berlin....Pages 105-134
Renzo in Milan....Pages 135-155
Rome Above Rome: Nikolai Gogol’s Romantic Vision of the Eternal City....Pages 157-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Wordsworth’s Invigorating Hell: London in Book 7 of the Prelude (1805)....Pages 181-195
Blake’s Golgonoosa: London and/as the Eternal City of Art....Pages 197-207
London’s Immortal Druggists: Pharmaceutical Science and Business in Romanticism....Pages 209-222
Wordsworth’s “Illustrated Books and Newspapers” and Media of the City....Pages 223-240
Babylon and Jerusalem on the Old Kent Road....Pages 241-259
Back Matter....Pages 261-283