Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Note on texts......Page 13
Note on translations......Page 15
Timeline......Page 16
Defining Romanticism......Page 24
Critical approaches to Romanticism......Page 35
1 Contexts of Romanticism......Page 42
Historical and political contexts......Page 43
Intellectual contexts......Page 52
Social and cultural contexts......Page 61
2 Romantic forms, genres and language......Page 70
Poetry......Page 72
Prose – fiction......Page 80
Prose – non-fiction......Page 86
Drama......Page 90
Romantic language......Page 93
3 Romantic groups and associations......Page 98
The Lake School......Page 101
The Cockney School and the Holland House Set......Page 103
The Satanic School......Page 106
The Warrington Academy, the Bluestockings and the Della Cruscans......Page 108
The Peasant Poets......Page 111
4 National, regional and local Romanticism......Page 115
Union, nationhood and the ‘four nations’......Page 117
Scottish Romanticism......Page 119
Irish Romanticism......Page 123
Welsh Romanticism......Page 127
English Romanticism......Page 130
Archipelagic studies, regional Romanticism and border crossing......Page 132
5 Romanticism in the arts......Page 136
Towards Romanticism......Page 139
Romantic painting......Page 142
Architecture and sculpture......Page 155
The artistic marketplace and systems of patronage......Page 157
Popular visual arts......Page 160
Romantic music......Page 163
6 European Romanticism......Page 168
German Romanticism......Page 170
French Romanticism......Page 174
Italian Romanticism......Page 180
Spanish Romanticism......Page 187
7 Global Romanticism......Page 193
Romantic globalisation, nationhood and modernity......Page 194
Romanticism and empire......Page 197
Slavery and abolitionism......Page 199
Travel and exploration......Page 202
Migration, penal colonies and émigré experience......Page 204
Orientalism and the East......Page 208
Female writers and the East......Page 211
British India......Page 212
America, the Caribbean and the southern hemisphere......Page 214
Conclusion: Legacies of Romanticism......Page 222
Victorian, modernist and postmodernist aesthetics......Page 224
Neo-Romanticism......Page 228
Romanticism, history and postcolonialism......Page 230
Romanticism, alienation and celebrity culture......Page 231
Guide to further reading......Page 233
Bibliography......Page 240
Index......Page 274