List of Illustrations
General Editors' Preface
General Introduction
Introduction
What Is Romanticism?
Historical Definitions and Conceptualisations of Romanticism
1 Contexts: History, Politics, Culture
British Politics 1789-1815
British Politics 1815-1832
Empire and Travel
Feminism and the Position of Women
Industry and Economics
Ireland and the 'Catholic Question'
Leisure, Fashion and Sport
Medicine and Science
Music
Political Protest and Popular Radicalism
Religion and Atheism
Sexualities
Slavery, Abolition and African-British Literature
2 Texts: Themes, Issues, Concepts
Literary and Philosophical Key Concepts Ⅰ:The First Generation Romantic Poets (Wordsworth,Coleridge, Blake, Smith, Robinson)
Literary and Philosophical Key Concepts Ⅱ:The Second Generation Romantic Poets (Byron,Shelley, Keats, Hemans, Landon)
Joanna Baillie and Romantic-era Drama
William Blake and Romantic-era Art
Irish, Scottish and Welsh Poetry
Medievalism, the Sublime and the Gothic
Millenarianism
The Novel
'Peasant' or Labouring-class Poets
Reviews, Magazines and the Essay
Satire
3 Criticism: Approaches, Theory, Practice
Contemporary and Victorian Reception
Twentieth-century Criticism from Modernism to the New Criticism
Modern Critical Approaches Ⅰ: From Deconstruction to Psychoanalytical Criticism
Modern Critical Approaches Ⅱ: From Historicism to Ecological Criticism
Modern Critical Approaches Ⅲ: Gender Criticism
Epilogue: The Expansion of the Romantic Canon
Chronology and Necrology
Index