Synopses & Reviews
This book provides a selective, critical guide to the best and the most typical in scholarship and criticism on literature of the Romantic period, 1780-1830. A list of references is provided at the end of each chapter, and there are individual chapters on the main poets and novelists of the period, as well as chapters on women poets, women novelists, male poets, political prose, and essayists. The Introduction surveys general studies of the period. Through its interacting perspectives, the book offers an invaluable resource to students of the period.
Table of Contents
General studies of the Romantic period / Michael O'Neill -- William Blake / David Fuller -- William Wordsworth / Nicholas Roe -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Nicola Trott -- Lord Byron / Andrew Nicholson -- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Jerrold E. Hogle -- John Keats / Greg Kucich -- John Clare / P. M. S. Dawson -- Women poets of the Romantic period / Jennifer Breen -- Poetry by Burns, Cowper, Crabbe, Southey, and other male authors / Michael Rossington -- Walter Scott / Fiona Robertson -- Jane Austen / Fiona Stafford -- Thomas Love Peacock / J. P. Donovan -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / Pamela Clemit -- Fiction of the Romantic period (Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Bage, Edgeworth, Burney, Inchbald, Hays, and others) / Susan Matthews -- Romantic Gothic / Peter Garside -- Essayists of the Romantic period (De Quincey, Hazlitt, Hunt, and Lamb) / Robert Morrison -- Political prose of the Romantic period / John Whale