The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism / Edition 2

by Stuart Curran

Overview

This new edition of The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism has been fully revised and updated and includes two wholly new essays, one on recent developments in the field, and one on the rapidly expanding publishing industry of this period. It also features a comprehensive chronology and a fully up-to-date guide to further reading. For the past decade and more the Companion has been a much-admired and widely-used account of the phenomenon of British Romanticism that has inspired students to look at Romantic literature from a variety of critical angles and approaches. In this new incarnation, the volume will continue to be a standard guide for students of Romantic literature and its contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521136051
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/22/2010
Series:	Cambridge Companions to Literature
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Stuart Curran is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations vii

List of contributors ix

Preface xi

Chronology xiii

1 Romanticism and the "schools" of criticism and theory Jerrold E. Hogle 1

2 Romanticism and Enlightenment Marshall Brown 34

3 Poetry in an age of revolution P. M. S. Dawson 56

4 German Romantic Idealism Peter Thorslev 82

5 Romanticism and language William Keach 103

6 Culture's medium: the role of the Review Marilyn Butler 127

7 Publishing and the provinces in Romantic-era Britain Stephen C. Behrendt 153

8 Women readers, women writers Stuart Curran 169

9 Romantic fiction Gary Kelly 187

10 Romantic poetry: why and wherefore? Stuart Curran 209

11 The sister arts in British Romanticism Morris Eaves 229

Guide to further reading 262

Index 275

Editorial Reviews

"The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism is a strong collection of essays which should prove useful to a wide range of readers and might very well be used as a textbook in an introductory graduate seminar." Alfred Lutz, English Language Notes

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