Romanticism

Volume 1: Definitions and Romantic Form
Introduction by Michael O'Neill
Some Twentieth-Century Constructions and Definitions
1. A. C. Bradley, 'Shelley's View of Poetry', from his Oxford Lectures on Poetry (1909) (London: Macmillan, 1965), pp. 151-74.
2. Arthur O. Lovejoy, 'On the Discrimination of Romanticisms', PMLA 39 (1924), pp. 229-53.
3. Morse Peckham, 'Toward a Theory of Romanticism', PMLA 66 (1951), pp. 5-23.
4. M. H. Abrams, 'English Romanticism: The Spirit of the Age', in his The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism (New York: Norton, 1984), pp. 44-75.
5. Harold Bloom, 'The Internalization of Quest-Romance', in Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Norton, 1970), pp. 3-24.
6. Northrop Frye, 'The Drunken Boat: The Revolutionary Element in Romanticism' in Romanticism Reconsidered: Selected Papers from the English Institute, ed. Northrop Frye (New York: Columbia UP, 1963), pp. 1-25.
7. Geoffrey H. Hartman, 'Romanticism and Anti-Self-Consciousness', in his Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays 1958-1970 (New Haven: Yale UP, 1970), pp. 298-310.
8. Jerome McGann, 'Rethinking Romanticism', English Literary History 59 (1992), pp. 735-54.
9. Charles Altieri, 'Wordsworth's Poetics of Eloquence: A Challenge to Contemporary Theory', in Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory, ed. Kenneth R. Johnston and others (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990), pp. 371-407.

Formalism and Genre

10. M. H. Abrams, 'Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric' in Frederick W. Hilles and Harold Bloom (eds.), From Sensibility to Romanticism; Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle (New York: Oxford UP,1965), pp. 527-60.
11. Stuart Curran, 'Form and Freedom in European Romantic Poetry', in his Poetic Form and British Romanticism (New York: Oxford UP, 1986), pp. 204-20.
12. Michael O'Neill, '"The Mind Which Feeds This Verse": Self- and Other-Awareness in Shelley's Poetry', Durham University Journal 85 (1993), pp. 273-92.
13. Jane Stabler, 'Transition in Byron and Wordsworth' , Essays in Criticism 50 (2000), pp. 306-28.
14. Helen Vendler, 'Keats and the Use of Poetry', in her The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1988), pp. 115-31.
15. Susan J. Wolfson, 'What Good is Formalist Criticism? Or; Forms and Storms and the Critical Register of Romantic Poetry', Studies in Romanticism 37 (1998), pp. 77-94.
16. Grant F. Scott, 'Beautiful Ruins: The Elgin Marbles Sonnet in its Historical and Generic Contexts', Keats-Shelley Journal 39 (1990), pp. 123-50.
17. Mark Sandy, '"To See as a God Sees': the Potential Ubermensch in Keats's Hyperion Fragments', Romanticism 4 (1998), pp. 212-23.
18. Nicola Trott, 'Wordsworth in the Nursery: the Parodic School of Criticism', Wordsworth Circle 32 (2001), pp. 66-77.

Volume 2: Romanticism and History

Introduction by Michael O'Neill

Contextualism and Historicisms

19. Marilyn Butler, 'Godwin, Burke, and Caleb Williams', Essays in Criticism 32 (1982), pp. 237-57.
20. John Barrell, '"Fire, Famine, and Slaughter"', Huntington Library Quarterly 63 (2000), pp. 277-98.
21. Jeffrey N. Cox, 'Keats, Shelley, and the Wealth of Imagination', Studies in Romanticism 34 (1995), pp. 365-400.
22. Richard Cronin, 'Walter Scott and Anti-Gallican Minstrelsy', English Literary History, 66 (1999), pp. 963-83.
23. Jerome J. McGann, 'Romanticism and Its Ideologies', Studies in Romanticism 21 (1982), pp. 573-99.
24. Nicholas Roe, '"A Sympathy with Power": Imagining Robespierre', in his Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1988), pp. 199-233.
25. William Keach, 'Cockney Couplets: Keats and the Politics of Style', Studies in Romanticism 25 (1986), pp. 182-96.


Orientalism and Post-Colonialism

26. Nigel Leask, 'Kubla Khan and Orientalism: The Road to Xanadu Revisted.' Romanticism 4 (1998), pp. 1-21.
27. Saree Makdisi, 'Colonial Space and the Colonization of Time in Scott's Waverley', Studies in Romanticism 34 (1995), pp. 155-87.
28. Fiona Robertson, 'British Romantic Columbiads', Symbiosis 2 (1998), pp. 1-23.
29. Helen Thomas, 'Romanticism and Abolitionism: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth', in her Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000), pp. 82-124, 289-97.

Science, Medicine, and Eco-criticism

30. Alan Richardson, 'Of Heartache and Head Injury: Minds, Brains, and the Subject of Persuasion', in his British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001), pp. 93-113, 205-8.
31. Tim Fulford and Debbie Lee. 'The Jenneration of Disease: Vaccination, Romanticism, and Revolution.' Studies in Romanticism 39 (2000), pp. 139-63.
32. Alan Bewell, 'Cholera Cured Before Hand': Coleridge, Abjection and
the "Dirty Business of Laudanum"', Romanticism 4 (1998), pp.155-173.
33. Hugh Roberts, 'Chaos and Evolution: A Quantum Leap in Shelley's Process', Keats-Shelley Journal 45 (1996), pp. 156-94.
34. Jonathan Bate, 'Living with the Weather', Studies in Romanticism 35 (1996), pp. 431-48.

Volume 3: Romanticism and the Margins

Introduction by Mark Sandy

Women's Romantic Writing

35. Jerome McGann, 'Mary Robinson and the Myth of Sappho', in The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Poetic Style (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1996), pp. 94-116. 39.
36. Judith Pascoe, '"That Fluttering, Tinselled Crew": Women Poets and Della Cruscanism', in her Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry, and Spectatorship (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1997), p. 68-94.
37. Margaret Homans, 'Keats Reading Women, Women Reading Keats', Studies in Romanticism 29.3 (1990), pp. 341-70.
38. Marlon B. Ross, 'Naturalizing Gender: Women's Place in Wordsworth's Ideological Landscape', English Literary History 53:2 (1986), pp. 391-410.
39. Jon Mee, 'Barbauld, Devotion, and the Women Prophet', in his Romanticism, Enthusiasm and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003), pp. 173-95.
40. Jonathan Wordsworth, 'Ann Yearsley to Caroline Norton: Women Poets of the Romantic Period' The Wordsworth Circle 26 (1995), pp. 114-24


'Minor' Romantics, Prose, and Drama

41. Michael O'Neill, '"Even Now While I Write": Leigh Hunt and Romantic Spontaneity', from Leigh Hunt: Life, Poetics, Politics, ed. Nicholas Roe (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 135-55.
42. Michael C. Gamer, 'Marketing a Masculine Romance: Scott, Antiquarianism, and the Gothic', Studies in Romanticism 32 (1993), pp. 523-50.
43. Pamela Clemit, 'From The Fields of Fancy to Matilda: Mary Shelley's Changing Conception of Her Novella', Romanticism 3 (1997), pp. 152-69.
44. John Kerrigan, 'Revolution, Revenge, and Romantic Tragedy', Romanticism (1995), 121-40.
45. Jonathan Bate, 'Criticism', in Shakespearean Constitutions: Politics, Theatre, Criticism 1730-1830 (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1989), pp. 144-84.
46. Marilyn Gaull, 'Joseph Johnson: Literary Alchemist', European Romantic Review 10 (1999), pp. 265-78.

Deconstruction, Reader Response, and Ontology

47. Andrew J. Bennett, 'Hazardous Magic": Vision and Inscription in Keats's The Eve of St. Agnes.' Keats-Shelley Journal 41 (1992), pp. 100-21.
48. Lucy Newlyn, 'Coleridge and the Anxiety of Reception', Romanticism, 1 (1995), pp.206-38
49. Paul de Man, 'Intentional Structure of the Romantic Image', in Romanticism and Consciousness, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Norton, 1970), pp.65-77.
50. Paul H. Fry, 'History, Existence, and 'To Autumn"', Studies in Romanticism 25 (1986), pp. 211-19.

Volume 4: Romanticism, Belief, and Philosophy

Introduction by Mark Sandy

Belief, Philosophy, and Myth

51. Charles Rosen, 'The Intense Inane: Religious Revival in English, French, and German Romanticism: M. H. Abrams, William Empson', in his Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1998), pp. 31-50
52. Morton D. Paley, 'Apocapolitics: Allusion and Structure in Shelley's The Mask of Anarchy', Huntington Library Quarterly 54:2 (1991), pp. 91-109.
53. Robert M. Ryan, '" A Sect of Dissenters"', in his The Romantic Reformation: Religious Politics in English Literature 1789-1824 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997), pp. 13-42.
54. Paul Hamilton, 'The New Romanticism: Philosophical Stand-Ins in English Romantic Discourse', Textual Practice 11:1 (1997), pp. 110-31.
55. Ross Woodman, 'Nietzsche, Blake, Keats and Shelley: The Making of a Metaphorical Body', Studies in Romanticism 29.1 (1990), pp. 115-49.
56. Seamus Perry, 'Coleridge's Millennial Embarrassments', Essays in Criticism 50 (2000), pp. 1-22.
57. Lawrence Kramer, 'The Return of the Gods: Keats to Rilke', Studies in Romanticism 17 (1978), pp. 483-500.
58. Timothy Webb, 'Romantic Hellenism', in The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, ed. Stuart Curran (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993), pp. 148-76.
59. Edward Duffy, 'The Romantic Calling of Thinking: Stanley Cavell on the line with Wordsworth.', Studies in Romanticism 37 (1998) , pp.615-45.
60. Tilottama Rajan, 'Introduction', in her Dark Interpreter: The Discourse of Romanticism (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1980), pp. 13-26.

Subjectivity, Psychology, and Sociology

61. Karen Swann, 'Christabel: The Wandering Mother and the Enigma of Form', Studies in Romanticism 23. 4 (1986), pp. 533-54.
62. Mary Jacobus, 'Wordsworth and the Language of the Dream', English Literary History 46 (1979), pp. 618-44.
63. Thomas McFarland, 'Coleridge, Prescience, Tenacity and the Origin of Sociology', Romanticism 4 (1998), pp. 40-59.