LITR 316 - British Romanticism

An interdisciplinary study of shared feeling as imagined in eighteenth-century ethics and romantic literature.

Explores the world of objects and phenomena in nature as expressed in Romantic poetry.

Provides essays from multi-disciplinary scholars on the Romantic era, including insights into religious controversy and politics, empire and nationalism and the relationship of Romanticism to modernist aesthetics.

Calls our attention to common points of engagement between male and female authors of the period; offers a counterpoint to studies of women writers that stress their differences.

Why was book collecting controversial during the Romantic period, and what role has book collecting played in the history of homophobia? Robinson uncovers surprising connections between conceptions of literature and sexuality; literary materiality and queerness; and forgery, sexuality, and authorship.

Examines how writers in a culture obsessed with scientific ideas strove to produce living forms of art as analogies to biological forms.

Focuses on British Romanticism while also addressing continental and transatlantic Romanticism and earlier periods. Utilizes keywords such as imagination, sublime, poetics, philosophy, race, historiography, and visual culture as points of access to the study of Romanticism and the theoretical concerns and the culture of the period.

Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis.

In thirteen chapters devoted to artists and writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, leading scholars of the period examine the international exchanges that were crucial for the rise of Romanticism in England and the United States.

Compiles 70 of the key terms most frequently used or discussed by authors of the Romantic period – and most often deliberated by critics and literary historians of the era.

Locates Romantic poetry within a public discourse that combines politics and esthetics, nationalism and domesticity, sexuality and morality, law and legitimacy.

Sha shows how imagination helped to operationalize both scientific and literary discovery. Essentially, the imagination forced writers to consider the difference between what was possible and impossible while thinking about how that difference could be known.

Onno Oerlemans extends current eco-critical views by synthesizing a range of viewpoints from the Romantic period. He explores not only the ideas of poets and artists, but also those of philosophers, scientists, and explorers.

Argues that Charlotte Brontë was an attentive witness of the Anthropocene and created one of the first literary ecosystems animated by human-caused environmental change. Brontë combined her personal experiences, scientific knowledge, and narrative skills to document environmental change in her representations of moorlands, valleys, villages, and towns, and the processes that disrupted them, including extinction, deforestation, industrialization, and urbanization.

Discusses why six poems from 1819 that would become known as the "Great Odes" still mean so much to us.

Describes Byron as a poet's poet, a writer whose verse has served as both echo of and prompt for a host of other voices.

Explores the social and intertextual relationships that informed Byron's writing; the geopolitical contexts in which he travelled, lived and worked; the cultural and philosophical movements that influenced changing outlooks. Illuminates how we might think of Byron in context, but also as a context in his own right.

A highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a revolutionary poet who embodied the spirit of his age.

An examination of the Romantic poet's work, delving into his desire to understand the source and scope of our ethical obligations.

Addresses the views on rhetoric set forth by De Quincey, and provides an overview of his life and the cultural context for his time and place.

Analyzes the many aspects of Coleridge's literary, critical, philosophical, and theological pursuits. Divided into sections on Biography, Prose, Poetry, Sources and Influences and Reception.

Covers Hazlitt's entire life, revealing the way in which he interacted with the figures of his era and also how he interpreted his time.