Table of Contents

Introduction. Towards a Definition. 1. Enlightenment or Romantic; Humanitarianism; Nature; Enlightenment or Sensibility; 2. Constructions of the term 'Romantic'; Politics and Literature; Poststructuralism and Romanticism; 3. Enlightenment and Romantic; Politics and Spirituality; Conservative Novelists; Historicism and Romanticism; New Radicalism; Romanticism and Conservatism; 4. Gender and the Sublime; Primary Sources; Bibliography; Index

About the Author

Aidan Day is Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Aarhus. His principal areas of research are British literature of the Romantic and Victorian periods together with post-1945 literature in English.