Table of Contents

David Duff: Introduction
Part I: Historical Phases
1: Nick Groom: Romanticism before 1789
2: Jon Mee: The Revolutionary Decade
3: Simon Bainbridge: The New Century: 1800-1815
4: Kelvin Everest: Post-War Romanticism
5: Angela Esterhammer: The 1820s and Beyond
Part II: Region and Nation
6: Fiona Stafford: England and Englishness
7: Penny Fielding: Scotland and the North
8: Mary-Ann Constantine: Wales and the West
9: Jim Kelly: Ireland and Union
Part III: Hierarchies
10: Michael Bradshaw: Romantic Generations
11: Brian Goldberg: Poetry and Social Class
12: Gary Kelly: The Spectrum of Fiction
13: Anne K. Mellor: Gender Boundaries
14: Susan Manly: Literature for Children
Part IV: Legislation
15: David Worrall: Freedom of Speech
16: Gillian Russell: The Regulation of Theatres
17: Anthony Howe: Poetic Defences and Manifestos
18: William Christie: Critical Judgement and the Reviewing Profession
19: Victoria Myers: Trial Literature
Part V: Cognition
20: Thomas Keymer: The Subjective Turn
21: Noel Jackson: Literature and the Senses
22: Sharon Ruston: 'High' Romanticism: Literature and Drugs
23: Catherine Jones: Writer-Physicians
Part VI: Composition
24: Erik Simpson: Orality and Improvisation
25: Jane Stabler: Revision and Self-Citation
26: Beth Lau: Intertextual Dialogue
27: Pamela Clemit: Letters and Journals
Part VII: Publication
28: Paul Keen: Book-Making
29: Michael Gamer: Oeuvre-Making and Canon-Formation
30: Tom Mole: Celebrity and Anonymity
31: Felicity James: Romantic Readers
32: Lynda Pratt: Non-Publication
Part VIII: Language
33: Jane Hodson: Literary Uses of Dialect
34: Judith Thompson: Romantic Oratory
35: Michael Rossington: Creative Translation
36: Stephen Behrendt: The Ineffable
Part IX: Aesthetics
37: Andrew Bennett: The Romantic Lexicon
38: Tim Milnes: Literature and Philosophy
39: Gregory Dart: Practical Criticism
40: Sophie Thomas: Word and Image
41: Kirsteen McCue: The Culture of Song
Part X: Imports and Exports
42: Nicholas Halmi: The Greco-Roman Revival
43: James Watt: Orientalism and Hebraism
44: James Vigus: Continental Romanticism in Britain
45: Patrick Vincent: British Romantics Abroad
46: Fiona Robertson: Transatlantic Engagements

About the Author

David Duff is Professor of Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London and founder-director of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar. He is the author of Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre (1994) and Romanticism and the Uses of Genre (OUP, 2009), which won the ESSE Book Award for Literatures in the English Language. His edited books include Modern Genre Theory (2000), Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic
Aesthetic (2007, with Catherine Jones), and the forthcoming Oxford Anthology of Romanticism. He is currently researching the literary history of the prospectus.