Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History

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Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 6 List of figures......Page 8 Preface......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Note on texts......Page 13 Note on translations......Page 15 Timeline......Page 16 Defining Romanticism......Page 24 Critical approaches to Romanticism......Page 35 1 Contexts of Romanticism......Page 42 Historical and political contexts......Page 43 Intellectual contexts......Page 52 Social and cultural contexts......Page 61 2 Romantic forms, genres and language......Page 70 Poetry......Page 72 Prose – fiction......Page 80 Prose – non-fiction......Page 86 Drama......Page 90 Romantic language......Page 93 3 Romantic groups and associations......Page 98 The Lake School......Page 101 The Cockney School and the Holland House Set......Page 103 The Satanic School......Page 106 The Warrington Academy, the Bluestockings and the Della Cruscans......Page 108 The Peasant Poets......Page 111 4 National, regional and local Romanticism......Page 115 Union, nationhood and the ‘four nations’......Page 117 Scottish Romanticism......Page 119 Irish Romanticism......Page 123 Welsh Romanticism......Page 127 English Romanticism......Page 130 Archipelagic studies, regional Romanticism and border crossing......Page 132 5 Romanticism in the arts......Page 136 Towards Romanticism......Page 139 Romantic painting......Page 142 Architecture and sculpture......Page 155 The artistic marketplace and systems of patronage......Page 157 Popular visual arts......Page 160 Romantic music......Page 163 6 European Romanticism......Page 168 German Romanticism......Page 170 French Romanticism......Page 174 Italian Romanticism......Page 180 Spanish Romanticism......Page 187 7 Global Romanticism......Page 193 Romantic globalisation, nationhood and modernity......Page 194 Romanticism and empire......Page 197 Slavery and abolitionism......Page 199 Travel and exploration......Page 202 Migration, penal colonies and émigré experience......Page 204 Orientalism and the East......Page 208 Female writers and the East......Page 211 British India......Page 212 America, the Caribbean and the southern hemisphere......Page 214 Conclusion: Legacies of Romanticism......Page 222 Victorian, modernist and postmodernist aesthetics......Page 224 Neo-Romanticism......Page 228 Romanticism, history and postcolonialism......Page 230 Romanticism, alienation and celebrity culture......Page 231 Guide to further reading......Page 233 Bibliography......Page 240 Index......Page 274