The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 5, Romanticism

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This volume of the celebrated Cambridge History of Literary Criticism series, first published in 2000, addresses literary criticism of the Romantic period, chiefly in Europe. Its seventeen chapters are by internationally-respected academics and explore a range of key topics and themes. The book is designed to help readers locate essential information and to develop approaches and viewpoints for a deeper understanding of issues discussed by Romantic critics or those that were fundamental to their works. Primary and secondary bibliographies provide a guide for further research. The coverage of the book, focusing on themes and genres but drawing in discussion of the key authors, makes it the standard reference work on the period c.1780–c.1830. These remain in many ways the formative years for modern Anglo-American as well as European literary history. Title Page Contents Contributors Introduction 1 Classical standards in the period 2 Innovation and modernity 3 The French Revolution 4 Transcendental philosophy and Romantic criticism 5 Nature 6 Scientific models 7 Religion and literature 8 Language theory and the art of understanding 9 The transformation of rhetoric 10 Romantic irony 11 Theories of genre 12 Theory of the novel 13 The impact of Shakespeare 14 The vocation of criticism and the crisis of the republic of letters 15 Women, gender and literary criticism 16 Literary history and historicism 17 Literature and the other arts Bibliography