The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature [Paperback]

An engaging account of literary production around the turn of the nineteenth century, now available in paperback.This History presents an engaging account of literary production around the turn of the nineteenth century. The essays are designed to provide a narrative of Romantic literature and new and stimulating readings of key texts. Now in paperback, this volume is an important resource for research and teaching.This History presents an engaging account of literary production around the turn of the nineteenth century. The essays are designed to provide a narrative of Romantic literature and new and stimulating readings of key texts. Now in paperback, this volume is an important resource for research and teaching.The Romantic period was one of the most creative, intense and turbulent periods of English literature, an age marked by revolution, reaction, and reform in politics, and by the invention of imaginative literature in its distinctively modern form. This History presents an engaging account of six decades of literary production around the turn of the nineteenth century. Reflecting the most up-to-date research, the essays are designed both to provide a narrative of Romantic literature, and to offer new and stimulating readings of the key texts. One group of essays addresses the various locations of literary activity - both in England and, as writers developed their interests in travel and foreign cultures, across the world. A second set of essays traces how texts responded to great historical and social change. With a comprehensive bibliography, timeline and index, this volume will be an important resource for research and teaching in the field.General introduction James Chandler; Part I. The Ends of Enlightenment: 1. Sentiment and sensibility John Brewer; 2. Antiquarianism, balladry, and the rehabilitation of romance Susan Manning; 3. The Romantics and the political economists Catherine Gallager; 4. The problem of periodisation: Enlightenment, Romanticism, al“Ð