Romanticism An Oxford Guide [Paperback]

This uniquely comprehensive and wide-ranging guide to Romantic literature presents forty-six newly commissioned chapters from an international team of contributors, both long-established scholars and cutting-edge academics. It combines an introduction to the literary and historical contexts of Romanticism with material on critical and theoretical approaches and detailed readings of Romantic texts. The volume is divided into four parts: Romantic Orientations, Reading Romanticism, Romantic Forms, and Romantic Afterlives. The last part considers the influence of Romanticism on later writers and on contemporary culture.

Part 1. Romantic Orientations
1. The Historical Context,Simon Bainbridge
2. The Literary Background,Jane Stabler
3. Classical Inheritances,Bruce Graver
4. Sensibility,Adela Pinch
5. The Visual Arts and Music,Stephen Behrendt
6. Print Culture,John Barnard
7. Romanticism and Science,Timothy Fulford
8. Religion and Philosophy,Alan Gregory
9. England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland,Fiona Stafford
10. Europe,Christopher Bode
11. Easts,Nigel Leask
12. Americas,Susan Manning
Part 2. Reading Romanticism
13. Historicist/Marxist Approaches,Kenneth Johnston
14. Feminist Approaches,Anne Mellor
15. Ecological Approaches,Jim McKusick
16. Psychoanalytic Approaches,Andrew Roberts
17. Postcolonial Approaches,Deirdre Coleman
18. Formalist Approaches,Richard Cronin
Part 3. Romantic Forms
19. Introduction to Romantic Forms,Michael O'Neill
20. The Lyric,Paul Sheats
21. Epic,Lynda Pratt
22. The Sonnet,David Fairer
23. Narrative Poetry,Peter Vassallo
24. The Novel,Corinna Russell
25. Satire,Steven Jones
26. Drama,