Romanticism Books

New and Published Books

1. Blake and the New Age (Routledge Revivals)

   By Kathleen Raine

   First published in 1979, this is a very welcome reissue of Kathleen Raine's seminal study of William Blake - England’s only prophet. He challenged with extraordinary vigour the premises which now underline much of Western civilization, hitting hard at the ideas of a naive materialist...

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Against The Age (Routledge Revivals)

   An Introduction to William Morris

   By Peter Faulkner

   Students new to the work of William Morris will find the full range of his achievements covered in this reissue of Peter Faulkner's excellent biography, first published in 1980. The author has carefully placed Morris in the context of the Victorian age, but has also suggested the relevance of his...

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. Tracing Women's Romanticism

   Gender, History, and Transcendence

   By Kari E. Lokke

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   Awarded the 2005 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize by the International Conference on Romanticism This book explores a cosmopolitan tradition of nineteenth-century novels written in response to Germaine de Staël's originary novel of the artist as heroine, corinne. The first book to delineate the...

   Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Female Romantics

   Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism

   By Caroline Franklin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   The nineteenth century is sometimes seen as a lacuna between two literary periods. In terms of women’s writing, however, the era between the death of Mary Wollstonecraft and the 1860s feminist movement produced a coherent body of major works, impelled by an ongoing dialogue between Enlightenment ‘...

   Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. German Romanticism and Science

   The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter

   By Jocelyn Holland

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   Situated at the intersection of literature and science, Holland's study draws upon a diverse corpus of literary and scientific texts which testify to a cultural fascination with procreation around 1800. Through readings which range from Goethe’s writing on metamorphosis to Novalis’s aphorisms and...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
6. Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1830

   Nationalism, Ideology, Gender

   Edited by Alison Martin, Susan Pickford

   Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing

   This book examines how non-fictional travel accounts were rewritten, reshaped, and reoriented in translation between 1750 and 1850, a period that saw a sudden surge in the genre's popularity. It explores how these translations played a vital role in the transmission and circulation of knowledge...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. Romantic Representations of British India

   Edited by Michael J Franklin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   Michael J. Franklin's Romantic Representations of British India is a timely study of the impact of Orientalist knowledge upon British culture during the Romantic period. The subject of the book is not so much India, but the British cultural understanding of India, particularly between 1750 and 1850...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
8. Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine

   Biography, Celebrity, Politics

   By David Higgins

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   In early nineteenth-century Britain, there was unprecedented interest in the subject of genius, as well as in the personalities and private lives of creative artists. This was also a period in which literary magazines were powerful arbiters of taste, helping to shape the ideological consciousness...

   Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge
9. Dorothy Wordsworth's Ecology

   By Kenneth Cervelli

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   Dorothy Wordsworth has a unique place in literary studies. Notoriously self-effacing, she assiduously eschewed publication, yet in her lifetime, her journals inspired William to write some of his best-known poems. Memorably depicting daily life in a particular environment (most famously, Grasmere),...

   Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
10. Legacies of Romanticism

    Literature, Culture, Aesthetics

    Edited by Carmen Casaliggi, Paul March-Russell

    Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

    This book visits the Romantic legacy that was central to the development of literature and culture from the 1830s onward. Although critical accounts have examined aspects of this long history of indebtedness, this is the first study to survey both Nineteenth and Twentieth century culture. The...

    Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge