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11. Romanticism, History, Historicism

    Essays on an Orthodoxy

    Edited by Damian Walford Davies

    Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

    The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism’s revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment...

    Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
12. Keats and Philosophy

    The Life of Sensations

    By Shahidha Bari

    Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

    John Keats remains one of the most familiar and beloved of English poets, but has received surprisingly little critical attention in recent years. This study is a fresh contribution to Keats criticism and Romantic scholarship, positioning Keats as a figure of philosophical interest who warrants...

    Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
13. Animality in British Romanticism

    The Aesthetics of Species

    By Peter Heymans

    Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

    The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species. This book examines literary representations of human and non-human animality in British Romanticism. The book’s novel approach focuses on the role of...

    Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
14. Poetic Language and Political Engagement in the Poetry of Keats

    By Jack L. Siler

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    In this incisive volume Siler traces the uneasy relationship between the content of Keats' poems and social history. In the process, he discovers that the early poems are linked with the mission statement of the radical journal Annals of the Fine Arts, whilst the poems after Endymion reveal a...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
15. Alexander von Humboldt's Translantic Personae

    Edited by Vera Kutzinski

    Who was Alexander von Humboldt? Was he really a lone genius? Was he another European apologist for colonialism in the Americas or the father of Latin American independence? Was he a roving Romanticist, or did his sensibilities belong to the Enlightenment? Naturalist, philosopher, historian, and...

    Published January 12th 2012 by Routledge
16. Heidegger and the Romantics

    The Literary Invention of Meaning

    By Pol Vandevelde

    Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

    While there are many books on the romantics, and many books on Heidegger, there has been no book exploring the connection between the two. Pol Vandevelde’s new study forges this important link. Vandevelde begins by analyzing two models that have addressed the interaction between literature and...

    Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
17. Romanticism

    2nd Edition

    By Aidan Day

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and critical issues of this crucial era. This fully updated...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
18. Romanticism and Modernity

    Edited by Thomas Pfau, Robert Mitchell

    Though traditionally defined as a relatively brief time period - typically the half century of 1780-1830 - the "Romantic era" constitutes a crucial, indeed unique, transitional phase in what has come to be called "modernity," for it was during these fifty years that myriad disciplinary, aesthetic,...

    Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge
19. The Meaning of Life in Romantic Poetry and Poetics

    By Ross Wilson

    Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

    This volume brings together an impressive range of established and emerging scholars to investigate the meaning of ‘life’ in Romantic poetry and poetics. This investigation involves sustained attention to a set of challenging questions at the heart of British Romantic poetic practice and theory. Is...

    Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
20. Byron & Shakespeare - Wils Kni

    By Wilson Knight

    Published May 23rd 2011 by Routledge