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Investigates the meaning of 'life' in British Romantic poetry and poetics - analyzing the work of Blake, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, and others - to open up fresh terrain in Romantic poetry's relation to literary theory, the history of philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics.

Features assessments of De Quincey as essayist, addict, economist, subversive, biographer, autobiographer, aesthete, innovator, hedonist, and much else.

In The Evolution of Blake's Myth, Sheila A. Spectorestablishes the dimensions of the myth that structures Blake's thought. She demonstrates how Blake used the myth hermeneutically, as the horizon of expectations for interpreting not only his own work, but the Bible and the visionary texts of others, as well.

Explores a connection between two unrelated Romantic-era discourses, outlining the extent to which eighteenth and early nineteenth century theories of sympathy were generated by crises of state finance. This work establishes the ways in which crises of state finance encouraged the development of theories of sympathy.

Considering how literary magazines in early nineteenth-century Britain debated the nature of genius, as well as how and why they constructed particular creative artists as geniuses, this is a useful work for those working on Romantic literature. This book bridges the gap between Romantic and Victorian literary history.

Marggraf Turley examines how, for Keats, an insistence on 'boyishness' in the midst of apparent mature imagery is the very essence of his political contestation of the literary establishment.

Investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. This title studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels comprehend and construct colonized peoples, fashion French identity in the context of colonialism, and record the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans.

this volume argues that the kunstlerromane of Mary Shelley, Bettine von Arnim, and George Sand offer feminist understandings of history and transcendence that constitute a critique of Romanticism from within.

Presents a study that draws upon a corpus of literary and scientific texts that testify to a cultural fascination with procreation around 1800. Through readings from Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter, this title proposes that each author contributes to a scientifically-informed poetics of procreation.

Highlighting the independence in his critical approach and use of poetic language, this book provides a fascinating account of the significant impact of Hunt's works on audiences during the Romantic period.

In The Evolution of Blake's Myth, Sheila A. Spectorestablishes the dimensions of the myth that structures Blake's thought. She demonstrates how Blake used the myth hermeneutically, as the horizon of expectations for interpreting not only his own work, but the Bible and the visionary texts of others, as well.

This volume offers new perspectives on the relationship between Romanticism and philosophy. Essays visit literary writing as a form of thinking, investigating how Romantic literature engages with European thought, from 18th- and 19th-C philosophy to contemporary theory. Chapters read Romantic texts both as critical response

The essays in this collection examine the on-going influence of Romanticism in the long nineteenth century on American thinking about education, as depicted in literary texts, in historical accounts of classroom dynamics, or in pedagogical treatises. They also point out that though this influence was generally progressive, the benefits of this s

Romantic writings were characterized by privatism¿a sexual, economic and ontological withdrawal from otherness. Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing: A Public of One explores how this threefold ideology was both propagated and resisted, wittingly and unwittingly.

This collection of previously unpublished essays is an essential contribution to a vital new aspect of Romantic studies and shows Hazlitt to be, as his memorial claims, 'The first (unanswered) Metaphysician of the age'.