Romanticism
An Oxford Guide
ISBN13: 9780199258406ISBN10: 0199258406
Paperback,
760 pages
Feb 2005,
In Stock
Price:
$45.95 (04)Description
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.Features
- The size and range of this book makes it much more comprehensive than any of its competitors.
- Combines an introduction to the literary and historical contexts with material on critical and theoretical approaches.
- Includes 46 newly-commissioned chapters from an international team of scholars, combining figures with long-established reputations with younger cutting-edge academics.
- There is an entire section devoted to 'Romantic Afterlives', which considers the influence of Romanticism on later writers and on contemporary culture.
About the Author(s)
Nicholas Roe is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews. He has published extensively on Wordsworth and Coleridge and he is the author of John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (OUP, 1998).
