Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in Romanticism

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

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

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This collection of previously unpublished essays is an essential contribution to a vital new aspect of Romantic studies and shows Hazlitt to be, as his memorial claims, 'The first (unanswered)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

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 responses to the debates that have shaped the history of philosophy, and as thought experiments in their own right. They examine the poetic philosophy of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley, Keats and Clare, also considering other literary genres as philosophically significant. This book challenges our understanding not only of Romanticism, but of `literature¿ and `philosophy.¿

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 social change did not reach many parts of American society. This book is therefore an important reference for scholars of Romantic studies, American studies, historical pedagogy and education.

Intended for students and academics involved with literary studies and history, this is an exploration of the British cultural understanding of India. The essays within this collection cover a wide range of topics and are written by a troupe of contributors including P J Marshall, Anne Mellor and Nigel Leask.

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.

Taking into account key movements, such as late 19th century aestheticism, early 20th century Modernism, postmodernism and post-colonialism, the book shows how these developments were not only informed by Romanticism, but also revealed it to be a more plural and less stable concept.

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.

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.

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.

Students and academics involved with literary studies and history will find this exploration of the British cultural understanding of India extremely useful. The essays within this collection cover a wide range of topics and are written by an impressive troupe of contributors including P.J. Marshall, Anne Mellor and Nigel Leask.