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Individual essays examine the philosophical underpinnings of Romantic discourse; they survey analogous and competing discourses of the period such as mesmerism, Hellenism, orientalism and nationalism; and analyse both the manifestations of Romanticism in particular historical and textual moments.
List of contents
Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction
Stephen Copley and John Whale 2. 'A Shadow of Magnitude': The Dialectic of Romantic Aesthetics
Paul Hamilton 3. Land of the Giants: Gaps, Limits and Audiences in Coleridge's 'Biographia Literaria'
Stephen Bygrave 4. Shelley's 'Magnetic Ladies': Romantic Mesmerism and the Politics of the Body
Nigel Leask 5. 'Jerusalem' and Nationalism
Susan Matthews 6. 'The Voice Which is Contagion to the World': The Bacchic in Shelley
Michael Rossington 7. The Wanton Muse: Politics and Gender in Gothic Theory after 1760
Harriet Guest 8. Plagiarism with a Difference: Subjectivity in 'Kubla Khan' and 'Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark'
Jane Moore 9. De Quincey and Women
Angela Leighton 10. Women Writing and Revolution: Narratives of History and Sexuality in Wollstonecraft and Williams
Vivien Jones 11. Wordsworth and the Use of Charity
Robin Jarvis 12. Sacred Objects and the Sublime Ruins of Art
John Whale; Bibliography; Index
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Summary
Individual essays examine the philosophical underpinnings of Romantic discourse; they survey analogous and competing discourses of the period such as mesmerism, Hellenism, orientalism and nationalism; and analyse both the manifestations of Romanticism in particular historical and textual moments.
