Romanticism ─ A Literary and Cultural History

Romanticism is a crucial period of literary and cultural study and involved a move away from traditional politics and rapid advances in technology and a return to nature and imagination. It was a broad movement, involving music, art and, crucially, literature – writers such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – whose literary impact is still felt today.

Examining the poetry, fiction and non-fiction of the period, and looking at popular as well as less canonical writers, this guide addresses:

• Important propositions and landmark ideas in the Romantic period
• Key debates and critical approaches to Romantic studies
• New and revisionary approaches to Romantic literature
• A broad, global perspective on Romanticism
• The ways in which Romantic writing interacts with broader trends in history, politics and aesthetics

This clear and engaging book is the ultimate starting point for anyone new to the study of Romanticism.

Carmen Casaliggi is a Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK.

Porscha Fermanis is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland.