A Handbook to English Romanticism

1992
ISBN: 978-0-333-60706-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 439 g

This handbook contains information about major and minor writers, and about the historical and ideological context of the period. It allows the reader to see when works were published, what ideas went into them, and what historical events shaped them. It is the work of a team of specialists from Britain and France which will be of great value to all students of the period.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watson, J. R.

Raimond, Jean

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface - Notes on Contributors - The Abolition of the Slave Trade - Akenside, Mark (1721-1770) - The American Revolution - The Anti-Jacobin - Association - Austen, Jane (1775-1818) - Beattie, James (1735-1803) - Blake, William (1557-1827) - Bonaparte, Napoleon (1769-1821) - Burke, Edmund (1729-1797) - Burns, Robert (1759-1796) - Byron (George Gordon, sixth Lord) (1788-1824) - Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844) - Cartoons - Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770) - Clare, John (1793-1864) - Cobbett, William (1763-1864) - Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) - Constable, John (1776-1837) - Cowper, William (1731-1800) - Crabbe, George (1754-1832) - Drama - Dreams - The Fantastic - The French Revolution - German Literature - Godwin, William (1756-1836) - Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774) - The Gothic Novel - Gray, Thomas (1716-71) - Hogg, James (1770-1835) - Hunt, James H. Leigh (1784-1859) - Imagination - The Industrial Revolution - The Jacobin Novel - Keats, John (1795-1821) - Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) - Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864) - Landscape - Macpherson, James (1736-1796) The Marvellous and Occult - Maturin, Charles Robert (1780-1824) - Mediaevalism - Metre and Form - Moore, Thomas (1779-1852) - Nature - Nelson, Horatio (1758-1805) - Negative Capability - Orientalism - Paine, Thomas (1737-1809) - Painting - Palmer, Samuel (1805-1881) - Pantheism - Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866) - Periodicals - Peterloo - The Picturesque - Political Thought - Religious Thought: Wesley, Swedenborg - Robespierre, Maximilies (1759-1794) - Rogers, Samuel (1763-1855) - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) - Scott, Walter (1771-1832) - The Self - Sensibility - Shelley, Mary (1797-1851) - Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) - Smart, Christopher (1774-1771) - Southey, Robert (1774-1843) - The Sublime; - Turner, Joseph William Mallord (1775-1851) - Thomson, James (1700-1748) - Warton, Joseph (1722-1800) - Waterloo - Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of (1769-1852) - Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797) - Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771-1855) - Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) - Young, Edward (1683-1755)