Key Concepts in Romantic Literature (Key Concepts: Literature, 1) - Softcover

Moore, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403948895 ISBN 13: 9781403948892

Publisher: Red Globe Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book provides a succinct yet wide-ranging critical overview of key concepts and texts in Romanticism that surveys the major genres and offers a comprehensive account of Romantic criticism and theory. It is aimed at both the undergraduate student and more experienced readers who seek a compact yet comprehensive up-to-date account of the poetry, drama and novels that characterized the Romantic period.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Key Concepts in Romantic Literature is an accessible and easy-to-use scholarly guide to the literature, criticism and history of the culturally rich and politically turbulent Romantic era (1789-1832). The book offers a comprehensive and critically up-to-date account of the fascinating poetry, novels and drama which characterized the Romantic period alongside an historically-informed account of the important social, political and aesthetic contexts which shaped that body of writing.

The epochal poetry of William Wordsworth, William Blake, Mary Robinson, S. T. Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, P. B. Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats, Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon; the drama of Joanna Baillie and Charles Robert Maturin; the novels of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley; all of these figures and many more are insightfully discussed here, together with clear and helpful accounts of the key contexts of the age's literature (including the French Revolution, slavery, industrialisation, empire and the rise of feminism) as well as accounts of perhaps less familiar aspects of late Georgian culture (such as visionary spirituality, atheism, gambling, fashion, music and sport). This is the broadest guide available to late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British and Irish literature, history and culture.

About the Author

JANE MOORE is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University, UK. She is an experienced teacher of Romantic women's writing and Romantic poetry and has published widely in these fields, most particularly, Mary Wollstonecraft (1999) and, more recently, The Satires of Thomas Moore (2003). She is co-editor (with Catherine Belsey) of The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism, (2nd Edition, 1997).

Edition details

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1403948895
• ISBN 13: 9781403948892
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224