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Published by Longmans, London, 1964
Seller: Global Village Books, Bundall, QLD, Australia
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. xii,340pp, index. Size: Small 8vo.
Published by Longman, 1970
Seller: Bookbot, Prague, Czech Republic
Condition: Fine. Englisch.
Published by Longmans, Green
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.
Published by Blackwell, Oxford, 1998
ISBN 10: 0631198520ISBN 13: 9780631198529
Seller: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Dust jacket unclipped. Black cloth with bright silver titling on the spine. No ownership marks. 549 pages clean and tight. The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey by an international collection of scholars, whose 52 specially commissioned contributions are aimed specifically at a student readership. Divided into four parts - Contexts and Perspectives 1790-1830; Readings; Genres and Modes; and Issues and Debates - the Companion provides students new to the subject with a vital orientation and foundation for study, and also offers senior and graduate students an important focus upon new developments and possible future directions. The following topics and subjects are covered: `Romanticism: The Brief History of a Concept', `Preromanticism', `From Revolution to Romanticism', `Beyond the Enlightenment', `Britain at War: The Historical Context', `Literature and Religion', `The Picturesque, the Beautiful and the Sublime', `The Romantic Reader', `The Romantic Drama', `The Novel', `Gothic Fiction', `Parody and Imitation', `Travel Writing', `Romantic Literary Criticism', `Romanticism and Gender', `Romanticism and Feminism', `New Historicism', `Romantic Ecology', `Psychological Approaches', `Dialogic Approaches', `The Romantic Fragment', `Performative Language and Speech-act Theory', `Slavery and Romantic Writing', `Apocalypse and Millennium', `The Romantic Imagination', 'England and Germany', `Romantic Responses to Science', `Shakespeare and the Romantics', `Milton and the Romantics'. In addition there are 22 readings of canonical and postcanonical texts, from Wordsworth's Prelude (by Jonathan Wordsworth) to Joanna Baillie's A Series of Plays (by Janice Patten) and Felicia Hemans's Records of Woman (by Adam Roberts); from Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (by David Bromwich) to Clare's The Shepherd's Calendar (by John Lucas) and Byron's Don Juan (by Jane Stabler); from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals (by Pamela Woof) to William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (by Nelson Hilton) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (by John Beer).` Contributors to this volume: John M. Anderson, Rosemary Ashton, John Beer, Stephen C. Behrendt, David Bromwich, Miranda J. Burgess, Frederick Burwick, James A. Butler, John Creaser, Damian Walford Davies, David Duff, Angela Esterhammer, Elizabeth Fay, Nelson Hilton, Anne Janowitz, Peter J. Kitson, Jacqueline M. Labbe, Beth Lau, John Lucas, Scott McEathron, David S. Miall, Michael O'Neill, Morton D. Paley, Janice Patten, Seamus Perry, Tony Pinkney, Alan Richardson, Adam Roberts, Fiona Robertson, Philip Shaw, Michael James Sider, David Simpson, Jane Stabler, Graeme Stones, John Strachan, John Sutherland, Michael J. Tolley, Nicola Trott, Mary Wedd, Douglas B. Wilson, Susan J. Wolfson, Bonnie Woodbery, Pamela Woof, Jonathan Wordsworth, Duncan Wu, Ian Wylie. Size: 4to.