York Notes Companions: Romantic Literature, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (June 15, 2010) © 2010

  • John Gilroy

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ISBN-13: 9781408204795
York Notes Companions: Romantic Literature
Published 2010

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Title overview

The York Notes Companion to Romantic Literature is a comprehensive introduction to the literature of an era steeped in the politics of revolution and reaction. Examining the works of first and second generation poets such as Wordsworth, Blake, Byron and Shelley alongside drama, fiction and travel writing, the Companion explores the central themes of imagination, truth and reason, heroes and anti-heroes, faith and myth, offering closer readings of texts, and guiding students through key literary theories and debates. Connecting texts with their historical and scholarly contexts, this is essential reading for any student of Romantic literature.

Table of contents

  • Part One: Introduction
  • Part Two: A Cultural Overview
  • Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts
  • Writing in Revolution: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and William Wordsworth
  • Extended commentary: Wordsworth, The Prelude (1850), Book IX, lines 436–504
  • Revolution, Reaction and the Natural World: Wordsworth and Coleridge, John Clare and William Blake
  • Extended commentary: Blake, ‘The Tyger’ from Songs of Experience (1793)
  • Dramatic writing: Horace Walpole, Robert Southey and Lord Byron
  • Extended commentary: Walpole, The Mysterious Mother (1768), V.i.312–420
  • Romantic Verse Narratives: John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Extended commentary: ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Mariner’ (1817), lines 1–40 and 610–17
  • Romantic Fiction: James Hogg, Thomas Love Peacock and Jane Austen
  • Extended commentary: Austen, Persuasion (1816), Chapter 23
  • Romantic Travel Writing: William Beckford, Lord Byron and Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Extended commentary: Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796), Letters 16 and 17
  •  Part Four: Critical Theories and Debates 
  • Imagination, Truth and Reason
  • Faith, Myth and Doubt
  • Heroes and Ant-Heroes
  • Forms of Ruin
  • Part Five: References and resources
  • Timeline
  • Further reading
  • Index

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