The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature (SOUTH ASIA EDITION)

About the Book: Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature The Romantic period was one of the most creative intense andturbulent periods of English literature an age marked byrevolution reaction and reform in politics and by the inventionof imaginative literature in its distinctively modern form. ThisHistory presents an engaging account of six decades of literaryproduction around the turn of the nineteenth century. Reflectingthe most up-to-date research the essays are designed both toprovide a narrative of Romantic literature and to offer new andstimulating readings of the key texts. One group of essaysaddresses the various locations of literary activity - both inEngland and as writers developed their interests in travel andforeign cultures across the world. A second set of essays traceshow texts responded to great historical and social change. With acomprehensive bibliography timeline and index this volume is animportant resource for research and teaching in the field. Contents General Introduction Part I. The Ends of Enlightenment: 1. Sentiment and sensibility 2. Antiquarianism balladry and the rehabilitation ofromance 3. The Romantics and the political economists 4. The problem of periodisation: Enlightenment Romanticism andthe fate of system Part II. Geographies: The Scenes of Literary Life: 5. London in the 1790s 6. Edinburgh and lowland Scotland 7. Romantic Ireland: 1750-1845 8. France Germany America 9. The Warm South Esther Schor 10. Country matters 11. Romanticism and the wider world: poetry travel literatureand Empire 12. The homes of England 13. Writing reading and the scenes of war 14. Regency London Part III. Histories: Writing in the New Movements: 15. Rebellion revolution reform: the transit of theintellectuals 16. Changes in the world of publishing 17. The new poetries 18. Romanticism and poetic autonomy 19. Transformations of the novel - I 20. Transformations of the novel - II 21. Theatre performance and urban spectacle