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The books in this series renew and redefine a familiar form by recognizing that to write literary history involves more than placing texts in chronological sequence. Thus the emphasis within each volume falls both on plotting the significant literary developments of a given period, and on the wider cultural contexts within which they occurred. ‘Cultural history’ is construed in broad terms and authors address such issues as politics, society, the arts, ideologies, varieties of literary production and consumption, and dominant genres and modes. The effect of each volume is to give the reader a sense of possessing a crucial sector of literary terrain, of understanding the forces that give a period its distinctive cast, and of seeing how writing of a given period impacts on, and is shaped by, its cultural circumstances.
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| Seventeenth‐Century English Literature | Thomas N. Corns |
| Victorian Literature | James Eli Adams |
| Old English Literature, Second Edition | R. D. Fulk and Christopher M. Cain |
| Modernist Literature | Andrzej Gąsiorek |
| Eighteenth‐Century British Literature | John Richetti |
| Romantic Literature | Frederick Burwick |
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Name: Burwick, Frederick, author.
Title: A history of romantic literature / Frederick Burwick.
Description: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley‐Blackwell, 2019. | Series: Blackwell histories of literature | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2019006655 (print) | LCCN 2019018043 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119044376 (Adobe PDF) | ISBN 9781119044406 (ePub)| ISBN 9781119044352 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Romanticism–Europe–History. | European literature–18th century–History and criticism. | European literature–19th century–History and criticism.
Classification: LCC PN751 (ebook) | LCC PN751 .B87 2019 (print) | DDC 809/.9145–dc23
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Cover Image: Conrad in Prison, ‘The Corsair’ (canto 2.ix.ll. 366–77). Pencil and watercolour by Mather Brown (1814). Private collection of Frederick Burwick
Cover. Mather Brown, Conrad in Prison, The Corsair (1814) by Lord Byron. [Source: Pencil and water‐colour sketch in private collection of Frederick Burwick.]
Part I. Revolution
| Fig. 1. | James Gillray, Anti‐saccharites, – or – John Bull and his Family leaving off the use of Sugar (27 March 1792). [Source: The Works of James Gillray, from the Original Plates. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851.] |
| Fig. 2. | Thomas Rowlandson, ‘THE DEVONSHIRE, or Most Approved Method of Securing Votes’ (1784). [Source: 1783 – 1784: Political caricatures, in Rowlandson the Caricaturist: a Selection from his Works, 2 vols. Ed. Joseph Grego. London: Chatto and Windus, 1880.] |
| Fig. 3. | James Gillray, The Loss of the Faro Bank; or – the Rook's Pigeon'd. (2 February 1797). [Source: The Works of James Gillray, from the Original Plates. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851.] |
| Fig. 4. | James Gillray, Scientific Researches. New Discoveries in Pneumatics (23 May 1802). [Source: The Works of James Gillray, from the Original Plates. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851.] |
| Fig. 5. | William Blake, The Good Farmer (ca. 1780–85), [Source: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin.] |
| Fig. 6. | František Severa, Claviceps purpurea [ergot]: 1 blighted rye; 2 sclerotia; 3 germinating sclerotium. [Source: A. Tschirch, Heilpflanzen. Leipzig, 1909.] |
| Fig. 7. | William Blake, Europe (1794). Plate 9. [Source: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.] |
| Fig. 8. | William Blake, America (1793). Plate 9. [Source: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.] |
Part II. Napoleonic Wars
| Fig. 9. | Adolph Northen. Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow (1872). [Source: Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. London, 1891.] |
| Fig. 10. | Joanna Baillie, ‘George Crabbe’s Lines on Richard Monday,’ The Parish Register. [Source: Manuscript in private collection of Frederick Burwick.] |
Part III. Riots
| Fig. 11. | The Dying Gladiator, late 3rd century BC. Capitoline Museums, Rome. [Source: photograph by Jean‐Pol Grandmont.] |
| Fig. 12. | John Doyle, Samuel Rogers at his Breakfast Table. Engr. Charles Motton ca. 1823. [Source: The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers, with a Memoir. New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1853.] |
| Fig. 13. | Benjamin Haydon, Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem (1814–1820). [Source: Mount St. Mary’s Seminary, Norwood, OH.] |