Romantic Writings

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Stephen Bygrave
Routledge, Sep 29, 2017 - Literary Criticism - 368 pages
Romantic Writings is an ideal introduction to the cultural phenomenon of Romanticism - one of the most important European literary movements and the cradle of 'Modern' culture.
Here you will find an accessible introduction to the well-known male Romantic writers - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. Alongside are chapters dealing with poems by Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Ann Barbauld, Elizabeth Barrett Browning which challenge the idea that these men are the only Romantic writers. As a further counterpoint the book also includes discussion of two German Romantic short stories by Kleist and Hoffman. Throughout, close-reading of texts is matched by an insistence on reading them in their historical context.
Romantic Writings offers invaluable discussions of issues such as the notion of the Romantic artist; colonialism and the exotic; and the particular situation of women writers and readers.

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Contents

Preface
CHAPTER TWO Versions of British Romantic writing
CHAPTER THREE Defences of poetry
CHAPTER FOUR Women writers and readers
CHAPTER FIVE Reading The Prelude
CHAPTER SIX Romantic verse narrative
CHAPTER SEVEN Reading Byron
CHAPTEREIGHT Women poets 17801830
CHAPTER NINE Romantic allegory
CHAPTER TEN Colonialism and the exotic
CHAPTERELEVEN Reading Kleist and Hoffmann
CONCLUSION
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