Book Series in Literature

Routledge Studies in Romanticism

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Romanticism and Visuality

Fragments, History, Spectacle

By Sophie Thomas

This book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual,…

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February 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-87579-0 (Routledge)

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Thomas De Quincey

New Theoretical and Critical Directions

Edited by Robert Morrison, Daniel S. Roberts

The ongoing critical fascination with Thomas De Quincey and the burgeoning recognition of the centrality of his writings to the Romantic age and beyond necessitates…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-87668-1 (Routledge)

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Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination

By Pratima Prasad

This book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels—that…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99467-5 (Routledge)

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German Romanticism and Science

The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter

By Jocelyn Holland

Situated at the intersection of literature and science, Holland's study draws upon a diverse corpus of literary and scientific texts which testify to a cultural…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99326-5 (Routledge)

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The Meaning of "Life" in Romantic Poetry and Poetics

By Ross Wilson

This volume brings together an impressive range of established and emerging scholars to investigate the meaning of ‘life’ in Romantic poetry and poetics. This investigation…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95668-0 (Routledge)

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Romanticism, History, Historicism

Essays on an Orthodoxy

Edited by Damian Walford Davies

The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96112-7 (Routledge)

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Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era

Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity

By Robert Mitchell

Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era explores a fascinating connection between two seemingly unrelated Romantic-era discourses, outlining the extent to which eighteenth and…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77142-9 (Routledge)

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Romantic Representations of British India

Edited by Michael J. Franklin

Michael J. Franklin's Romantic Representations of British India is a timely study of the impact of Orientalist knowledge upon British culture during the Romantic period.

The…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37827-7 (Routledge)

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Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine

Biography, Celebrity, Politics

By David Higgins

In early nineteenth-century Britain, there was unprecedented interest in the subject of genius, as well as in the personalities and private lives of creative artists.…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-33556-0 (Routledge)

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Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene

A Reception History of his Major Works, 1805-1828

By Michael Eberle-Sinatra

Leigh Hunt’s contributions to English literature, although downplayed for several decades, are now acknowledged by scholars as key to our understanding of the Romantic period.…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31676-7 (Routledge)

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Series Details:

This series presents the latest research into and criticism of Romanticism. Books will consider both canonical and non-canonical literature, and the series as a whole aims to present a range of research, unconfined by any particular approach or school of thought.

Forthcoming Titles:

The Female Romantics: Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism
By Caroline Franklin
To be published August 1st 2010