A Handbook to English Romanticism - Brossura

 
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This handbook provides a guide to English Romanticism for students of English literature. It contains factual information about the authors, major and minor, including dates of publication and other biographical information. It also sets the work of the individual authors in context by including sections on historical movements, such as the Industrial Revolution, the abolition of the slave trade and the French revolution. Jean Raimond is the author of "Robert Southey, L'Homme et Son Temps, Son Oeuvre, l'Oeuvre, le Role" and "Visages du Romantisme Anglais", and co-author of "Le Preromantisme Anglais" (avec Pierre Arnaud"). J.R. Watson is the author of "Wordsworth's Vital Soul", "English Poetry of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830" and "The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins", and editor of "Everyman's Book of Victorian Verse".

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Preface - Notes on Contributors - The Abolition of the Slave Trade - Akenside, Mark (1721-1770) - The American Revolution - The Anti-Jacobin - Association - Austen, Jane (1775-1818) - Beattie, James (1735-1803) - Blake, William (1557-1827) - Bonaparte, Napoleon (1769-1821) - Burke, Edmund (1729-1797) - Burns, Robert (1759-1796) - Byron (George Gordon, sixth Lord) (1788-1824) - Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844) - Cartoons - Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770) - Clare, John (1793-1864) - Cobbett, William (1763-1864) - Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) - Constable, John (1776-1837) - Cowper, William (1731-1800) - Crabbe, George (1754-1832) - Drama - Dreams - The Fantastic - The French Revolution - German Literature - Godwin, William (1756-1836) - Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774) - The Gothic Novel - Gray, Thomas (1716-71) - Hogg, James (1770-1835) - Hunt, James H. Leigh (1784-1859) - Imagination - The Industrial Revolution - The Jacobin Novel - Keats, John (1795-1821) - Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) - Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864) - Landscape - Macpherson, James (1736-1796) The Marvellous and Occult - Maturin, Charles Robert (1780-1824) - Mediaevalism - Metre and Form - Moore, Thomas (1779-1852) - Nature - Nelson, Horatio (1758-1805) - Negative Capability - Orientalism - Paine, Thomas (1737-1809) - Painting - Palmer, Samuel (1805-1881) - Pantheism - Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866) - Periodicals - Peterloo - The Picturesque - Political Thought - Religious Thought: Wesley, Swedenborg - Robespierre, Maximilies (1759-1794) - Rogers, Samuel (1763-1855) - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) - Scott, Walter (1771-1832) - The Self - Sensibility - Shelley, Mary (1797-1851) - Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) - Smart, Christopher (1774-1771) - Southey, Robert (1774-1843) - The Sublime; - Turner, Joseph William Mallord (1775-1851) - Thomson, James (1700-1748) - Warton, Joseph (1722-1800) - Waterloo - Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of (1769-1852) - Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797) - Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771-1855) - Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) - Young, Edward (1683-1755)

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