A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age

A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age provides new perspectives on the relationships between literature and culture in Britain from 1780 to 1830 Provides original essays from a variety of multi-disciplinary scholars on the Romantic era Includes fresh insights into such topics as religious controversy and politics, empire and nationalism, and the relationship of Romanticism to modernist aesthetics Ranges across the Romantic era's literary, visual, and non-fictional genres

A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age provides newperspectives on the relationships between literature and culture inBritain from 1780 to 1830* Provides original essays from a variety of multi-disciplinaryscholars on the Romantic era* Includes fresh insights into such topics as religiouscontroversy and politics, empire and nationalism, and therelationship of Romanticism to modernist aesthetics* Ranges across the Romantic era's literary, visual, andnon-fictional genres

List of Illustrations viiNotes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1Jon Klancher1 Transfiguring God: Religion, Revolution, Romanticism 14Robert M. Maniquis2 Romanticism and Empire 36Saree Makdisi3 "Associations Respect[ing] the Past": Enlightenment and Romantic Historicism 57Anthony Jarrells4 Nationalisms in Romantic Britain and Ireland: Culture, Politics, and the Global 77Miranda Burgess5 "With an Industry Incredible": Politics, Writing, and the Public Sphere 99Paul Keen6 Romantic Justice: Law, Literature, and Individuality 119Mark Schoenfield7 Natural History in the Romantic Period 141Noah Heringman8 Romantic Sciences: British and Continental Thresholds 168Frederick Burwick9 Consumer Culture: Getting and Spending in the Romantic Age 189Nicholas Mason10 The Romantic-Era Book Trade 212Lee Erickson11 Visual Pleasures, Visionary States: Art, Entertainment, and the Nation 232Gillen D'Arcy Wood12 What's at Stake? Kantian Aesthetics, Romantic and Modern Poetics, Sociopolitical Commitment 257Robert KaufmanIndex 283