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

List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Jon Klancher 1 Transfiguring God: Religion, Revolution, Romanticism 14 Robert M. Maniquis 2 Romanticism and Empire 36 Saree Makdisi 3 “Associations Respect[ing] the Past”: Enlightenment and Romantic Historicism 57 Anthony Jarrells 4 Nationalisms in Romantic Britain and Ireland: Culture, Politics, and the Global 77 Miranda Burgess 5 “With an Industry Incredible”: Politics, Writing, and the Public Sphere 99 Paul Keen 6 Romantic Justice: Law, Literature, and Individuality 119 Mark Schoenfield 7 Natural History in the Romantic Period 141 Noah Heringman 8 Romantic Sciences: British and Continental Thresholds 168 Frederick Burwick 9 Consumer Culture: Getting and Spending in the Romantic Age 189 Nicholas Mason 10 The Romantic-Era Book Trade 212 Lee Erickson 11 Visual Pleasures, Visionary States: Art, Entertainment, and the Nation 232 Gillen D’Arcy Wood 12 What’s at Stake? Kantian Aesthetics, Romantic and Modern Poetics, Sociopolitical Commitment 257 Robert Kaufman Index 283