Product Description: Awarded the Elma Dangerfield Prize by the International Byron Society in 2013 The nineteenth century is sometimes seen as a lacuna between two literary periods. In terms of women’s writing, however, the era between the death of Mary Wollstonecraft and the 1860s feminist movement produced a coherent body of major works, impelled by an ongoing dialogue between Enlightenment ‘feminism’ and late Romanticism...read more

Product Description: Gothic verse liberated the dark side of Romantic and Victorian verse: its medievalism, melancholy and morbidity.  Some poets intended merely to shock or entertain, but Gothic also liberated the creative imagination and inspired them to enter disturbing areas of the psyche and to portray extreme states of human consciousness...read more

Product Description: Lord Byron (1788-1824) was a poet and satirist, as famous in his time for his love affairs and questionable morals as he was for his poetry. Looking beyond the scandal, Byron leaves us a body of work that proved crucial to the development of English poetry and provides a fascinating counterpoint to other writings of the Romantic period...read more

Product Description: First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: These essays explore the remarkable expansion of publishing from 1750 to 1850 which reflected the growth of literacy, and the diversification of the reading public. Experimentation with new genres, methods of advertising, marketing and dissemination, forms of critical reception and modes of access to writing are also examined in detail...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This important collection of review articles makes it possible to trace the critical reputations of both major and minor British Romantic poets at the hands of first their contemporaries and then the principal Victorian critics.The collection also enables the reader to perceive the growing influence of Romanticism on the thinking of those critics of the second half of the nineteenth century who were instrumental in forming the canon of English Literature and instituting it as a field of study in the universities for the first time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: "Alas! the love of women! it is known/ To be a lovely and fearful thing!" (Don Juan, st. 199) Traditionally seen as an archetypal masculine poet, better known for his relationships with women than for the sympathetic study of them, Lord Byron has not lent himself easily to a feminist critique...read more