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Tables of Contents for English Romanticism
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Part I. The Human Context
1
172
People during the Romantic Age
3
9
The Literary Marketplace
12
38
Publishers
12
4
The Reviews
16
4
William Hazlitt
20
7
Magazines
27
4
Leigh Hunt
31
3
Thomas De Quincey
34
8
Newspapers
42
3
William Cobbett
45
2
Religious Tracts: Hannah More
47
3
Children's Literature and Education
50
31
The Didactic Background
50
3
Rousseau and His Influence
53
2
Maria Edgeworth
55
3
Educational Systems
58
6
William Godwin
64
2
Charles and Mary Lamb
66
5
Poems for Children
71
4
Robert Southey and ``The Three Bears''
75
3
The Birth of Fantasy
78
3
The Theater
81
28
Licensed Theaters
81
4
Unlicensed Theaters
85
4
Pantomime
89
2
Melodrama
91
4
Actors
95
6
Poets as Playwrights
101
4
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
105
4
Poets and a Gallery of ``Sophisters, Economists, and Calculators''
109
36
Poetry and Power
109
4
Adam Smith
113
4
Thomas R. Malthus
117
3
Jeremy Bentham
120
3
Edmund Burke
123
3
Thomas Paine
126
3
Mary Wollstonecraft
129
2
William Godwin
131
4
Robert Owen
135
4
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
139
3
Poets and Politics
142
3
Heroes and Heroism
145
28
The Decline of Heroism
145
2
The Royal Family and Friends
147
6
Beau Brummell
153
3
Religious Heroes
156
7
Warrior Heroes: Nelson, Wellington, and Napoleon
163
5
The Byronic Hero
168
5
Part II. The Illusion of History
173
114
Inventing the Past
175
33
The Uses of the Bible
176
4
The Druids
180
2
The Hellenic Revival
182
3
The Erotic Theme
185
4
The Platonic Theme
189
2
The Elgin Marbles
191
1
Dionysus in England
192
2
Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Hellenic Fulfillment
194
12
The Hellenic Twilight
206
2
Natural History and Its Illusion
208
19
Geological Forces
208
5
John Martin: Painter of Catastrophism
213
3
Romantic Melancholy
216
2
The Reality of Death
218
2
John Keats: The Temple of Melancholy
220
7
The Gothic
227
29
The Early Gothic Novel: Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe
227
3
Sensibility and the Gothic
230
1
The Sublime and the Gothic Romance
231
2
Gothic Terror: William Beckford and Matthew ``Monk'' Lewis
233
4
The Grotesque: Henry Fuseli's Nightmare
237
3
Shifts in Gothic Taste
240
2
Parodying Gothic: Jane Austen and Thomas Love Peacock
242
5
The Psychological Gothic: Mary Shelley
247
2
John Polidori's The Vampyre
249
2
Charles Maturin's Melmouth the Wanderer
251
1
James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner
252
3
The Role of the Gothic
255
1
Bards and Minstrelsy
256
31
The Appeal of Antiquarianism
257
2
Percy's Reliques
259
2
The Minstrel: James Beattie and Thomas Chatterton
261
2
Robert Burns
263
4
Collectors and Antiquarians
267
1
Sir Walter Scott: Minstrel Historian
268
9
Thomas Carlyle: The Historian as Bard
277
6
History and Poetry
283
4
Part III. The Experimental Arts: Poetry, Painting, Science
287
90
The Poetry of Life: The Philosophical Background
289
33
Tradition and Creativity
289
2
Empiricism: Hartley and Wordsworth
291
4
Idealism: Berkeley and the Poets
295
1
The Common Sense Philosophers
296
1
Physiognomy and Phrenology
297
2
Fragmented Philosophy and Philosophical Poetry
299
2
The Imagination
301
8
William Wordsworth
309
8
Wordsworth and the Guidebooks
317
5
Painting and the Other Visual Arts
322
29
The Awakening of the Visual Arts
322
1
William Blake
323
4
The State of the Arts
327
2
The Professionalization of the Fine Arts
329
4
Benjamin Robert Haydon: Exemplary Failure
333
1
Illustration and Portraiture
334
3
Physiognomy, Natural History, and Animal Painting
337
2
Painting Animals and Illustrating Natural History
339
2
John Constable: Painting as Earth Science
341
4
J. M. W. Turner: Painting as Physical Science
345
6
Science
351
26
The Chain of Being and the Chain of Life
352
2
Analogical Thinking
354
2
Electricity
356
2
Naturphilosophie
358
1
What Is Life?
359
1
Science and Poetry
360
1
Humphry Davy: Poet Scientist
361
3
Science and ``The Household of Man''
364
3
The Professionalization of Science
367
3
Science and Technology
370
2
The Limits of Knowledge
372
2
Enfranchisement of the Human Imagination
374
3
Notes
377
40
Index
417