Romanticism

Aidan Day considers the history and usage of the term Romanticism, and the changing views and debates which surround it. He traces its history through nineteenth and twentieth-century readings, incorporating contemporary debates such as feminism, post-structuralism and new historicism. Day places the traditional canon in the wider context of their contemporary political and philosophical thinkers. A range of writers, both canonical and non-canonical, are included in his survey, including:
* William Blake
* William Wordsworth
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge
* John Keats
* Shelley
* Edmund Blake
* Thomas Paine
* Mary Wollstonecraft
* Jane Austen
* Charlotte Smith
* Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Romanticism takes a clear, wide-ranging view of the subject and is essential reading for students new to the subject.