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Book Synopsis* Compiled as a cutting--edge critical companion to the major anthology. * Contains 18 key essays on Romanticism written in the last 10 years. * Represents a wide range of theoretical approaches. * Major contributors include Edward Said, Jerome J. McGann, Marilyn Butler, Tom Paulin and others. .
Table of ContentsIntroduction.
A Note on Texts and Abbreviations.
Acknowledgements.
Abbreviations.
Blake:.
1. Blakean Zen: Nelson Hilton.
2. Blake's Concept of the Sublime: Vincent Arthur De Luca.
Wordsworth:.
3. Wordsworth, Rousseau and the Politics of Education: James K. Chandler.
4. The History of Imagination: Alan Liu.
Coleridge: .
5. 'Kubla Khan' and the Art of Thingifying: Kathleen M. Wheeler.
6.'Christabel': The Wandering Mother and the Enigma of form: Karen Swan.
Shelley: .
7. Adonais : Shelley's Consumption of Keats: James A. W. Heffernan. .
8. Deconstruction or Reconstruction: Reading Shelley's Prometheus Unbound (Tilottama Rajan) .
Byron: .
9. Don Juan and Byron's Imperceptiveness to the English Word: Peter J. Manning.
10. Byron and the Anonymous Lyric: Jerome J. McGann.
Keats:.
11. The Two Hyperions : Compositions and Decompositions: Balachandra Rajan.
12. Imagination and Growth in the Great Odes: Leon Waldoff.
Other Writers: .
13. Godwin, Burke and Caleb Williams: Marylin Butler.
14. Murder Incorporated: Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Eve Kosofsky Sedwick.
15. Bearing Demons: Frankenstein's Circumvention of the Maternal: Margaret Homas.
16. John Clare in Babylon: Tom Paulin.
17. 'A Revolution in Female Manners': Anne K. Mellor.
18. Jane Austen and Empire: Edward Said.
List of Contributors.
Bibliography.
Index.
