The romantic west 1789-1850

The concept of generation continues to influence how Romantic writing is read and interpreted. While ‘the Romantics’ and ‘Romanticism’ are retrospective organizational terms, emerg...

Romantic Cartographies is the first collection to explore the reach and significance of cartographic practice in Romantic-period culture. Revealing the diverse ways in which the pe...

Abstract This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences. Peter McPhee provides a...

Romantic Sustainability is a collection of sixteen essays that examine the British Romantic era in ecocritical terms. Written by scholars from five continents, this international c...

The Romantic movement transformed the literary culture of Britain, and critical analysis of the nature, causes, and effects of that transformation began in the Romantic period itse...

This chapter examines both the excitement and the anxieties associated with Romantic reading. Thanks to increased literacy, heightened competition in the book trade, and technologi...

The earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world. Today the “romanticising” of nature has come to be viewe...

Jena philosophy, historicism, and literature energized nineteenth-century European intellectual life. Their key concerns were time and meaning, quintessentiallyRomantic, but they s...