A Handbook of Romanticism Studies

A Handbook of Romanticism Studies features a collection of original essays by leading scholars, examining  the literature of the Romantic period through the lens of critical and cultural theory. The entries explore key terms organized under the headings of Aesthetics and Media, Theories of Literature, Ideologies and Institutions, and Disciplinary Intersections. Some of these terms have been central to Romanticism studies for some time, such as imagination, sublime, and poetics. Other terms reflect critical trends of the last thirty years, including philosophy, race, historiography, and visual culture. The result is a collection which provides both introductory overviews and in–depth analyses of a variety of topics, offering a wide range of entry points to the study of Romanticism, from debates over the formal properties of high art to the impact of philosophical and scientific debates on conceptions of culture and cultural works. A Handbook of Romanticism Studies is an accessible and indispensible resource providing both students and scholars with a rich array of historical and up–to–date critical and theoretical contexts for the study of the literature and culture of the Romantic period.

Acknowledgments vii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Joel Faflak and Julia M. Wright Part 1: Aesthetics and Media 17 1 Imagination 19 Richard C. Sha 2 Sensibility 37 Julie Ellison 3 Sublime 55 Anne Janowitz 4 Periodicals 69 Kristin Flieger Samuelian and Mark Schoenfield 5 Visual Culture 87 Sophie Thomas Part 2: Theories of Literature 105 6 Author 107 Elizabeth A. Fay 7 Reader 125 Stephen C. Behrendt 8 Poetics 143 Jacqueline Labbe 9 Narrative 159 Jillian Heydt–Stevenson 10 Drama 177 David Worrall 11 Gothic 195 Jerrold E. Hogle 12 Satire 213 Steven E. Jones Part 3: Ideologies and Institutions 225 13 Historiography 227 Ted Underwood 14 Ideology 245 Orrin N. C. Wang 15 Nation and Empire 259 Julia M. Wright 16 Class 277 Michael Scrivener 17 Race 289 Peter J. Kitson 18 Gender and Sexuality 307 Kari Lokke Part 4: Disciplinary Intersections 325 19 Philosophy 327 Marc Redfield 20 Religion 339 Michael Tomko 21 Science 357 Theresa M. Kelley 22 Medicine 375 James Robert Allard 23 Psychology 391 Joel Faflak Index 409

Joel Faflak is Associate Professor of English and Theory at the University of Western Ontario. He is author of Romantic Psychoanalysis: The Burden of the Mystery (2007), co–author of Revelation and Knowledge (2011) and editor of Sanity, Madness, Transformation: The Psyche of Romanticism (2005). Julia M. Wright is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University.  She is the author of Blake, Nationalism and the Politics of Alienation (2004) and Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth–Century Literature (2007) and the editor of Irish Literature 1750–1900: An Anthology (Wiley–Blackwell, 2008) and the 2 – volume A Companion to Irish Literature (Wiley–Blackwell, 2010).