David Duff studied in York and taught in Poland at the Nicholas Copernicus University of Torun and the University of Gdansk before moving to Scotland. He has published widely on Romantic poetics and book history. His previous publications include Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre (1994), an anthology of Modern Genre Theory (2000), and a co-edited collection, Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic (2007). He is currently editing The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism and The Oxford Anthology of Romanticism, a major new teaching anthology.

Review from previous edition Duff provides illuminating evidence for the view that the Romantic period was acutely genre-conscious... this is a richly detailed and admirably researched book that will prove invaluable to all students of Romanticism

• Preface ; List of Illustrations ; Introduction ; 1. The Old Imperial Code ; 2. Romantic Genre Theory ; 3. (Anti)-Didacticism ; 4. Archaism and Innovation ; 5. The Combinatorial Method ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

David Duff studied in York and taught in Poland at the Nicholas Copernicus University of Torun and the University of Gdansk before moving to Scotland. He has published widely on Romantic poetics and book history. His previous publications include Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre (1994), an anthology of Modern Genre Theory (2000), and a co-edited collection, Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic (2007). He is currently editing The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism and The Oxford Anthology of Romanticism, a major new teaching anthology.

Review from previous edition Duff provides illuminating evidence for the view that the Romantic period was acutely genre-conscious... this is a richly detailed and admirably researched book that will prove invaluable to all students of Romanticism

• Preface ; List of Illustrations ; Introduction ; 1. The Old Imperial Code ; 2. Romantic Genre Theory ; 3. (Anti)-Didacticism ; 4. Archaism and Innovation ; 5. The Combinatorial Method ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index