Concise Companion to the Romantic Age

Jon Klancher teaches Romantic and Victorian literature, the sociology of culture, and the history of books and reading at Carnegie Mellon University. He has written widely on Romantic and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural history in such journals and collections as ELH, Studies in Romanticism, MLQ, Romantic Metropolis, The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, The New Historicism, and The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1837. Author of The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790-1832 (1987), he is currently completing a book, Transfiguring “Arts & Sciences”: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age.

"Though unusually well (and often quotably) written for collections of this type, the volume is best suited to specialists, who will find plenty of usable nuggets here." (CHOICE, 2009)

• List of Illustrations viiNotes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1Jon Klancher1 Transfiguring God: Religion, Revolution, Romanticism 14Robert M. Maniquis2 Romanticism and Empire 36Saree Makdisi3 “Associations Respect[ing] the Past”: Enlightenment and Romantic Historicism 57Anthony Jarrells4 Nationalisms in Romantic Britain and Ireland: Culture, Politics, and the Global 77Miranda Burgess5 “With an Industry Incredible”: Politics, Writing, and the Public Sphere 99Paul Keen6 Romantic Justice: Law, Literature, and Individuality 119Mark Schoenfield7 Natural History in the Romantic Period 141Noah Heringman8 Romantic Sciences: British and Continental Thresholds 168Frederick Burwick9 Consumer Culture: Getting and Spending in the Romantic Age 189Nicholas Mason10 The Romantic-Era Book Trade 212Lee Erickson11 Visual Pleasures, Visionary States: Art, Entertainment, and the Nation 232Gillen D’Arcy Wood12 What’s at Stake? Kantian Aesthetics, Romantic and Modern Poetics, Sociopolitical Commitment 257Robert KaufmanIndex 283