Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth Century British Culture

Dr Monika Class is a senior lecturer in English Studies at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, SwedenCian Duffy is professor and chair of English literature at Lund University, Sweden

• Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth Century British CultureVolume 1: Literature and Philosophy of the Romantic PeriodEdited by Monika Class and Cian DuffyTable of contentsGeneral Introduction: "No longer such an Ancient Quarrel: Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture", Giles WhiteleyVolume Introduction: "From Ancient Rivalry to Reciprocity: Romantic-era Literature and Philosophy: " — Monika ClassPart 1. Knowledge and BeliefPart 1. Introduction: "God, Nature, and the Secularization of Morality and Knowledge" — Monika Class1. William Paley, ‘The Unity of the Deity’, of Natural Theology2. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (née Aikin), ‘An Address to the Deity’ of Poems 3. Catharine Macaulay, The Question of Free Will and Necessity’, of Letters on Education 4. Friedrich August Nitsch, "Influence of Kant's Principles of Religion" of A General and Introductory View of Professor Kant Concerning Man, the World and the Deity5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Aphorisms on That Which Is Indeed Spiritual Religion: Aphorism VIII’, of Aids to Reflection6. Henry Crabb Robinson, ‘Letter from an under-Graduate, at the University of Jena, on the Philosophy of Kant’7. Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Julian and Maddalo: A Conversation’, of Posthumous Poems 8. Francis Jeffrey, ‘Stewart’s Account of the Life and Writings of Dr Thomas Reid’Part 2. Self Part 2. Introduction: "The Reciprocity of Literature and Philosophy at the Intersection of Self and Other" — Monika Class9. Thomas Beddoes, ‘Of the Brunonian Doctrine’, of The Elements of Medicine of John Brown10. Elizabeth Hamilton, ‘Operation of the Selfish Principle in the Spirit of Party’, of A Series of Popular Essays11. Charlotte Smith (neé Turner), ‘Sonnet XXXII: To Melancholy’, of Elegiac Sonnets 12. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Imagination’ From Biographia Literaria, or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions 13. William Wordsworth. Book II ‘School-time Continued’, of The Prelude14. John Keats, ‘Letter to Bailey, 22 November 1817; Letter to Brothers, 22 December 1817’ 15. William Hazlitt. Excerpt from An Essay on the Principles of Human Action: Being an Argument in Favour of the Natural Disinterestedness of the Human Mind16. Thomas Carlyle, ‘The Everlasting Yea’, of Sartor Resartus Part 3. Art and Criticism Part 3. Introduction: "Philosophical Aesthetics and Beyond" — Cian Duffy 17. Archibald Alison, ‘Of the Effect Produced upon the Imagination by Objects of Beauty and Sublimity’, of Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste18. John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Barbauld (née Aikin), ‘On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror’, of Miscellaneous Pieces, 19. Ann Radcliffe, ‘On the Supernatural in Poetry’20. Richard Payne Knight, Excerpt from The Landscape, a Didactic Poem 21. Joanna Baillie, ‘Introductory Discourse to Plays on the Passions’, of A Series of Plays 22. Isaac D’Israeli, ‘On some Characteristics of a Youth of Genius’, of An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character ( 23. Charles Lamb, ‘On the Genius and Character of Hogarth; with some Remarks’24. Baroness Holstein Staël, "Influence of the New German Philosophy on Literature and the Arts’, of Germany 25. Thomas de Quincey, ‘Lessing: Gallery of the German Prose Classics. By the English Opium Eater. Part II’,26. Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘A Defence of Poetry’ in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments Part 4. SocietyPart 4. Introduction: "Literature, Philosophy, and Revolution" — Cian Duffy 27. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris28. Thomas Paine, Excerpt from Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution 29. Mary Wollstonecraft, ‘Some Instances of the Folly which the Ignorance of Women Generates’, of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman30. Hannah More ‘On the Education of Women’, of Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education 31. Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, ‘Tasks’, of Essays on Practical Education32. Jeremy Bentham, Excerpt from An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Printed in the Year 1780, and Now First Published 33. William Godwin, ‘Objection to the System from the Principle of Population’ of Enquiry Concerning Political Justice34. Thomas R. Malthus, ‘Error of Mr. Godwin’, of An Essay on the Principle of Population35. James Stephen, Excerpt from The Opportunity; or, Reasons for an Immediate Alliance with St. Domingo 36. Thomas Carlyle, "Review of Anticipation; or, a Hundred Years Hence [on the Signs of the Times]’Index