Handbook of Romanticism Studies

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).

“A Handbook of Romanticism Studiesis an engaging and exciting collection of essays edited by Joel Faflak and Julia M. Wright. Organised around a set of key terms – including ‘imagination’, and ‘poetics’, as well as ‘race’, ‘gender’, ‘drama’, ‘satire’, and ‘science’, – the volume charts the ‘sea changes’ that Romanticism studies has undergone during the last thirty years (p.6). . . In its declared endeavour ‘to help the reader through this renovated and diverse field’ (p.6), A Handbook is unquestionably successful.”  (Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 25 November 2015)

• Acknowledgments vii Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction 1Joel Faflak and Julia M. WrightPart 1: Aesthetics and Media 171 Imagination 19Richard C. Sha2 Sensibility 37Julie Ellison3 Sublime 55Anne Janowitz4 Periodicals 69Kristin Flieger Samuelian and Mark Schoenfield5 Visual Culture 87Sophie ThomasPart 2: Theories of Literature 1056 Author 107Elizabeth A. Fay7 Reader 125Stephen C. Behrendt8 Poetics 143Jacqueline Labbe9 Narrative 159Jillian Heydt-Stevenson10 Drama 177David Worrall11 Gothic 195Jerrold E. Hogle12 Satire 213Steven E. JonesPart 3: Ideologies and Institutions 22513 Historiography 227Ted Underwood14 Ideology 245Orrin N. C. Wang15 Nation and Empire 259Julia M. Wright16 Class 277Michael Scrivener17 Race 289Peter J. Kitson18 Gender and Sexuality 307Kari LokkePart 4: Disciplinary Intersections 32519 Philosophy 327Marc Redfield20 Religion 339Michael Tomko21 Science 357Theresa M. Kelley22 Medicine 375James Robert Allard23 Psychology 391Joel FaflakIndex 409