Gothic Romanticism

Tom Duggett is Senior Associate Professor of Literature at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), China, and honorary fellow of the University of Liverpool, UK. He has published widely in journals including Review of English Studies, Romanticism and The Wordsworth Circle, and recently produced a two-volume scholarly edition of Robert Southey’s historical dialogue, Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society (2018). He serves as an Advisory Editor of the journal Romanticism.

• Preface to the Second Edition.- Introduction.- Romantic Poets and Gothic Culture.- Radical Gothic: Politics and Antiquarianism in Salisbury Plain (1794).- “By Gothic Virtue Won”: Romantic Poets Fighting the Peninsular War.- Wordsworth’s Gothic Education.- Interchapter. The Staring Nation.- Futures Past: Temporalization and Tradition in “Michael” (1800).- The Style Historic: The Gothic Line from Wordsworth to Hardy.- Conclusion. Gothic and Theory: The Reflecting Word.