Romanticism Bibliography

Romanticism: Selective Bibliography

Adriana Craciun

Traditional Approaches to Romanticism, and General Introductions

Abrams, M.H. (ed.), English Romantic Poets (1960)
Abrams, M.H., The Mirror and the Lamp (1953)
Abrams, M.H., Natural Supernaturalism (1971)
Bate, Jonathan, Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination (1986)
Bloom, Harold, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry (1961)
Furst, Lilian R, Romanticism (The `Critical Idiom' series) (2nd edn 1976)
Furst, Lilian, European Romanticism - Self Definition (Methuen)
Hazlitt, William, The Spirit of the Age (1825)
Lovejoy, A.O., Essays in the History of Ideas (1960) (see the chapter called `On the Discrimination of Romanticisms')
Prickett, Stephen (ed.), The Romantics (Context of English Literature series) (1981). (Helpful essays on historical, religious and philosophic background)
Weiskel, Thomas, The Romantic Sublime: Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence (1976)
Wellek, René, `The Concept of Romanticism' in Concepts of Criticism, (ed. S.G. Nichols, 1963)

Major Modern Critical Reassessments and Revaluations of Romanticism

Butler, Marilyn, Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background, 1760-1830 (1981)
Chase, Cynthia (ed.), Romanticism (1993).
Copley, Stephen and Whale, John, eds. Beyond Romanticism: New Approaches to Texts and Contexts 1780-1832. (1992)
*Curran, Stuart (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism (1993).
---. Poetic Form and British Romanticism .
deMan, Paul, The Rhetoric of Romanticism (Columbia, 1984)
Farrett, Mary A., & Nicola J Watson (eds), At the Limits of Romanticism: Essays in Cultural, Feminist, and Materialist Criticism (1994)
Goldsmith, Steven. Unbuilding Jerusalem: Apocalypse and Romantic Repesentation. (1993)
Jones, Chris, Radical Sensibility: Literature and Ideas in the 1790's (1993)
Kelly, Gary, The English Jacobin Novel 1780-1805 (1976)
Kelly, G., English Fiction of the Romantic Period (1989)
McGann, Jerome J., The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Poetic Style (Oxford, 1996). (very important re-evaluation of Romanticism's relationship and indebtedness to sensibility with particular attention to women writers).
---. The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation (1983)
---. "Rethinking Romanticism." ELH 59 (1992) 735-54.
Mellor, Anne K. (ed.), Romanticism and Feminism (1988) (an important collection of feminist essays on Romanticism)
---. Romanticism and Gender (1993) (offers complementary models of "feminine Romanticism" and "masculine Romanticism")
Morse, David, Perspectives on Romanticism: A Transformational Analysis (1981)
Paulson, Ronald, Representations of Revolution (1983)
Rajan, Tilottama. Dark Interpreter: The Discourse of Romanticism (1980)
Richardson, Alan, Literature, Education, and Romanticism (1994)
Ross, Marlon B., The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women's Poetry (1989)
Wordsworth, Jonathan. Ancestral Voices: 50 Books from the Romantic Period.
--. Visionary Gleam: 40 Books from the Romantic Period.

Reactions to the Romantic Poets

Hayden, J.O., Romantic Bards and British Reviewers
Redpath, T.R., The Young Romantics and Critical Opinion 1807-1824
Reiman, Don. The Romantics Reviewed: Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers (Garland, 1972).

Historical and Political Context

Barrell, John, The Dark Side of the Landscape: The Rural Poor in English Painting 1730-1840 (1980)
Bennett, Betty,ed. British War Poetry
Cobbett, William, Rural Rides (1830) (Penguin)
Gaull, Marilyn, English Romanticism: The Human Context (1988)
Halévy, Elie, England in 1815 (1913) (English trans., 1924)
Hobsbawm, E.J., The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848 (1962)
Johnson, Paul, The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830 (1992)
Low Donald A., That Sunny Dome: A Portrait of Regency Britain (1977)
Thompson, E.P., The Making of the English Working Class (1963)

The political debate of the 1790s, and the French Revolution

Butler, Marilyn (ed.), Burke Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy (1984)
Dickinson, H.T., British Radicalism and the French Revolution 1789-1815 (1985)
Everest, Kelvin, (ed.), Revolution in Writing (1991)
Freeman, M., Edmund Burke and the Critique of Political Radicalism (1980)
Gutwirth, Madelyn, The Twilight of the Goddesses: Women and Representation in the French Revolutionary (1992)
Hertz, Neil. "Medusa's Head: Male Hysteria Under Political Pressure." Representations 4 (1983): 25-55.
Hunt, Lynn. Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution. (1984)
---. The Family Romance of the French Revolution. (1992)
Johnson, Claudia. Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s. (1995)
McCalman, Iain, Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840 (1988; pb 1993)
Pedersen, Susan, `Hannah More meets Simple Simon: tracts, chapbooks, and popular culture in late eighteenth-century England', Journal of British Studies 25 (1986), 84-113
Smith, Olivia, The Politics of Language 1791-1819 (1984)
Ty, Eleanor. Unsex'd Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790s. Toronto: Toronto UP, 1993.
Wood, Marcus, Radical Satire and Print Culture 1790-1822 (1994)

The novel

Armstrong, Nancy, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (1987)
Butler, Marilyn, Jane Austen and the War of Ideas (1975; rev. 1987)
Kelly, Gary, The English Jacobin Novel 1780-1805 (1976)
Kelly, Gary, English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 (1989)
Kiely, Robert, The Romantic Novel in England (1972)
Spender, Dale, ed. Living by the Pen: Early British Women Writers. 1992
---. Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen. 1986.
Watson, Nicola J., Revolution and the form of the British Novel: 1790-1825 (1994)

Women and Romanticism/Gender and Romanticism

Alexander, Meena, Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley (1989)
Armstrong, Isobel. "The Gush of the Feminine: How Can We Read Women's Poetry of the Romantic Period?" Feldman and Kelley, 13-32.
Blain, Virginia, Clements, Patricia & Grundy, Isobel (eds.), The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present (1990)
Curran, Stuart, "Women Readers, Women Writers." Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Ed.
Donoghue, Emma. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. (1993)
Ezell, Margaret J.M. Writing Women's Literary History. (1993)
Fass, Barbara. La Belle Dame sans Merci and the Aesthetics of Romanticism (1974)
Feldman, Paula and Theresa M. Kelley, eds. Women Romantic Writers: Voices and Countervoices. Hanover and London: UP of New England, 1995.
Fergus, Jan and Janice Farrar Thaddeus. "Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 17 (1987) 191-207.
Ferguson, Moira. Eighteenth Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender. Albany: State U of New York P, 1995.
---, ed. First Feminists-- British Women Writers. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1985.
Gilbert, Sandra & Gubar, Susan, Shakespeare's Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets (1979)
Hill, Bridget, compiler. Eighteenth-Century Women: An Anthology. 1984.
---. Women, Work, and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England. 1989
Hoeveler, Diane Long. Romantic Androgyny: The Women Within. (1990)
Homans, Margaret, Women Writers and Poetic Identity (1980)
Homans, Margaret, Bearing the Word (1986)
Jackson, J.R. de J., Romantic Poetry by Women: A Bibliography, 1770-1835 (1993)
Kelly, G., Women, Writing, and Revolution: 1790-1827 (1993)
Landry, Donna. "Figures of the Feminine: An Amazonian Revolution in Feminist Literary History." The Uses of Literary History. Ed. Marshall Brown. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1995.
---. The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.
Levin, Susan, Dorothy Wordsworth and Romanticism (1987)
Mellor, Anne K., Romanticism and Gender (1993)
Mellor, Anne K., (ed.), Romanticism and Feminism (1988)
Myers, Mitzi, `Reform or Ruin: A Revolution in Female Manners', Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 11 (1982), 199-216
Poovey, Mary, The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer (1984)
Ross, Marlon B., The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women's Poetry (1989)
Todd, Janet, Women's Friendship in Literature (1980)
Todd, Janet, (ed.), A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers: 1660-1800 (1984)
Wilson, Carol Shiner and Joel Haefner, eds. Re-visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1994.
Yaeger, Patricis, "Toward a Female Sublime." Gender and Theory: Dialogues on Feminist Criticism. Ed. Linda Kauffman. Oxford & New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989.

The Gothic

Botting, Fred, Gothic (Routledge,1995)
Castle, Terry, `The Spectralization of the Other in The Mysteries of Udolpho', in Nussbaum and Brown, eds, The New Eighteenth Century (1987), pp.231-53
Day, William Patrick. In the Circles of Fear and Desire: A Study of Gothic Fantasy. (1985)
Delamotte, Eugenia C., Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic (1990)
Ellis, Kate Ferguson, The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology (1989)
Fleenor, Julian E., ed. The Female Gothic. Montreal: Eden Press, 1983.
Foucault, Michel. "A Preface to Transgression." Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews. (1977).
Frank, Frederick. The First Gothics: A Critical Guide. New York: Garland, 1987.
Howard, Jacqueline, Reading Gothic Fiction: A Bakhtinian Approach (1994)
Howells, Cora Ann, Love, Mystery and Misery: Feeling in Gothic Fiction (1978)
Miles, Robert, Gothic Writing 1750-1820, A Genealogy (1993)
---. Ann Radcliffe, The Great Enchantress (1995)
Napier, Elizabeth, The Failure of Gothic: Problems of Disjunction in an Eighteenth-Century Literary Form (1987)
Paulson, Ronald. "Gothic Fiction and the French Revolution." ELH 48 (1981): 545-54.
Punter, David, The Literature of Terror, vols I and II (new ed. 1995)
Tracy, Ann B. The Gothic Novel 1790-1830: Plot Summaries and Index to Motifs.
Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1981.
Williams, Anne. Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1995.

Sensibility

Barker-Benfield, G. J. The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain. (1992)
Brissenden, R. F. Virtue in Distress: Studies in the Novel of Sentiment from Richardson to Sade. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1974.
Hargreaves, W.N. The English Della Cruscans and their Time, 1770-1828 (1967).
Johnson, Claudia. Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s. Chicago UP, 1995.
McGann, Jerome. The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style (Oxford, 1996).
Todd, Janet . Sensibility: An Introduction.

Individual authors:

William Blake

Bindman, David, Blake as an Artist (1977)
Erdman, David V, Blake, Prophet Against Empire (2nd edn, 1969)
Ferber, Michael, The Social Vision of William Blake (1985)
Glen, Heather, Vision and Disenchantment: Blake's `Songs' and Wordsworth's `Lyrical Ballads' (1983)
Lewis, Linda M., The Promethean Politics of Milton, Blake, and Shelley (1992)
Mee, Jon, Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (1992)
Thomson, EP. Witness Against the Beast: Blake and the Moral Law.
Vine, Steven, Blake's Poetry: Spectral Visions (1993)

Fanny Burney

Johnson, Claudia, "Vindicating the Wrongs of Woman: The Wanderer" (in Equivocal Beings).

Byron

Marchand, L.A., Byron: A Biography, the classic biography which appeared in three volumes in 1957. Use the one-volume abridgement Byron: A Portrait (New York 1970).
Quennell, P., Byron: The Years of Fame, and Byron in Italy (1941) -
Rutherford, A., Byron: A Critical Study
McGann, J.J., Fiery Dust: Byron's Poetic Development (1968)
McGann, J.J., `Don Juan' in Context (1976)
West, P., Byron and the Spoiler's Art
Barton, Anne, Byron: Don Juan (Landmarks of World Literature, Cambridge 1992).
Rutherford, A, Byron: The Critical Heritage (1970) (Useful for 19th century criticism.)
Jordan, F. (ed.), The English Romantic Poets: A Review of Research and Criticism (MLA, New York, 4th ed., 1985) -
Kelsall, M., Byron's Politics (1987)
Foot, M., The Politics of Paradise: A Vindication of Byron (1988)
Franklin, C, Byron's Heroines (Oxford 1992)

S T Coleridge

Everest, Kelvin, Coleridge's Secret Ministry: The Context of the Conversation Poems 1795-1798
Hamilton, Paul, Coleridge's Poetics (1983)
Holmes, Richard, Coleridge: Early Visions (1990)
Prickett, Stephen, Coleridge and Wordsworth: The Poetry of Growth (1980)
Swann, Karen. "'Christabel': The Wandering Mother and the Enigma of Form." Studies in Romanticism 23 (Winter 1984).

Charlotte Dacre ("Rosa Matilda")

Craciun, Adriana. "I Hasten to be disembodied': Charlotte Dacre, the Demon Lover, and Representations of the Body," European Romantic Review 6 (1995) 75-97.
---. "Introduction: Charlotte Dacre and the Vivisection of Virtue," in Zofloya, or the Moor, by Charlotte Dacre, ed. Craciun (Broadview 1997)
Hoeveler, Diane Long. "Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya: A Case Study in Miscegenation as Sexual and Racial Nausea." European Romantic Review 8 (Spring 1997) 185-199.
McGann, Jerome. "My Brain is Feminine': Byron and the Poetry of Deception." Byron: Augustan and Romantic, ed Andrew Rutherford (1990)
Miles, Robert. "Avatars of Matthew Lewis's The Monk: Ann Radcliffe's The Italian and Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya." Gothic Writing 1750-1820: A Genealogy, by Robert Miles (1993).

Mary Hays

Todd, Janet, "'The Unsex'd Females': Mary ollstonecraft and Mary Hays," in The Sign of Angellica

Felicia Hemans

Harding, Anthony John. "Felicia Hemans and the Effacement of Woman." In Romantic Women Writers (ed. Feldman and Kelley)
McGann, Jerome. "Literary History, Romanticism, and Felicia Hemans." In Re-Visioning Romanticism, ed. Wilson and Haefner.
Sweet, Nanora. "History, Imperialism, and the Aesthetics of the Beautiful: Felicia Hemans and the Post-Napoleonic Moment." In At the Limits of Romanticism, eds. Favret and Watson.
Wolfson, Susan. ""Domestic Affections' and 'the Spear of Minerva': Felicia Hemans and the Dilemma of Gender." In Re-Visioning Romanticism, ed. Wilson and Haefner.

John Keats

Gittings, Robert, John Keats (Penguin 1968, 1979)
Bate, Walter Jackson, John Keats
Bloom, Harold, Wallace Stevens: The Poems of our Climate (1977), in Fraser, G.S. (ed.), John Keats - The Odes (Casebook series)
Hoagwood, Terrence. "Keats and Social Context: Lamia" Studies in English Literature 29 (1989) 675-97.
Homans, Margaret. "Keats Reading Women, Women Reading Keats." Studies in Romanticism 29 (1990) 341-70.
Levinson, Marjorie, Keats's Life of Allegory (1988)
Ricks, Christopher, Keats and Embarassment
Ridley, M.R., Keats' Craftsmanship
Stillinger, Jack, The Hoodwinking of Madeleine and other essays on Keats's poems (1971).

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Blanchard, Laman. Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L. 2 vols. London: Henry Colburn, 1841.
Greer, Germaine, chapter on Landon in Slipshod Sybils.
Stephenson, Glennis. Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1995.

Mary Robinson

Barrington, E. The Exquisite Perdita. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1926.
Curran, Stuart. "Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales in Context." Wilson and Haefner 17-35.
Labbé, Jacqueline. "Selling One's Sorrows: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, and the Marketing of Poetry." The Wordsworth Circle 25 .
McGann, Jerome, "Mary Robinson and the Myth of Sappho." MLQ 56 (1995).
Pascoe, Judith. "Mary Robinson and the Literary Marketplace." In Romantic Women Writers, eds. Feldman and Kelley.
Peterson, Linda H. "Becoming an Author: Mary Robinson's Memoirs and the Origins of the Woman Artist's Autobiography." Wilson and Haefner 36-56.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Baldick, Chris, Introduction to The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992)
Baldick, Chris, In Frankenstein's Shadow (Oxford)
Ellis, Kate. "Monsters in the Garden: Mary Shelley and the Bourgeois Family." In The Endurance of Frankenstein.
Feldman, P.R., & Scott-Kilvert, D., The Journals of Mary Shelley (Oxford 1987)
Levine, George and UC Knoepflmacher, eds. The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel (UCalifornia press, 1982) an excellent and far ranging collection,
Mellor, Anne K., Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters (1988)
Bloom, Harold, `Frankenstein or the New Prometheus' in Partisan Review No 32 (1965), pp.611-618.
Oates, Joyce Carol, `Frankenstein's Fallen Angel', in Critical Enquiry Vol. 10, No. 3 (March 1984) pp.543-554.
St.Clair, William, The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family (1989)
Sterrenburg, Lee. "Mary Shelley's Monster: Politics and Psyche in Frankenstein " (In The Endurance of Frankenstein).

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Bloom, Harold, Shelley's Mythmaking (1959)
Heffernan, James. `Adonais: Shelley's Consumption of Keats' (1984) in: Romanticism, A Critical Reader, ed. Duncan Wu.
Holmes, Richard, Shelley - The Pursuit (1974; Penguin 1987)
Jones, Steven. Shelley's Satire (1994)
Leavis, F.R., Revaluation (1936) (chapter on Shelley).
Reiman, Donald H., Shelley's The Triumph of Life - A Critical Study
Rieger, James. The Mutiny Within: The Heresies of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Rogers, Neville, Shelley at Work, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1967)
Swinden, P. (ed.), Shelley - Shorter Poems and Lyrics: A Casebook
Tomalin, Claire, Shelley and his World

Charlotte Smith

Bray, Matthew. "Removing the Anglo-Saxon Yoke: The Francocentric Vision of Charlotte Smith's Later Works." Wordsworth Circle 24 (1993) 155-58.
Curran, Stuart, ed., Introduction, Poems of Charlotte Smith (Oxford, 1993)
Fry, Carole. Charlotte Smith.(Twayne series)
Hunt, Bishop C., Jr. "Wordsworth and Charlotte Smith." The Wordsworth Circle 1 (1970) 85-103.
Labbé, Jacqueline. "Selling One's Sorrows: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, and the Marketing of Poetry." The Wordsworth Circle 25.
Rogers, Katharine. "Romantic Aspirations, Restricted Possibilities: The Novels of Charlotte Smith." In Re-Visioning Romanticism, ed. Wilson and Haefner.

Helen Maria Williams

Adams, M. Ray. "Helen Maria Williams and the French Revolution."Wordsworth and Coleridge: Studies in Honor of George McLean Harper. (Ed. Earl Leslie Griggs. 1939; 1962)
Bray, M. "Helen Maria Williams and Edmund Burke: Radical Critique and Complicity."Eighteenth-Century Life 16 (1992) 1-24.
Jones, Chris. "Helen Maria Williams and Radical Sensibility." Prose Studies 12 (1989): 3-24.
Jones, Vivien, ---. "Women Writing Revolution: Narratives of History and Sexuality in Wollstonecraft andWilliams," Copley and Whale 178-99.
Kennedy, Deborah. "Revolutionary Tales: Helen Maria Williams' Letters from France and William Wordsworth's 'Vaudracour and Julia.'" The Wordsworth Circle 21 (1990) 109-14.
---. "The Spectacle of the Guillotine: Helen Maria Williams and the Reign of Terror." Philological Quarterly 73 (1994) 95-113.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Ferguson, Moira & Todd, Janet, Mary Wollstonecraft (1984)
Janes, R.M. "On the Reception of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman."
Journal of the History of Ideas 39 (1978) 293-302.
Kaplan, Cora. "Wild Nights: Pleasure/Sexuality/Feminism." Sea Changes:
Essays on Culture and Feminism. London: Verso, 1986. 31-56.
Kelly, Gary, Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft (1992)
Lorch, Jennifer, Mary Wollstonecraft: The Making of a Radical Feminist (1990)
Poovey, Mary, The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer (1984)
Reiss, Timothy. "Wollstonecraft, Women, and Reason." In Gender and Theory: Dialogues on Feminist Criticism, ed. Linda Kauffman (Blackwell). Tomalin, Claire, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (1974)

Dorothy Wordsworth

Gittings, Robert & Manton, Jo, Dorothy Wordsworth (1985).
Homans, Margaret, "Building Refuges: Dorothy Wordsworth's Poetics of the Image," in Homans' Bearing the Word.

William Wordsworth

Bate, Jonathan, Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition (1991)
Gill, Stephen, William Wordsworth (1989)
Hartman, Geoffrey, Wordsworth's Poetry 1787-1814 (1964)
Jacobus, Mary, Tradition and Experiment in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads 1798 (1976)
Jacobus, Mary, Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference: Essays on the Prelude (1989)
Jones, John, The Egotistical Sublime: A History of Wordsworth's Imagination (1954)
Levinson, Marjorie, Wordsworth's Great Period Poems: Four Essays (1986)
Liu, Alan, Wordsworth and the Sense of History
Mayo, Robert. "The Contemporaneity of the Lyrical Ballads." PMLA 1954 486-522.
Roe, Nicholas, Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years (1988)
Simpson, David, Wordsworth's Historical Imagination: The Poetry of Displacement (1987)

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