Publisher's Synopsis
This handbook provides a guide to English romanticism for students of English literature. It contains factual information about the authors, major and minor, including dates of publication and other biographical information. It also sets the work of the individual authors in context by including sections on historical movements such as the industrial revolution, the abolition of the slave trade and the French revolution. This book is designed to be used as a quick reference guide to these historical events and also to the ideologies of romanticism - nature, the self, sensibility, the imagination - and to its subjects - dreams, orientalism, the gothic and the sublime. There are also entries on the picturesque, and on painting and architecture. Jean Raimond is the author of "Robert Southey" L'Homme et son Temps, Son Oeuvre" and J.R. Watson is the author of "Everyman's Book of Victorian Verse" and "Wordsworth's Vital Soul".
