Romanticism

Aidan Day considers the history and usage of the term Romanticism, and the changing views and debates which surround it.

He traces its history through nineteenth and twentieth-century readings, incorporating contemporary debates such as feminism, post-structuralism and new historicism.

Day places the traditional canon in the wider context of their contemporary political and philosophical thinkers.

A range of writers, both canonical and non-canonical, are included in his survey, including:William BlakeWilliam WordsworthSamuel Taylor ColeridgeJohn KeatsShelleyEdmund BlakeThomas PaineMary WollstonecraftJane AustenCharlotte SmithAnna Laetitia BarbauldRomanticism takes a clear, wide-ranging view of the subject and is essential reading for students new to the subject.