Romanticism

Duncan Wu is a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, and a post-doctoral Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 (1993) and co-editor with Stephen Gill of a new edition of Wordsworth: Selected Poems (1994).

Introduction. A Note on Texts and Abbreviations.

Acknowledgements.

Abbreviations.

Blake:.

1. Blakean Zen: Nelson Hilton.

2. Blake's Concept of the Sublime: Vincent Arthur De Luca.

Wordsworth:.

3. Wordsworth, Rousseau and the Politics of Education: James K. Chandler.

4. The History of Imagination: Alan Liu.

Coleridge: .

5. 'Kubla Khan' and the Art of Thingifying: Kathleen M. Wheeler.

6.'Christabel': The Wandering Mother and the Enigma of form: Karen Swan.

Shelley: .

7. Adonais : Shelley's Consumption of Keats: James A. W. Heffernan. .

8. Deconstruction or Reconstruction: Reading Shelley's Prometheus Unbound (Tilottama Rajan) .

Byron: .

9. Don Juan and Byron's Imperceptiveness to the English Word: Peter J. Manning.

10. Byron and the Anonymous Lyric: Jerome J. McGann.

Keats:.

11. The Two Hyperions : Compositions and Decompositions: Balachandra Rajan.

12. Imagination and Growth in the Great Odes: Leon Waldoff.

Other Writers: .

13. Godwin, Burke and Caleb Williams: Marylin Butler.

14. Murder Incorporated: Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Eve Kosofsky Sedwick.

15. Bearing Demons: Frankenstein's Circumvention of the Maternal: Margaret Homas.

16. John Clare in Babylon: Tom Paulin.

17. 'A Revolution in Female Manners': Anne K. Mellor.

18. Jane Austen and Empire: Edward Said.

List of Contributors.

Bibliography.

Index.