List of IllustrationsGeneral Editors' PrefaceGeneral IntroductionIntroduction What Is Romanticism? Historical Definitions and Conceptualisations of Romanticism1 Contexts: History, Politics, Culture British Politics 1789-1815 British Politics 1815-1832 Empire and Travel Feminism and the Position of Women Industry and Economics Ireland and the 'Catholic Question' Leisure, Fashion and Sport Medicine and Science Music Political Protest and Popular Radicalism Religion and Atheism Sexualities Slavery, Abolition and African-British Literature2 Texts: Themes, Issues, Concepts Literary and Philosophical Key Concepts ��:The First Generation Romantic Poets (Wordsworth,Coleridge, Blake, Smith, Robinson) Literary and Philosophical Key Concepts ��:The Second Generation Romantic Poets (Byron,Shelley, Keats, Hemans, Landon) Joanna Baillie and Romantic-era Drama William Blake and Romantic-era Art Irish, Scottish and Welsh Poetry Medievalism, the Sublime and the Gothic Millenarianism The Novel 'Peasant' or Labouring-class Poets Reviews, Magazines and the Essay Satire3 Criticism: Approaches, Theory, Practice Contemporary and Victorian Reception Twentieth-century Criticism from Modernism to the New Criticism Modern Critical Approaches ��: From Deconstruction to Psychoanalytical Criticism Modern Critical Approaches ��: From Historicism to Ecological Criticism Modern Critical Approaches ��: Gender Criticism Epilogue: The Expansion of the Romantic CanonChronology and NecrologyIndex