Introductory Studies

Breen, Jennifer and Mary Noble. Romantic Literature (2002)

Bloom, Harold. The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry (1961)

Day, Aidan. Romanticism (1996)

Furst, Lillian R. Romanticism (1976)

Watson, J.R. English Poetry of the Romantic Period: 1789-1830 (1985)
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Contexts

Abrams, M.H. "English Romanticism: The Spirit of the Age," in Frye (1963)

Bate, W. J. The Burden of the Past and the English Poet (1970)

Butler, Marilyn. “Romanticism in England ,” in Porter and Teich (1988)

Butler, Marilyn. Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries: English Literature and Its Background, 1760-1830 (1982)

Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism (1998)

Christensen, Jerome. Romanticism at the End of History (2000)

Engell, James. The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism (1981)

Keen, Paul. Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere (1999)

Kaiser, David Aram. Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism (1999)

Klancher, John. The Making of English Reading Audiences (1987)

Mee, Jon. Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (2003)

Mellor, Ann. Romanticism and Gender (1992)

Newlyn, Lucy. Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception (2000)

Poovey, Mary. The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen (1984)

Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City (1973)

Williams, Raymond. “The Romantic Artist,” in Culture and Society 1780-1850 (1958)
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Genres and Modes

Abrams, M.H. "Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric," in Harold Bloom
Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism (1970)

Barth, J. Robert. The Symbolic Imagination: Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition (2001)

Beer, Gillian. The Romance (1970)

Burroughs, Catherine (ed.) Women in British Romantic Theatre (2000)

Burwick, Frederick. Illusion and the Drama: Critical Theory of the Enlightenment and Romantic Era (1991)

Carlson, Julia. In the Theatre of Romanticism: Coleridge, Nationalism, Women (1994)

Curran, Stuart. Poetic Form and British Romanticism (1986)

Fry, Paul H. The Poet's Calling in the English Ode (1980)

Furst, Lillian R. Fictions of Romantic Irony (1984)

Halmi, Nicholas. The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol (2007)

Hoagwood and Terence Allan, and Daniel Watkins (eds.) British Romantic Drama: Historical and Critical Essays (1998)

Kermode, Frank. Romantic Image (1957)

Kroeber, Karl. Romantic Narrative Art (1966)

McFarland, Thomas. Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Modalities of Fragmentation (1981)

Pascoe, Judith. Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry, and Spectatorship (1997)

Simpson, David. Irony and Authority in Romantic Poetry (1979)

Wilkie, Brian. Romantic Poets and Epic Tradition (1965)

Wimsatt, W.K. “The Structure of Romantic Nature Imagery” (1949), in M.H. Abrams, ed. English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism (1975)

Wolfson, Susan. Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism (1997)

Wolfson, Susan. The Questioning Presence: Wordsworth, Keats, and the Interorogative Mode in Romantic Poetry (1986)
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Gothic

Fred Botting, Gothic (1995)

Brown, Marshal.The Gothic Text (2005)

Clery, E.J. The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762 – 1800 (1995)

Fleenor, Juliann (ed.), The Female Gothic (1983)

Frank Frederick.The First Gothics: A Critical Guide (1987)

Haggerty, George. Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form (1989)

Hogle, Jerrold (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (2002)

Howells, Coral Ann. Love, Mystery, and Misery: Feeling in Gothic Fiction (1978)

Paulson, Ronald. "Gothic Fiction and the French Revolution," ELH 48 (1981): 532 – 54

Punter, David (ed.) Companion to the Gothic (2000)

Punter, David. The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day (1980; revised, 2 vols., 1996),

Novels

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)

Clement, Pamela. The Godwinian Novel (1993)

Cottom, Daniel. The Civilized Imagination: A Study of Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, and Sir Walter Scott (1985)

Duncan, Ian. Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens (1992)

Kelly, Gary. English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 (1988)

Kiely, Robert. The Romantic Novel in England (1972)

Kelly, Gary. The English Jacobin Novel 1780-1805 (1976)

Watson, Nicola J. Revolution and the Form of the British Novel: 1790-1825 (1994)
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Specialized Studies

Abrams, M.H. The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism (1984)

Beer, John. Romantic Consciousness: Blake to Mary Shelley (2003)

Bostetter, Edward. The Romantic Ventriloquists (1963)

Chase, Cynthia. Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition (1986)

Magnuson, Paul. Reading Public Romanticism (1998)

Morse, David. Romanticism: A Structural Analysis (1982)

Perkins, David. The Quest for Permanence (1959)

Praz, Mario. The Romantic Agony (1951)

Shapiro, Barbara. The Romantic Mother: Narcissistic Patterns in Romantic Poetry (1983)

Weiskel, Thomas. The Romantic Sublime: Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence (1976)
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Theories of Romanticism

Arac, Jonathan. Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies (1987)

Abrams, M.H. Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolt in Romantic Literature (1971)

Abrams, M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (1953)

Bloom, Harold. Anxiety of Influence (1973)

DeMan, Paul. Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism (1993)

DeMan, Paul. The Rhetoric of Romanticism (1984)

Ferguson, Frances. "On the Numbers of Romanticism." ELH 58 (1991): 471-98

Frye, Northrop. A Study of English Romanticism (1968)

Hartman, Geoffrey H. “Romanticism and Anti-Self-Consciousness,” in Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays 1958-1970 (1970)

Kucich, Greg. "Gendering the Canons of Romanticism: Past and Present," in The Wordsworth Circle 27.2 (Spring 1997): 95-102

Livingston, Ira. Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity (1997)

Lovejoy, Arthur O. "On the Discrimination of Romanticisms" (1924), in M.H. Abrams, ed. English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism (1975).Abrams (1975)

McGann, Jerome J. "Rethinking Romanticism." ELH 59 (1992):735-54

McGann, Jerome J. The Romantic Ideology (1983)

Perkins, David. “The Construction of ‘The Romantic Movement' as a Literary Classification.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 45 (1990): 129-43

Rajan, Tilottama. The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice (1990)

Rajan, Tilottama. Dark Interpreter: The Discourse of Romanticism (1980)

Ross, Marlon. "Breaking the Period: Romanticism, Historical Representation, and the Prospect of Genre." ANQ 6.2-3 New Series (April, July, 1993): 121-31

Vogler, Thomas A. "Romanticism and Literary Periods: The Future of the Past." New German Critique 38 (Summer 1986): 131-60

Wang, Orrin. Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory (1996)

Wasserman, Earl R. “The English Romantics: The Grounds of Knowledge” (1964), in Robert Gleckner and Gerald Enscoe, eds. Romanticism: Points of View (1974)

Wellek, Rene. “The Concept of Romanticism in Literary History” (1949), in Robert Gleckner and Gerald Enscoe, eds. Romanticism: Points of View (1974)
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