ABSTRACT

First Published in 1992, this encyclopedia is designed to survey the social, cultural and intellectual climate of English Romanticism from approximately the 1780s and the French Revolution to the 1830s and the Reform Bill. Focussing on ‘the spirit of the age’, the book deals with the aesthetic, scientific, socioeconomic – indeed the human – environment in which the Romantics flourished. The books considers poets, playwrights and novelists; critics, editors and booksellers; painters, patrons and architects; as well as ideas, trends, fads, and conventions, the familiar and the newly discovered. The book will be of use for everyone from undergraduate English students, through to thesis-driven graduate students to teaching faculty and scholars.

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Ackermann, Rudolph (1754–1834)

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Aikin, Lucy (1781–1864)

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American Romanticism (1820–60)

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Ancients, The

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Androgyny

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Antiquarianism

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Architecture

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Associationism

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Austen, Jane (1775–1817)

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Autobiography and Confession

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B

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Baillie, Joanna (1762–1851)

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Ballad

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Ballantyne, James (1772–1833)

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Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (1743–1825)

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Beaumont, Sir George Howland (1753–1827)

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Beckford, William (1760–1844)

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Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803–49)

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Bell, Andrew (1753–1832)

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Bennett, Agnes Maria (1750?–1808)

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Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832)

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Berkeley's Idealism

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Betham, Mary Matilda (1776–1852)

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Betty, William Henry West (1791–1874)

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Bewick, Thomas (1753–1828)

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Bible, The, and Biblical Criticism

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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

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Blake, William (1757–1827)

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Blake, William (as engraver)

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Bligh, William (1754–1817)

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Bonington, Richard Parkes (1802–28)

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Bowles, William Lisle (1762–1850)

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Bray, Anna Elizabeth (1790–1883)

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Brothers, Richard (1757–1824)

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Brougham, Henry (1778–1868)

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Brummell, George Bryan "Beau" (1778–1840)

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Brunton, Mary (1778–1818)

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Burke, Edmund (1729–97)

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Burnet, Thomas (?1635–1715)

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Burns, Robert (1759–96)

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Byron, George Gordon; Lord Byron (1788–1824)

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Byronic Hero

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Camelion Poet

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Campbell, Thomas (1777–1844)

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Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881)

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Castlereagh, Viscount Robert Stewart (1769–1822)

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Catastrophism

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Censorship

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Chatterton, Thomas (1752–70)

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Children's Literature

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Children, View of

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Church of England

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Clairmont, Mary Jane (Claire) 1798–1879)

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Clare, John (1793–1864)

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Classicism

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Cobbett, William (1763–1835)

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Colburn, Henry (?–1857)

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Coleridge, Hartley (1796–1849)

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1774–1834)

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Coleridge, Sara (1802–52)

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Colman, George, the Younger (1762–1836)

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Colquhoun, Lady Janet (1781–1846)

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Combination Acts

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Commonsense Philosophy

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Constable, Archibald (1774–1827)

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Constable, John (1776–1837)

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Conversation Poems

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Cook, James (1728–99)

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Corn Laws

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Cosway, Richard (1742–1821)

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Cotman, John Sell (1782–1842)

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Cottle, Joseph (1770–1853)

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Cowper, William (1731–1800)

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Crabbe, George (1754–1832)

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Criminality

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Croker, John Wilson (1780–1857)

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Crome, John (1768–1821)

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Cruikshank, George (1792–1878)

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Cunningham, Allan (1784–1842)

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Currency Question

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Dallas, Robert Charles (1754–1824)

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Dalton, John (1766–1844)

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Darley, George (1795–1846)

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Darwin, Erasmus (1731–1802)

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Davies, Scrope Berdmore (1782–1852)

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Davy, Humphry (1778–1829)

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Deacon, William Frederick (1799–1845)

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Decorative Arts

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Deism and Natural Supernaturalism in the 18th Century

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De Quincey, Thomas (1785–1859)

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Dibdin, Charles (1745–1814)|Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo (1768–1833)|Dibdin, Thomas John (1771–1841)

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[The London] Diorama

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Disinterestedness

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Domestic Architecture

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d'Orsay, Count Alfred (1801–52)

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Economic Conditions

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Edgeworth, Maria (1767–1849)

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Edgeworth, Richard Lovell (1744–1817)

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Edinburgh Literary Gazette

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Edinburgh Review (1802–1929)

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Education

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Egotistical, or Wordsworthian, Sublime

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Egremont, Lord [George O'Brien Wyndham] (1751–1837)

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Elective Affinity

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Elgin Marbles

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Emotion Recollected in Tranquility

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Empiricism

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Epic

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Epipsyche

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Essay

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Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone (1782–1854)

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Flaxman, John (1755–1826)

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Food and Culinary Habits

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Fox, James Charles (1749–1806)

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Fragment

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Frame Narrative

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French Revolution

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French Romanticism

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Frend, William (1757–1841)

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Frere, John Hookham (1768–1846)

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Fuseli, Henry (1741–1825)

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Galt, John (1779–1839)

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Geological Sciences

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German Fairytales

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German Idealism, Influence of

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German Romanticism

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Gifford, William (1756–1826)

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Gillray, James (1756–1815)

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Girtin, Thomas (1775–1802)

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Gleig, George Robert (1796–1888)

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Godwin, William (1756–1836)

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Gordon Riots

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Gothicism

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Grant, Anne (MacVicar) (1755–1838)

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Grimm Brothers

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Hamilton, Elizabeth (1755–1816)

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Hamilton, Emma (1765–1815)

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Hastings, Warren (1732–1818)

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Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786–1846)

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Hayley, William (1745–1820)

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Hays, Mary (1760–1843)

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Hazlitt, William (1778–1830)

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Hellenism

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Hemans, Felicia (1793–1835)

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Herschel, William (1738–1822)

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Hodson, Margaret Wrench Holford (1778–1852)

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Hogg, James (1770–1835)

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Hogg, Thomas Jefferson (1792–1862)

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Holcroft, Thomas (1745–1809)

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Hone, William (1780–1842)

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Hood, Thomas (1799–1845)

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Humanitarianism

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Hunt, Leigh (1784–1859)

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Hymnody

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I

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Imagination

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Incest

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Inchbald, Elizabeth (1753–1821)

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Industrial Revolution

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Influence, Anxiety of

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Insanity and Eccentric Genius

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Irony

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Irving, Edward (1792–1834)

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Jeffrey, Francis (1773–1850)

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Johnson, Joseph (1738–1809)

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Jones, Sir William (1746–94)

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Jordan, Dorothy (1761–1816)

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Journalism

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Kant and Theories of German Idealism

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Kean, Edmund (1787?–1833)

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Keats, John (1795–1821)

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Kemble, John Philip (1757–1823)

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Kitchiner, William (c.1775–1827)

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The Lake School

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Lamb, Lady Caroline (1785–1828)

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Lamb, Charles (1775–1834)

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Lamb, Mary (1764–1847)

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Lancaster, Joseph (1778–1838)

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Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (L.E.L.) (1802–38)

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Landor, Walter Savage (1775–1864)

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Landscape Painting

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Landseer, Edwin 1802–73

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Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775–1818)

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The Liberal

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Linnell, John (1792–1882)

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Literacy

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Literary Criticism and Literary Theory

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Lockhart, John Gibson (1794–1854)

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London Magazine

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Lower Classes

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[The] Luddites

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Lyric

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Lyrical Ballads

letter |43 pages

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MacAdam, John Loudon (1756–1836)

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Mackintosh, Sir James (1765–1832)

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Macpherson, James (1736–96)

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Mail and Mail Coaches

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Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766–1834)

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Martin, John (1789–1854)

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Mathias, Thomas James (1754?–1835)

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Maturin, Charles Robert (1780–1824)

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Mavrokordatos, Alexandros (1791–1865)

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Medievalism

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Meeke, Mary (?–1818)

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Melancholy

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Mental Theater

entry |5 pages

Metrical Theory and Versification

entry |3 pages

Middle Classes

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Milton

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Mitford, Mary Russell (1787–1855)

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Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689–1762)

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The Monthly Magazine; and British Register

entry |3 pages

Moore, Thomas (1779–1852)

entry |3 pages

More, Hannah (1745–1833)

entry |2 pages

Morier, James Justinian (1780–1849)

entry |2 pages

Morland, George (1763–1804)

entry |4 pages

The Morning Post

entry |2 pages

Münchhausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von (1720–97)

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John Murray, Publishers

entry |5 pages

Music

letter |20 pages

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entry |4 pages

Napoleon (Bonaparte) (1769–1821)

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Napoleonic Wars

entry |3 pages

Nash, John (1752–1835)

entry |2 pages

Nationalism

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Natural Supernaturalism and 20th-Century Critics

entry |3 pages

Necessity, Doctrine of

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Negative Capability

entry |2 pages

Negative Romanticism

entry |3 pages

Nelson, Horatio (Viscount Nelson) (1758–1805)

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Neoplatonism

entry |4 pages

Novel

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O

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Oliphant, Carolina, Baroness of Nairne (1766–1845)

entry |2 pages

Ollier, Charles (1788–1859)

entry |3 pages

Opie, Amelia Alderson (1769–1853)

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Opium and Laudanum

entry |2 pages

Organic Form

entry |2 pages

Orientalism/Exoticism

entry |3 pages

Owenson, Sydney (Lady Morgan) (1778?–1859)

letter |48 pages

P

entry |4 pages

Paine, Thomas (1737–1809)

entry |3 pages

Painting

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Paley, William (1743–1805)

entry |3 pages

Palmer, Samuel (1805–81)

entry |3 pages

Panorama

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Pantheism

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Pantomime

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Parliament

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Pastoralism

entry |4 pages

Peacock, Thomas Love (1785–1866)

entry |3 pages

Percy, Thomas (1729–1811)

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Peterloo

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Phrenology

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[The] Picturesque

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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720–78)

entry |1 pages

Pitt, William (1759–1806)

entry |5 pages

Poetry

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Polidori, John William 1795–1821)

entry |2 pages

Poole, Thomas (1765–1837)

entry |2 pages

Poor Law of 1834

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Porter, Jane (1776–1850)

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Price, Richard (1723–1791)

entry |3 pages

Priestley, Joseph (1733–1804)

entry |2 pages

Primitivism

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Prometheanism

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Prophecy and Apocalypse

entry |2 pages

Publishing

entry |3 pages

Puns

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Q

entry |2 pages

The Quarterly Review

letter |25 pages

R

entry |3 pages

Radcliffe, Ann Ward (1764–1823)

entry |2 pages

Raeburn, Sir Henry (1756–1823)

entry |2 pages

[The] Real Language of Men

entry |2 pages

Reconciliation of Opposites

entry |2 pages

Reform Bill of 1832

entry |2 pages

Regency

entry |4 pages

Religion

entry |2 pages

Revett, Nicholas (1721–1804)

entry |2 pages

Reynolds, John Hamilton (1794–1852)

entry |3 pages

Ricardo, David (1772–1823)

entry |2 pages

Robinson, Henry Crabb (1775–1867)

entry |2 pages

Robinson, Mary (1758–1800)

entry |3 pages

Rogers, Samuel (1763–1855)

entry |1 pages

Rosetta Stone

entry |3 pages

Rowlandson, Thomas (1757–1827)

entry |2 pages

Royal Family

entry |3 pages

Russian Romanticism

letter |57 pages

S

entry |1 pages

Sabbatarianism

entry |4 pages

Satanism

entry |3 pages

Satire

entry |3 pages

Scott, John (1784–1821)

entry |4 pages

Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832)

entry |4 pages

Sculpture

entry |3 pages

Sentimentalism

entry |3 pages

Shakespeare

entry |3 pages

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1797–1851)

entry |6 pages

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822)

entry |2 pages

Sherwood, Mary Martha (1775–1851)

entry |3 pages

Siddons, Sarah (1755–1831)

entry |2 pages

Skepticism, Humean

entry |5 pages

Slavery

entry |3 pages

Smith, Charlotte Turner (1749–1806)

entry |2 pages

Smith, James (1775–1839)|Smith, Horace (born Horatio) (1779–1849)

entry |2 pages

Smith, Sydney (1771–1845)

entry |2 pages

Society for the Suppression of Vice

entry |2 pages

Southcott, Joanna (1750–1814)

entry |2 pages

Southey, Caroline Anne Bowles (1786–1854)

entry |2 pages

Southey, Robert (1774–1843)

entry |2 pages

Spanish Romanticism

entry |3 pages

[The] Spirit of the Age

entry |2 pages

Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings

entry |2 pages

Spots of Time

entry |2 pages

Stothard, Thomas (1755–1834)

entry |1 pages

Stuart, James (1713–88)

entry |3 pages

[The] Sublime

entry |3 pages

Sunday-School Movement

entry |4 pages

Supernaturalism

entry |3 pages

Swedenborgianism

entry |1 pages

Synaesthesia

letter |26 pages

T

entry |2 pages

Taylor Family

entry |2 pages

Taylor, Jane (1783–1824)

entry |2 pages

Taylor, John (1781–1864)|Hessey, James Augustus (1785–1870)

entry |1 pages

Telford, Thomas (1757–1834)

entry |4 pages

Textual Supplements

entry |4 pages

Theater

entry |2 pages

Thomson, George (1757–1851)

entry |3 pages

Thomson, James (1700–1748)

entry |1 pages

Tighe, Mary Blachford (1772–1810)

entry |3 pages

Tipu Sultan (1750–99)

entry |2 pages

Tooke, John Horne (1736–1812)

entry |4 pages

Topographical and Travel Prints

entry |2 pages

Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803)

entry |1 pages

Trelawny, Edward John (1792–1881)

entry |2 pages

Trimmer, Sarah Kirby (1741–1810)

entry |3 pages

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775–1851)

letter |3 pages

U

entry |3 pages

Utilitarianism

letter |9 pages

V

entry |3 pages

Vampire

entry |2 pages

Vegetarianism

entry |2 pages

Ventriloquism

entry |3 pages

Visionary Landscape Painting

entry |3 pages

Vulcanism

letter |38 pages

W

entry |2 pages

Wade, Thomas (1805–1875)

entry |2 pages

Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths (1794–1847)

entry |2 pages

Walpole, Horace (1717–97)

entry |3 pages

Watt, James (1736–1819)

entry |2 pages

Watts, Alaric Alexander (1797–1864)

entry |3 pages

Webb, Cornelius (1789–?)

entry |2 pages

Wedgwood

entry |2 pages

Wellesley, Arthur (First Duke of Wellington) (1769–1852)

entry |2 pages

West, Jane (1758–1852)

entry |2 pages

Wilberforce, William (1759–1833)

entry |3 pages

Wilkie, Sir David (1785–1841)

entry |3 pages

Williams, Helen Maria (1762–1827)

entry |2 pages

Willing Suspension of Disbelief

entry |2 pages

Wilson, John (Christopher North) (1785–1854)

entry |2 pages

Wise Passiveness

entry |2 pages

Wolcot, John ("Peter Pindar") (1738–1819)

entry |4 pages

Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759–97)

entry |6 pages

Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771–1855)

entry |7 pages

Wordsworth, William (1770–1850)

entry |3 pages

Wright, Frances (1795–1852)

entry |2 pages

Wright, Joseph (1734–97)

letter |2 pages

Y

entry |2 pages

Young, Thomas (1773–1829)