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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |20 pages
A
entry |2 pages
Ackermann, Rudolph (1754–1834)
entry |1 pages
Aikin, Lucy (1781–1864)
entry |3 pages
American Romanticism (1820–60)
entry |2 pages
Ancients, The
entry |3 pages
Androgyny
entry |4 pages
Antiquarianism
entry |3 pages
Architecture
entry |3 pages
Associationism
entry |5 pages
Austen, Jane (1775–1817)
entry |3 pages
Autobiography and Confession
letter |53 pages
B
entry |3 pages
Baillie, Joanna (1762–1851)
entry |4 pages
Ballad
entry |2 pages
Ballantyne, James (1772–1833)
entry |2 pages
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (1743–1825)
entry |2 pages
Beaumont, Sir George Howland (1753–1827)
entry |2 pages
Beckford, William (1760–1844)
entry |2 pages
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803–49)
entry |2 pages
Bell, Andrew (1753–1832)
entry |3 pages
Bennett, Agnes Maria (1750?–1808)
entry |2 pages
Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832)
entry |1 pages
Berkeley's Idealism
entry |3 pages
Betham, Mary Matilda (1776–1852)
entry |1 pages
Betty, William Henry West (1791–1874)
entry |2 pages
Bewick, Thomas (1753–1828)
entry |2 pages
Bible, The, and Biblical Criticism
entry |3 pages
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
entry |8 pages
Blake, William (1757–1827)
entry |4 pages
Blake, William (as engraver)
entry |2 pages
Bligh, William (1754–1817)
entry |1 pages
Bonington, Richard Parkes (1802–28)
entry |2 pages
Bowles, William Lisle (1762–1850)
entry |1 pages
Bray, Anna Elizabeth (1790–1883)
entry |3 pages
Brothers, Richard (1757–1824)
entry |2 pages
Brougham, Henry (1778–1868)
entry |2 pages
Brummell, George Bryan "Beau" (1778–1840)
entry |1 pages
Brunton, Mary (1778–1818)
entry |3 pages
Burke, Edmund (1729–97)
entry |2 pages
Burnet, Thomas (?1635–1715)
entry |3 pages
Burns, Robert (1759–96)
entry |5 pages
Byron, George Gordon; Lord Byron (1788–1824)
entry |2 pages
Byronic Hero
letter |70 pages
C
entry |2 pages
Camelion Poet
entry |3 pages
Campbell, Thomas (1777–1844)
entry |3 pages
Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881)
entry |2 pages
Castlereagh, Viscount Robert Stewart (1769–1822)
entry |2 pages
Catastrophism
entry |3 pages
Censorship
entry |3 pages
Chatterton, Thomas (1752–70)
entry |6 pages
Children's Literature
entry |2 pages
Children, View of
entry |4 pages
Church of England
entry |2 pages
Clairmont, Mary Jane (Claire) 1798–1879)
entry |2 pages
Clare, John (1793–1864)
entry |3 pages
Classicism
entry |3 pages
Cobbett, William (1763–1835)
entry |2 pages
Colburn, Henry (?–1857)
entry |6 pages
Coleridge, Hartley (1796–1849)
entry |8 pages
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1774–1834)
entry |4 pages
Coleridge, Sara (1802–52)
entry |2 pages
Colman, George, the Younger (1762–1836)
entry |2 pages
Colquhoun, Lady Janet (1781–1846)
entry |2 pages
Combination Acts
entry |2 pages
Commonsense Philosophy
entry |1 pages
Constable, Archibald (1774–1827)
entry |2 pages
Constable, John (1776–1837)
entry |2 pages
Conversation Poems
entry |4 pages
Cook, James (1728–99)
entry |3 pages
Corn Laws
entry |2 pages
Cosway, Richard (1742–1821)
entry |2 pages
Cotman, John Sell (1782–1842)
entry |2 pages
Cottle, Joseph (1770–1853)
entry |3 pages
Cowper, William (1731–1800)
entry |4 pages
Crabbe, George (1754–1832)
entry |2 pages
Criminality
entry |2 pages
Croker, John Wilson (1780–1857)
entry |2 pages
Crome, John (1768–1821)
entry |2 pages
Cruikshank, George (1792–1878)
entry |2 pages
Cunningham, Allan (1784–1842)
entry |2 pages
Currency Question
letter |27 pages
D
entry |2 pages
Dallas, Robert Charles (1754–1824)
entry |3 pages
Dalton, John (1766–1844)
entry |2 pages
Darley, George (1795–1846)
entry |2 pages
Darwin, Erasmus (1731–1802)
entry |2 pages
Davies, Scrope Berdmore (1782–1852)
entry |2 pages
Davy, Humphry (1778–1829)
entry |2 pages
Deacon, William Frederick (1799–1845)
entry |3 pages
Decorative Arts
entry |3 pages
Deism and Natural Supernaturalism in the 18th Century
entry |5 pages
De Quincey, Thomas (1785–1859)
entry |4 pages
Dibdin, Charles (1745–1814)|Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo (1768–1833)|Dibdin, Thomas John (1771–1841)
entry |3 pages
[The London] Diorama
entry |2 pages
Disinterestedness
entry |3 pages
Domestic Architecture
entry |1 pages
d'Orsay, Count Alfred (1801–52)
letter |25 pages
E
entry |2 pages
Economic Conditions
entry |4 pages
Edgeworth, Maria (1767–1849)
entry |2 pages
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell (1744–1817)
entry |3 pages
Edinburgh Literary Gazette
entry |2 pages
Edinburgh Review (1802–1929)
entry |5 pages
Education
entry |2 pages
Egotistical, or Wordsworthian, Sublime
entry |2 pages
Egremont, Lord [George O'Brien Wyndham] (1751–1837)
entry |2 pages
Elective Affinity
entry |3 pages
Elgin Marbles
entry |2 pages
Emotion Recollected in Tranquility
entry |3 pages
Empiricism
entry |3 pages
Epic
entry |1 pages
Epipsyche
entry |2 pages
Essay
letter |18 pages
F
entry |2 pages
Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone (1782–1854)
entry |2 pages
Flaxman, John (1755–1826)
entry |3 pages
Food and Culinary Habits
entry |3 pages
Fox, James Charles (1749–1806)
entry |2 pages
Fragment
entry |4 pages
Frame Narrative
entry |2 pages
French Revolution
entry |3 pages
French Romanticism
entry |3 pages
Frend, William (1757–1841)
entry |2 pages
Frere, John Hookham (1768–1846)
entry |2 pages
Fuseli, Henry (1741–1825)
letter |31 pages
G
entry |1 pages
Galt, John (1779–1839)
entry |6 pages
Geological Sciences
entry |3 pages
German Fairytales
entry |4 pages
German Idealism, Influence of
entry |6 pages
German Romanticism
entry |2 pages
Gifford, William (1756–1826)
entry |2 pages
Gillray, James (1756–1815)
entry |2 pages
Girtin, Thomas (1775–1802)
entry |2 pages
Gleig, George Robert (1796–1888)
entry |4 pages
Godwin, William (1756–1836)
entry |2 pages
Gordon Riots
entry |5 pages
Gothicism
entry |1 pages
Grant, Anne (MacVicar) (1755–1838)
entry |2 pages
Grimm Brothers
letter |33 pages
H
entry |2 pages
Hamilton, Elizabeth (1755–1816)
entry |2 pages
Hamilton, Emma (1765–1815)
entry |2 pages
Hastings, Warren (1732–1818)
entry |2 pages
Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786–1846)
entry |3 pages
Hayley, William (1745–1820)
entry |3 pages
Hays, Mary (1760–1843)
entry |4 pages
Hazlitt, William (1778–1830)
entry |3 pages
Hellenism
entry |3 pages
Hemans, Felicia (1793–1835)
entry |2 pages
Herschel, William (1738–1822)
entry |1 pages
Hodson, Margaret Wrench Holford (1778–1852)
entry |4 pages
Hogg, James (1770–1835)
entry |2 pages
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson (1792–1862)
entry |2 pages
Holcroft, Thomas (1745–1809)
entry |2 pages
Hone, William (1780–1842)
entry |3 pages
Hood, Thomas (1799–1845)
entry |2 pages
Humanitarianism
entry |4 pages
Hunt, Leigh (1784–1859)
entry |4 pages
Hymnody
letter |16 pages
I
entry |4 pages
Imagination
entry |2 pages
Incest
entry |2 pages
Inchbald, Elizabeth (1753–1821)
entry |3 pages
Industrial Revolution
entry |3 pages
Influence, Anxiety of
entry |4 pages
Insanity and Eccentric Genius
entry |3 pages
Irony
entry |2 pages
Irving, Edward (1792–1834)
letter |8 pages
J
entry |2 pages
Jeffrey, Francis (1773–1850)
entry |2 pages
Johnson, Joseph (1738–1809)
entry |3 pages
Jones, Sir William (1746–94)
entry |2 pages
Jordan, Dorothy (1761–1816)
entry |3 pages
Journalism
letter |12 pages
K
entry |3 pages
Kant and Theories of German Idealism
entry |3 pages
Kean, Edmund (1787?–1833)
entry |6 pages
Keats, John (1795–1821)
entry |2 pages
Kemble, John Philip (1757–1823)
entry |2 pages
Kitchiner, William (c.1775–1827)
letter |42 pages
L
entry |2 pages
The Lake School
entry |2 pages
Lamb, Lady Caroline (1785–1828)
entry |4 pages
Lamb, Charles (1775–1834)
entry |3 pages
Lamb, Mary (1764–1847)
entry |2 pages
Lancaster, Joseph (1778–1838)
entry |3 pages
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (L.E.L.) (1802–38)
entry |3 pages
Landor, Walter Savage (1775–1864)
entry |3 pages
Landscape Painting
entry |2 pages
Landseer, Edwin 1802–73
entry |3 pages
Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775–1818)
entry |4 pages
The Liberal
entry |2 pages
Linnell, John (1792–1882)
entry |3 pages
Literacy
entry |7 pages
Literary Criticism and Literary Theory
entry |3 pages
Lockhart, John Gibson (1794–1854)
entry |2 pages
London Magazine
entry |2 pages
Lower Classes
entry |3 pages
[The] Luddites
entry |3 pages
Lyric
entry |3 pages
Lyrical Ballads
letter |43 pages
M
entry |2 pages
MacAdam, John Loudon (1756–1836)
entry |2 pages
Mackintosh, Sir James (1765–1832)
entry |2 pages
Macpherson, James (1736–96)
entry |2 pages
Mail and Mail Coaches
entry |3 pages
Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766–1834)
entry |2 pages
Martin, John (1789–1854)
entry |2 pages
Mathias, Thomas James (1754?–1835)
entry |3 pages
Maturin, Charles Robert (1780–1824)
entry |2 pages
Mavrokordatos, Alexandros (1791–1865)
entry |2 pages
Medievalism
entry |2 pages
Meeke, Mary (?–1818)
entry |2 pages
Melancholy
entry |2 pages
Mental Theater
entry |5 pages
Metrical Theory and Versification
entry |3 pages
Middle Classes
entry |1 pages
Milton
entry |2 pages
Mitford, Mary Russell (1787–1855)
entry |2 pages
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689–1762)
entry |3 pages
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)
entry |2 pages
John Murray, Publishers
entry |5 pages
Music
letter |20 pages
N
entry |4 pages
Napoleon (Bonaparte) (1769–1821)
entry |2 pages
Napoleonic Wars
entry |3 pages
Nash, John (1752–1835)
entry |2 pages
Nationalism
entry |2 pages
Natural Supernaturalism and 20th-Century Critics
entry |3 pages
Necessity, Doctrine of
entry |2 pages
Negative Capability
entry |2 pages
Negative Romanticism
entry |3 pages
Nelson, Horatio (Viscount Nelson) (1758–1805)
entry |3 pages
Neoplatonism
entry |4 pages
Novel
letter |12 pages
O
entry |3 pages
Oliphant, Carolina, Baroness of Nairne (1766–1845)
entry |2 pages
Ollier, Charles (1788–1859)
entry |3 pages
Opie, Amelia Alderson (1769–1853)
entry |2 pages
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
entry |2 pages
Paley, William (1743–1805)
entry |3 pages
Palmer, Samuel (1805–81)
entry |3 pages
Panorama
entry |2 pages
Pantheism
entry |2 pages
Pantomime
entry |2 pages
Parliament
entry |2 pages
Pastoralism
entry |4 pages
Peacock, Thomas Love (1785–1866)
entry |3 pages
Percy, Thomas (1729–1811)
entry |2 pages
Peterloo
entry |3 pages
Phrenology
entry |3 pages
[The] Picturesque
entry |2 pages
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720–78)
entry |1 pages
Pitt, William (1759–1806)
entry |5 pages
Poetry
entry |2 pages
Polidori, John William 1795–1821)
entry |2 pages
Poole, Thomas (1765–1837)
entry |2 pages
Poor Law of 1834
entry |2 pages
Porter, Jane (1776–1850)
entry |2 pages
Price, Richard (1723–1791)
entry |3 pages
Priestley, Joseph (1733–1804)
entry |2 pages
Primitivism
entry |2 pages
Prometheanism
entry |3 pages
Prophecy and Apocalypse
entry |2 pages
Publishing
entry |3 pages
Puns
letter |2 pages
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)