ABSTRACT
Aidan Day considers the history and usage of the term Romanticism, and the changing views and debates which surround it. He traces its history through nineteenth and twentieth-century readings, incorporating contemporary debates such as feminism, post-structuralism and new historicism. Day places the traditional canon in the wider context of their contemporary political and philosophical thinkers. A range of writers, both canonical and non-canonical, are included in his survey, including:
- William Blake
- William Wordsworth
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- John Keats
- Shelley
- Edmund Blake
- Thomas Paine
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Jane Austen
- Charlotte Smith
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Romanticism takes a clear, wide-ranging view of the subject and is essential reading for students new to the subject.
