Romanticism Books

New and Published Books

1. Alexander von Humboldt's Translantic Personae

   Edited by Vera Kutzinski

   Who was Alexander von Humboldt? Was he really a lone genius? Was he another European apologist for colonialism in the Americas or the father of Latin American independence? Was he a roving Romanticist, or did his sensibilities belong to the Enlightenment? Naturalist, philosopher, historian, and...

   Published January 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Heidegger and the Romantics

   The Literary Invention of Meaning

   By Pol Vandevelde

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

   While there are many books on the romantics, and many books on Heidegger, there has been no book exploring the connection between the two. Pol Vandevelde’s new study forges this important link. Vandevelde begins by analyzing two models that have addressed the interaction between literature and...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
3. Romanticism

   2nd Edition

   By Aidan Day

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and critical issues of this crucial era. This fully updated...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
4. Romanticism and Modernity

   Edited by Thomas Pfau, Robert Mitchell

   Though traditionally defined as a relatively brief time period - typically the half century of 1780-1830 - the "Romantic era" constitutes a crucial, indeed unique, transitional phase in what has come to be called "modernity," for it was during these fifty years that myriad disciplinary, aesthetic,...

   Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge
5. Byron & Shakespeare - Wils Kni

   By Wilson Knight

   Published August 29th 2011 by Routledge
6. Lord Byron - Wilson Knight V1

   By Wilson Knight

   Published August 29th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Meaning of Life in Romantic Poetry and Poetics

   By Ross Wilson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   This volume brings together an impressive range of established and emerging scholars to investigate the meaning of ‘life’ in Romantic poetry and poetics. This investigation involves sustained attention to a set of challenging questions at the heart of British Romantic poetic practice and theory. Is...

   Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
8. Against The Age (Routledge Revivals)

   An Introduction to William Morris

   By Peter Faulkner

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Students new to the work of William Morris will find the full range of his achievements covered in this reissue of Peter Faulkner's excellent biography, first published in 1980. The author has carefully placed Morris in the context of the Victorian age, but has also suggested the relevance of his...

   Published June 29th 2011 by Routledge
9. Blake and the New Age (Routledge Revivals)

   By Kathleen Raine

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1979, this is a very welcome reissue of Kathleen Raine's seminal study of William Blake - England’s only prophet. He challenged with extraordinary vigour the premises which now underline much of Western civilization, hitting hard at the ideas of a naive materialist...

   Published May 29th 2011 by Routledge
10. Lord Byron

    The Critical Heritage

    Edited by Andrew Rutherford

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

    Published October 19th 2010 by Routledge