Forthcoming Romanticism Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Legacies of Romanticism

   Literature, Culture, Aesthetics

   Edited by Carmen Casaliggi, Paul March-Russell

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   This book visits the Romantic legacy that was central to the development of literature and culture from the 1830s onward. Although critical accounts have examined aspects of this long history of indebtedness, this is the first study to survey both Nineteenth and Twentieth century culture. The...

   To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. Romanticism, History, Historicism

   Essays on an Orthodoxy

   Edited by Damian Walford Davies

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism’s revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment...

   To Be Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
3. Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1830

   Nationalism, Ideology, Gender

   Edited by Alison Martin, Susan Pickford

   Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing

   This book examines how non-fictional travel accounts were rewritten, reshaped, and reoriented in translation between 1750 and 1850, a period that saw a sudden surge in the genre's popularity. It explores how these translations played a vital role in the transmission and circulation of knowledge...

   To Be Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Female Romantics

   Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism

   By Caroline Franklin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   The nineteenth century is sometimes seen as a lacuna between two literary periods. In terms of women’s writing, however, the era between the death of Mary Wollstonecraft and the 1860s feminist movement produced a coherent body of major works, impelled by an ongoing dialogue between Enlightenment ‘...

   To Be Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
5. Blake and the New Age (Routledge Revivals)

   By Kathleen Raine

   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...

   To Be Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Against The Age (Routledge Revivals)

   An Introduction to William Morris

   By Peter Faulkner

   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...

   To Be Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Dorothy Wordsworth's Ecology

   By Kenneth Cervelli

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   Dorothy Wordsworth has a unique place in literary studies. Notoriously self-effacing, she assiduously eschewed publication, yet in her lifetime, her journals inspired William to write some of his best-known poems. Memorably depicting daily life in a particular environment (most famously, Grasmere),...

   To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge