Book description
The Handbook to Romanticism Studies
is an accessible and indispensible resource providing students and
scholars with a rich array of historical and up-to-date critical and
theoretical contexts for the study of Romanticism.
- Focuses on British Romanticism while also addressing continental
and transatlantic Romanticism and earlier periods
- Utilizes keywords such as imagination, sublime, poetics,
philosophy, race, historiography, and visual culture as points of
access to the study of Romanticism and the theoretical concerns
and the culture of the period
- Explores topics central to Romanticism studies and the critical
trends of the last thirty years
Joel Faflak is Associate Professor of English and Theory at the
University of Western Ontario. He is author of Romantic
Psychoanalysis: The Burden of the Mystery (2007), co-author of
Revelation and Knowledge (2011) and editor of Sanity,
Madness, Transformation: The Psyche of Romanticism (2005).
Julia M. Wright is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at
Dalhousie University. She is the author of Blake, Nationalism and
the Politics of Alienation (2004) and Ireland, India, and
Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2007) and the
editor of Irish Literature 1750-1900: An Anthology
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) and the 2-volume A Companion to Irish
Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
