Romanticism
Keywords
Published on 8. December 2014
400 pages
978-1-118-89309-8 (ISBN)
Description
Compiles 70 of the key terms most frequently used or discussedby authors of the Romantic period - and most oftendeliberated by critics and literary historians of the era.
* Offers an indispensable resource for understanding the ideasand differing interpretations that shaped the Romantic period
* Includes keywords spanning Abolition and Allegory, throughMadness and Monsters, to Vision and Vampires
* Features in-depth descriptions of each entry's directmeaning and connotations in relation to its usage and thought inliterary culture
* Provides deep insights into the political, social, and culturalclimate of one of the most expressive periods of Western literaryhistory
* Draws on the author's extensive experience of teaching,lecturing, and writing on Romantic literature
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Frederick Burwick is Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. The author or editor of 30 books and more than 140 scholarly articles, Burwick is also co-editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of Romanticism (2012). Other recent publications include Romantic Drama: Acting and Reacting (2009) and Playing to the Crowd, London Popular Theatre, 1780-1830 (2011).
Content
Introduction
A
Abolition
Allegory
Antiquarianism
Art for Art's Sake
Associationism
Autobiography
B
Bardolatry
Bluestockings
C
Childhood
Colonialism
Crime
D
Dandyism
Dialectics
Dreams
E
Ekphrasis
Eroticism
F
Folklore
G
Genius
Gothic
Grotesque
Gusto
H
Harlequinade
Hellenism
Higher Criticism
Homosexuality
I
Illusion
Imagination
Imitation
Incest
Inspiration
M
Madness
Medievalism
Melancholy
Melodrama
Mesmerism
Metaliterature
Metonomy
Monsters
Mythopoeia
N
Nature
Necessitarianism
Negative Capability
O
Organicism
Orientalism
P
Pantheism
Parody
Passion
Pathetic Fallacy
Picturesque
Poetic Form
Prometheus
R
Reflection
Reform
Religion
Revolution
Rights
Romanticism
Romantic Irony
Ruins
S
Satire
Science
Sensibility
Solitude
Sublime
Supernaturalism
Symbol
Sympathy
T
Transcendentalism
Translation
Travel
V
Vampire Aesthetics
Vision
W
Women's Rights
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