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 second edition includes:
Discussion of a broad range of writers including William Blake, Mary
Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, H.D. Thoreau, Frederick Douglas
A new chapter on American Romanticism
Discussion of the romantic sublime or romantic imagination
An engagement with critical debates such as postcolonialism, gender
studies and ecocriticism.