A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age

List of Illustrations vii

Notes on Contributors viii

Introduction 1
Jon Klancher

1 Transfiguring God: Religion, Revolution, Romanticism 14
Robert M. Maniquis

2 Romanticism and Empire 36
Saree Makdisi

3 “Associations Respect[ing] the Past”: Enlightenment and Romantic Historicism 57
Anthony Jarrells

4 Nationalisms in Romantic Britain and Ireland: Culture, Politics, and the Global 77
Miranda Burgess

5 “With an Industry Incredible”: Politics, Writing, and the Public Sphere 99
Paul Keen

6 Romantic Justice: Law, Literature, and Individuality 119
Mark Schoenfield

7 Natural History in the Romantic Period 141
Noah Heringman

8 Romantic Sciences: British and Continental Thresholds 168
Frederick Burwick

9 Consumer Culture: Getting and Spending in the Romantic Age 189
Nicholas Mason

10 The Romantic-Era Book Trade 212
Lee Erickson

11 Visual Pleasures, Visionary States: Art, Entertainment, and the Nation 232
Gillen D’Arcy Wood

12 What’s at Stake? Kantian Aesthetics, Romantic and Modern Poetics, Sociopolitical Commitment 257
Robert Kaufman

Index 283