Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Editors' Preface; Author's Preface; 1 The Political and Economic Scene; Revolution; War; Rights; Reform; Industrialisation; 2 Travel, Exploration, and the Geographies of Mind; Britain and Europe; America; Africa; The South Seas; The East; 3 The Literary Marketplace; Publishers and publishing; The reading public; Authors and authorship; The periodical press; 4 Education and the Family; The theory and politics of education; Primary education; Secondary education; Higher and adult education; Female education; Courtship and marriage
Parent-child relations5 Science; Naturphilosophie; The physical sciences; The life sciences; The nature of science; 6 Religion and Ethics; The religious spectrum; Religion, politics, revolution; Ideas and debates; Directions in ethics; 7 The Sense of the Past; The age of history; The lure of the past 1: ancient Greece; Primitivism; The lure of the past 2: ancient Britain and the Middle Ages; 8 Aesthetics and the Visual Arts; Aesthetic theory; The beautiful and the sublime; Landscape gardening: the cult of the picturesque; Architecture; Painting; Prints; Chronology; General Bibliographies
Individual AuthorsIndex; Longman Literature in English Series
Summary
"Accompanied by a detailed chronology and plentiful suggestions for further reading, this book provides a solid foundation for students to make their own sense of the poetry, fiction and other creative writing that emerged as part of the Romantic literary tradition."--Jacket
