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Author Bainbridge, Simon, 1965-

Title Romanticism : a sourcebook / edited by Simon Bainbridge
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

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Description xxv, 317 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Series Sourcebooks for English studies
Contents Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Introduction -- Timeline -- Chronological List Of Major Literary Romantic Period Texts -- Section One: Historical Events -- Introduction -- 1. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens. -- 2. Richard Price, A Discourse on the Love of our Country. -- 3. Helen Maria William, Letters from France. -- 4. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. -- 5. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men. -- 6. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man. -- 7. Hannah More, Village Politics. -- 8. William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. -- 9. Theobald Wolfe Tone, An Address to the People of Ireland. -- 10. William Thomas Fitzgerald, ?Britons, to Arms?. -- 11. Anon., ?The British Heroes?. -- 12. Robert Southey, The Life of Nelson. -- 13. Richard Whately, Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte. -- 14. Richard Carlile, On Peterloo, Sherwin?s Weekly Political Register. -- 15. Thomas Babington Macaulay, Speech on the Reform Bill. -- Section Two: Society, Politics, And Class -- Introduction -- 1. Philip Thicknesse, An Account of the Four Persons Found Starved to Death. -- 2. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nation. -- 3. Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. -- 4. John Thelwall, ?The Causes of the Present Dearness and Scarcity of Provisions?. -- 5. Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population. -- 6. Robert Owen, A New View of Society. -- 7. William Cobbett, ?The General Enclosure Bill? and ?On the evils of collecting Manufacturers into great masses?. -- 8. William Hone, The Political Litany. -- 9. Richard Oastler, ?Slavery in Yorkshire?. -- Section Three: Women -- Introduction -- 1. James Fordyce, Sermons to Young Women. -- 2. John Gregory, A Father?s Legacy to His Daughters. -- 3. Catherine Macaulay Graham, Letters on Education. -- 4. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. -- 5. Mary Hays, Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women. -- 6. Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. -- 7. Jane West, Letters to a Young Lady. -- 8. William Thompson [and Anna Wheeler], Appeal of One Half of the Human Race. -- Section Four: Religion And Belief -- Introduction -- 1. William Carey, An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians, to use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens. -- 2. William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. -- 3. Joseph Priestley, The Present State of Europe Compared with Ancient Prophecies. -- 4. Richard Brothers, A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies and Times. -- 5. Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason. -- 6. William Wilberforce, A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians. -- 7. Joanna Southcott, The Strange Effects of Faith. -- 8. William Paley, Natural Theology. -- 9. Leigh Hunt, ?An Attempt to Shew the Folly and Danger of Methodism?. -- 10. Leigh Hunt, ?On the Rejection of the Catholic Petition?. -- 11. Percy Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism. -- 12. Richard Carlile, An Address to Men of Science. -- Section Five: Philosophy -- Introduction -- 1. John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. -- 2. David Hartley, Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations. -- 3. Jean Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse upon ?Inequality. -- 4. Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. -- 5. Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emilius and Sophia. -- 6. Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. -- 7. Comte de Volney, The Ruins. -- 8. William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. -- 9. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Statesman?s Manual and Biographia Literaria. -- 10. John Stuart Mill, ?The Spirit of the Age?. -- Section Six: Aesthetics -- Introduction -- 1. Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks. -- 2. Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into ? the Sublime and Beautiful. -- 3. Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Art. -- 4. Thomas West, A Guide to the Lakes. -- 5. William Gilpin, Three Essays [on the Picturesque]. -- 6. Uvedale Price, An Essay on the Picturesque. -- 7. Benjamin Robert Haydon, On the Elgin Marbles. -- Section Seven: Popular Culture, Leisure, And Entertainment -- 1. John Brand, Observations on Popular Antiquities. -- 2. Joseph Strutt, The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. -- 3. William Hazlitt, On Sarah Siddons and Edmund Kean. -- 4. Pierce Egan, Life in London. -- 5. James Catnach (publisher), ?Confession and Execution of William Corder?. -- 6. Prince P?ckler-Muskau, Tour in ? England. -- Section Eight: Literary Production And Reception -- Introduction -- 1. Anna Barbauld, ?On Romances, An Imitation?. -- 2. James Lackington, Memoirs of ? The Life of James Lackington. -- 3. George Canning and John Hookham Frere, On Jacobin Poetry and ?The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder?. -- 4. Anon., ?Terrorist Novel Writing?. -- 5. Richard Polwhele, The Unsex?d Females. -- 6. Francis Jeffrey, On the Lake School. -- 7. Walter Scott, On Lord Byron. -- 8. John Gibson Lockhart, ?The Cockney School of Poetry?. -- 9. Ann Radcliffe, ?On the Supernatural in Poetry?. -- 10. Francis Jeffrey, On Felicia Hemans. -- Section Nine: Empire, Slavery, And Exploration -- Introduction -- 1. William Jones, ?On the Poetry of the Eastern Nations?. -- 2. John Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of his Present Majesty. -- 3. David Samwell, Life and Character of Captain Cook. -- 4. Ottobah Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on ? Slavery. -- 5. John Newton, Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade. -- 6. James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. -- 7. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ?On the Slave Trade?. -- 8. Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Practical Education. -- 9. Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa. -- 10. James Mill, The History of British India. -- Section Ten: Science -- Introduction -- 1. Joseph Priestley, Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air. -- 2. James Hutton, Abstract ? Concerning the System of the Earth. -- 3. Erasmus Darwin, ?The Loves of the Plants? and The Temple of Nature. -- 4. Humphry Davy, A Discourse ? on Chemistry. -- 5. Giovanni Aldini, An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism. -- 6. John Abernethy, An Enquiry into the ? Theory of Life. -- 7. William Lawrence, An Introduction to Comparative Anatomy and Physiology. -- 8. Baron George Cuvier, A Discourse on the Revolutions of the Surface of the Globe. -- 9. Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology. -- Bibliography
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and index
Subject English literature -- 18th century -- Sources.
English literature -- 19th century -- Sources.
Romanticism -- Great Britain -- Sources.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- 18th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056808 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012007
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056819 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012007
Author Bainbridge, Simon, 1965-
LC no. 2008016149
ISBN 0230000347 (hbk.)
0230000355 (paperback)
9780230000346 (hbk.)
9780230000353 (paperback)