[Key Concepts in Romantic Literature (Key Concepts: Literature)] [Author: Moore, Jane] [September, 2010]

by Jane Moore

Key Concepts in Romantic Literature is a comprehensive guide to the literature, criticism and history of the culturally rich and politically turbulent Romantic era, spanning 1789-1832. The book offers a stimulating and critically up-to-date account of the poetry, novels and drama which characterized the Romantic period, alongside an historically-informed account of the important social, political and aesthetic contexts which shaped that body of writing.Features Historical and conceptual definitions of the term 'Romanticism'Clear accounts of the contextual influences that shaped the age's literature (such as the French Revolution, slavery and the position of women)Readings of poets such as Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge, Smith, Robinson, Byron, Shelley, Hemans, Keats and Landon, novelists such as Austen and Scott, and dramatists such as Baillie and MaturinA survey of criticism of the Romantics from the early nineteenth century to the present day

Paperback

First published October 12, 2010

About the author

Jane Moore is an English journalist, author and television presenter, best known as a columnist for The Sun newspaper and as a panellist and anchor on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women between 1999 and 2002, returning as a regular panellist from 2013 onwards. Since 2018 Moore has been regularly relief-anchoring the show.