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An Archaeology of Sympathy
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 36.00In the middle of the eighteenth century, something new made itself felt in European culture—a tone or style that came to be called the sentimental. The sentimental mode went on to shape not just literature, art, music, and cinema, but people’s very structures of feeling, their ways of doing and being. In what is sure to become... more...
Morocco That Was
Eland Publishing 2012; US$ 10.19Until 1912 Morocco had never suffered foreign domination, and its mountainous interior was as closed to foreigners as Tibet. Walter Harris was the exception. He lived in the country for more than thirty-five years, and as The Times correspondant he observed every aspect of its life. He describes the unfettered Sultanate in all its dark, melodramatic... more...
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 22.00An engaging collection of new essays covering Romantic poetry, its historical and literary contexts, its forms, and its enduring appeal. more...
Byron and Romanticism
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 32.00This collection represents twenty-five years of work by Jerome McGann, one of the most important critics of Romanticism and Byron studies. Many of these essays have previously been available only in specialist scholarly journals. Now McGann's influential work on Byron can be appreciated more widely by new generations of students and scholars. more...
Contesting the Gothic
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 36.00Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, James Watt shows the Gothic to have been a heterogeneous body of fiction, characterised at times by antagonistic relations between writers or works. He examines the novels' political import, and looks ahead to the fluctuating critical status of Scott and the Gothic. more...
Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 40.00This ambitious study sheds new light on the way in which the English Romantics dealt with the basic problems of knowledge. Milnes argues that it is in their oscillation between knowledge and indifference that the Romantics prefigure the ambivalent negotiations of modern post-analytic philosophy. more...
Fatal Women of Romanticism
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 32.00Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales or fatal women played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities and informed their exploration of issues surrounding the body, sexuality and politics. Craciun covers a wide range of writers and genres from the 1790s through the 1830s. more...
Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 40.00Julie Kipp examines Romantic writers' treatments of motherhood and maternal bodies in the context of the legal, medical, educational, and socioeconomic debates about motherhood so popular during the period. She argues that these discussions turned the physical processes associated with mothering into matters of national importance. more...
Literary Magazines and British Romanticism
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 40.00Mark Parker argues that magazines such as the London Magazine and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine offered an innovative and collaborative space for writers and their work - indeed, magazines became one of the pre-eminent literary vehicles of the 1820s and 1830s. more...
Romanticism and the Human Sciences
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 40.00This book examines the relationship between British Romantic poetry and the human sciences of the period. Maureen McLane offers original readings of major works in the Romantic canon, focusing on their engagement with the philosophical, political and anthropological writing of pre-eminent theorists such as Malthus, Godwin, Burke and others. more...









