York Notes Companions: Romantic Literature by John Gilroy

York Notes Companions: Romantic Literature by John Gilroy

The literature of the Romantic era is steeped in the politics of revolution and reaction. This volume looks at first and second generation poets such as Wordsworth, Blake, Byron and Shelley and explores their engagement with the turbulent history of their times. Other genres such as drama, fiction and travel writing are also discussed, with close attention paid to texts by Walpole, Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft. Combining thematic analysis with modern critical perspectives, the volume also includes key contextual sections focusing on “Imagination, Truth and Reason”, “Heroes and Anti-heroes” and “Faith, Doubt and Myth”.

"The writing is easy to read and comprehend yet manages to cram in sufficient detail.. It covers topic areas very well in terms of different types of Romantic literature."

- Kimberley Simpson, English Student, Warwick University

Dr John Gilroy (BA Newcastle: MPhil Warwick: Cert.Ed. Leeds) lectures part-time in the English Department of Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. He is a lecturer for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education and is a course director for its international and residential programmes. His most recent publications are contributions on Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats for The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature (Steven R. Serafin & Valerie Grosvenor-Myer eds, Continuum, 2003), Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selected Poems, 2007 (www.Humanities-Ebooks.co.uk) and Philip Larkin: Selected Poems, 2009 (www.Humanities-Ebooks.co.uk). He is interested in all aspects of British Romanticism and is currently researching material on the significance of early aeronautics in the Romantic period.

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ISBN 13	9781408204795
ISBN 10	1408204797
Title	York Notes Companions: Romantic Literature
Author	John Gilroy
Series	York Notes Companions
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pearson Education Limited
Year published	2010-06-15
Number of pages	376
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