In his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which he finds "rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent. However, they have not always been this way. In fact,…
"The Romantic Era witnessed a series of conflicts concerning definitions of health and disease. In this book, Martin Wallen discusses those conflicts and the cultural values that drove them. The six chapters progress from the mainstream rejuvenation of the Socratic values by Wor…
A unique introduction, guide, and reference work for students and readers of Romantic literature, consisting of eleven original essays.
Romanticism and feminism
Jonathan Shears offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. He devotes a chapter to each of the major Romantic poets, contextualizing their 'misreadings' of Milton with a range of historical, aesthetic and theoretical contexts and d…
"The essays in this volume have all been carefully chosen by Cynthia Chase to exemplify the most important strands in contemporary critical thought on Romantic literature, in particular the best of recent feminist, deconstructive, and new historicist writing. They include contri…