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Addresses how Victorian receptions of Romanticism and Romantic writers were shaped by notions of "nervousness.

Marking Time, edited by Joel Faflak, analyses prevailing notions of evolution by tracing its origins to the literary, scientific, and philosophical discourses of the long nineteenth century.

This new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture

Romanticism and the Emotions offers the first essay collection to examine the recent focus on the importance of emotion in literature within the context of Romanticism. The wide range of authors covered, from Jane Austen to Michael Faraday, including Lord Byron and Immanuel Kant, enables fascinating conclusions to be drawn.

The Handbook to Romanticism Studies is an accessible and indispensible resource providing students and scholars with a rich array of historical and up-to-date critical and theoretical contexts for the study of Romanticism. * Focuses on British Romanticism while also addressing continental and transatlantic Romanticism and earlier periods * Utilizes keywords such as imagination, sublime, poetics, philosophy, race, historiography, and visual cu...

How the Romantics invented psychoanalysis in advance of Freud.

The first essay collection to examine emotion across the span of Romantic literature and thought, in light of new scholarship.

Nervous Reactions considers Victorian responses to Romanticism, particularly the way in which the Romantic period was frequently constructed in Victorian-era texts as a time of nervous or excitable authors(and readers) at odds with Victorian values of self-restraint, moderation, and stolidity. Represented in various ways--as a threat to social order, as a desirable freedom of feeling, as a pathological weakness that must be cured--this nervous...

The Handbook to Romanticism Studies is an accessible and indispensible resource providing students and scholars with a rich array of historical and up-to-date critical and theoretical contexts for the study of Romanticism. * Focuses on British Romanticism while also addressing continental and transatlantic Romanticism and earlier periods * Utilizes keywords such as imagination, sublime, poetics, philosophy, race, historiography, and visual cul...

This new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture

How the Romantics invented psychoanalysis in advance of Freud.

The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope reflects on the challenging and often vexed work of intellectualism within the public sphere by exploring how cultural materials frame intellectual debates within the clear and ever-present gaze of the public writ large.