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

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...

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...