Romantic writings

CHAPTER ONE Romantic poems and contexts 3 STEPHEN BYGRAVE CHAPTER TWO Versions of British Romantic writing 47 STEPHEN BYGRAVE CHAPTER THREE Defences of poetry 71 GRAHAM ALLEN CHAPTER FOUR Women writers and readers 91 SUSAN MATTHEWS CHAPTER FIVE Reading The Prelude 113 STEPHEN BYGRAVE CHAPTER Six Romantic verse narrative 139 GRAHAM ALLEN CHAPTER SEVEN Reading Byron 161 STEPHEN BYGRAVE CHAPTER EIGHT Women pOCtS 1780-1830 183 AMANDA GILROY CHAPTER NINE Romantic allegory 203 GRAHAM ALLEN CHAPTER TEN Colonialism and the exotic 227 NIGEL LEASK CHAPTER ELEVEN Reading Kleist and Hoffmann 231 RICHARD ALLEN CONCLUSION 269 STEPHEN BYGRAVE Part Two Romantic poetry: The I altered 279 STUART CURRAN The oriental renaissance 294 RAYMOND SCHWAB The Corsair 303 LORD BYRON The uncanny 318 SIGMUND FREUD The concept of Romanticism in literary history 326 RENE WELLEK Bibliography 337 Acknowledgements 340 Index 343