紹介
For the first time in this innovative reference book the Romantic Age is surveyed across all aspects of British culture, rather than in literary or artistic terms alone. The Companion's two-part structure presents forty-two essays on major topics, by leading international experts, cross-referenced to an extensive alphabetical section covering all the principal figures, events, and movements in the broad culture of the period. Aimed at students and general readers as well as scholars, the essays constitute an accessible, pluralistic, and modern social history of the epoch; the alphabetical entries can either be used alongside them, for deeper information on specific subjects, or as a free-standing reference tool. The volume as a whole embraces both high and low culture, and explores its subject across the whole breadth of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. The book's multi-disciplinary approach treats Romanticism both in aesthetic terms-its meaning for painting, music, design, architecture, and above all literature-and as a historical epoch of 'revolutionary' transformations which ushered in modern democratic and industrialized society.
In this period Wedgwood turned taste into a commercial enterprise, Pierce Egan took Britain by storm with his sensational accounts of low-life in the capital, and Mary Shelley created, in Frankenstein, one of the enduring myths of scientific advance. The Companion revitalizes canonical Romantic figures in the context of the historical events, political and linguistic debates, commercial pressures, and plebeian subcultures of their day, as well as bringing back into historical focus individuals and events whose impact has often been muffled or forgotten. With over 100 integrated illustrations, bibliographies accompanying all the major essays, and an index to Part 1, this is the most comprehensive volume of its kind, offering a unique breadth of information to scholars and students of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, literature, and history. EDITORIAL BOARD: John Brewer (University of California) Marilyn Butler (Exeter College, University of Oxford) James Chandler (University of Chicago) Jerome J. McGann ( University of Virginia, Charlottesville) Mark Philp (Oriel College, Oxford) Robert Webb (University of Maryland).
目次
Introduction: A Romantic Age Companion
PART I: MAJOR ESSAYS
I. TRANSFORMING POLITY AND NATION
Revolution
War
Democracy
Women
Empire
Slavery
Policing
Law
Utopianism
II. REORDERING SOCIAL AND PRIVATE WORLDS
Religion
Sensibility
Poverty
Domesticity
Industrialization
Class
Land
Education
Medicine
III. CULTURE, CONSUMPTION, AND THE ARTS
Consumerism
Viewing
Publishing
Prints
Popular Culture
Theatre
Design
Music
Painting
Architecture
Poetry
Prose
Novels
IV. EMERGING KNOWLEDGES
Enlightenment
Political Economy
Natural Philosophy (Science)
Antiquarianism (Popular)
Mythology
Exploration
History
Psychology
Language
Literary Theory
Index to Part I
PART II: ALPHABETICALLY-ORDERED SHORTER ENTRIES
