A selective, critical guide to scholarship and criticism on the literature of the Romantic period, 1780-1830. The introduction surveys general studies of the period and there are individual chapters on the main poets and novelists as well as chapters on women poets, women novelists, male poets, political prose and essayists.

`this useful volume ... in addition to providing helpful information on the most reliable texts ... this volume not only reduces the problem of the impossibility of reading everything about Romanticism, but also ... presents a message which many will find both surprising and reassuring: namely that far from approaching the limits of scholarly interest or ingenuity, Romantic studies remains a field of notable vigour and diversity.' David Vallins, British Assoc. for Romantic Studies, Issue.17, March 2000. `This is an excellent biography of mostly post-1970 criticism of romantic period writing. It is also a necessary one. As our understanding of romanticism (nad romanticisms) has undergone one revolution after another, the need for a reliable guide to the variety and volume of new work being published has never been felt more keenly. this book fills that role: with 18 seperate chapters on diverse subjects ('Wordsworth', 'Clare', 'Romantic Gothic' and so on), each offering an assessment of current criticism and a full listing of relevant works, this book will be an indispensible tool for anyone working in the period.' Michael John Kooy, Romanticism on the Net 18 (May 2000)

Includes individual chapterson the most-studied poets of the period: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Clare Contains separate chapters on the writings of Scott, and the Novels of Austen, Mary Shelley, and Peacock Reflects recent changes in understanding of the period, with chapters on women poets, political prose, essayists, and women novelists of the period

Includes individual chapterson the most-studied poets of the period: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Clare Contains separate chapters on the writings of Scott, and the Novels of Austen, Mary Shelley, and Peacock Reflects recent changes in understanding of the period, with chapters on women poets, political prose, essayists, and women novelists of the period