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David Damrosch is Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, and has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include What Is World Literature? (2003),The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2009). He is the founding general editor of the six-volumeLongman Anthology of World Literature, 2/e (2009) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009). Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Professor and Chair, Department of English, at Pomona College, and Past President of the Modernist Studies Association. He is the author of The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism and Is Rock Dead?, and the editor of Rereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism; Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion, Canonization, and Rereading; Reading Rock & Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics; the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners; and The Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, and co-general editor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature. Peter J. Manning is Professor at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Byron and His Fictions and Reading Romantics, and of numerous essays on the British Romantic poets and prose writers. With Susan J. Wolfson, he has co-edited Selected Poems of Byron, and Selected Poems of Beddoes, Hood, and Praed. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association. Susan J. Wolfson is Professor of English at Princeton University and is general editor of Longman Cultural Editions. A specialist in Romanticism, her critical studies include The Questioning Presence: Wordsworth, Keats, and the Interrogative Mode in Romantic Poetry, Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism, and Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism. She has also produced editions of Felicia Hemans, Lord Byron, Thomas L. Beddoes, William M. Praed, Thomas Hood, as well as the Longman Cultural Edition of Shelley's Frankenstein. She received Distinguished Scholar Award from Keats-Shelley Association, and grants and fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is President (2009-2010) of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers.

Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A, The: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries, 5/e

The Romantics and Their Contemporaries

Illustration: Thomas Girtin, Tintern Abbey

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD AT A GLANCE

INTRODUCTION

LITERATURE AND THE AGE: NOUGHT WAS LASTING

ROMANCE, ROMANTICISM, AND THE POWERS OF THE IMAGINATION

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ITS REVERBERATIONS

Illustration: Thomas Rowlandson, after a drawing by Lord George Murray,

The Contrast

THE MONARCHY

Illustration: Thomas Lawrence, Coronation Portrait of the Prince Regent

(later, George IV)

INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND AND NEVER-RESTING LABOUR

CONSUMERS AND COMMODITIES

Color Plate 1: John Martin, The Bard

Color Plate 2: Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs. Mary Robinson

Color Plate 3: Thomas Phillips, Lord Byron

Color Plate 4: Anonymous, Portrait of Olaudah Equiano

Color Plate 5: J. M. W. Turner, Slavers Throwing the Dead and Dying

Overboard, Typhoon Coming On

Color Plate 6: William Blake, The Little Black Boy (second plate only)

Color Plate 7: William Blake, The Little Black Boy (another version of #6)

Color Plate 8: William Blake, The Tyger

Color Plate 9: William Blake, The Sick Rose

Color Plate 10: Joseph Wright, An Iron Forge Viewed from Without

AUTHORSHIP, AUTHORITY, AND ROMANTICISM

POPULAR PROSE

Illustration: George Cruikshank, The Press

PERSPECTIVES

The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque

Illustration: Thomas Rowlandson, Dr. Syntax Sketching by the Lake

Illustration: Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Passage of the St. Gothard,

1804

EDMUND BURKE

from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime

and Beautiful

Illustration: Benjamin Robert Haydon, Study after the Elgin

Marbles

IMMANUEL KANT

from The Critique of Judgement

WILLIAM GILPIN

Illustration: Edward Dayes, Tintern Abbey from across the

Wye, 1794

from Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel,

and on Sketching Landscape

Illustration: From William Gilpins Three Essays, 1792

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

from A Vindication of the Rights of Men

JANE AUSTEN

from Pride and Prejudice

from Northanger Abbey

MARIA JANE JEWSBURY

A Rural Excursion

JOHN...