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  1. The Politics of Ancient Ballads: ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’ and Christabel

    This chapter considers ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’ and Christabel in the context of Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765)....
    Jacob Lloyd in Coleridge's Political Poetics
    Chapter 2023

  2. Balloons, Romantics and Beyond

    The first section of this chapter examines both social and literary consequences in the rise, for example, of the Biedermeier period in Germany and...
    John Gilroy in Romantics and the Era of Early Flight
    Chapter 2022

  3. E. S. Dallas’s Literary Theory: The “Hidden Soul” and the Workings of the Imagination

    The central thesis of this chapter is that, for E.S. Dallas, the primary recipient of literary meaning is the reader’s unconscious in a process...
    Thalia Trigoni in The Persistence of the Soul in Literature, Art and Politics
    Chapter 2024

  4. ‘Where the Eternal Are’: Adonais (1821)

    This chapter argues that Shelley’s elegy for John Keats, Adonais (1821), represents his most sustained, and accomplished, attempt to ‘illumine’ (l....
    Andrew Lacey in Shelley's Visions of Death
    Chapter 2024

  5. Stuart’s Post and the Reign of Mary Robinson

    This chapter turns its attention to the most important Della Cruscan poet to appear in the papers in the years immediately following France’s...
    Claire Knowles in Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper
    Chapter 2023

  6. Lies and Imagination: Precocity in Children’s Literature

    In this chapter, I argue, first, that in key contributions to scientific Child Study precocity is vilified to an extent that exceeds all but the most...
    Roisín Laing in The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture
    Chapter 2024

  7. Chatterton, Thomas: Das lyrische Werk

    Das Schicksal des 1770 im Alter von nur 17 Jahren unter ungeklärten Umständen verstorbenen Dichters Thomas Chatterton (Wordsworth nannte ihn „the...
    Rainer Schöwerling, Irina Bauder-Begerow in Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL)
    Living reference work entry 2020

  8. Origins

    This chapter describes the origin of flight and its prefigurement in works of poetry and fiction. It examines the contribution made by the earliest...
    John Gilroy in Romantics and the Era of Early Flight
    Chapter 2022

  9. Hazlitt, William

    Sohn eines unitarischen Geistlichen, der nach Boston ging; 1787 Rückkehr der Familie nach Shropshire; nach abgebrochenen Studien der Theologie...
    Uwe Böker in Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL)
    Living reference work entry 2020

  10. Ekphrasis

    Dominique Gracia in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing
    Reference work entry 2022

  11. Writing on Keats, Writing with Keats: Ghostlier Intonations, Marginalia, and Epigraphs Among Friends—Or, My Keats

    This chapter explores McLane’s history of reading, citing, annotating, and thinking about Keats. She draws on Matthew Rohrer’s notion of writing...
    Maureen N. McLane in Keats’s Reading / Reading Keats
    Chapter 2022

  12. Air-Mindedness

    This chapter examines the balloon as central to Romantic ‘air-mindedness’, beginning with the shared but uneasy relationship between child-like play,...
    John Gilroy in Romantics and the Era of Early Flight
    Chapter 2022

  13. ‘A detached peninsula’: Infancy in the Work of Thomas De Quincey

    Martina Domines Veliki and Cian Duffy take as their subject Thomas De Quincey: a major figure in British Romanticism whose engagement with infancy...
    Martina Domines Veliki, Cian Duffy in Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy
    Chapter 2020

  14. Southey, Robert

    1793–1794 Besuch des Balliol College (Oxford), kein Abschluss; wurde neben Wordsworth und...
    Stephan Jaeger in Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL)
    Living reference work entry 2020

  16. Later Romantics: Keats and Shelley

    The air-balloon was a familiar and well-established sight in the post-Napoleonic years, and even as the new technologies that would gradually...
    John Gilroy in Romantics and the Era of Early Flight
    Chapter 2022

  17. The Social Insect and the Fashionable Newspaper: Reading Bee Poems in the World and the Morning Post

    Fashionable West End newspapers such as the Oracle, the Morning Post and the World became an important space for the publication of original poetry...
    Claire Knowles in Bees, Science, and Sex in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
    Chapter 2024

  18. “Over Sands to the Lakes”: Journeys Over Morecambe Bay Before and After the Age of Steam

    This chapter charts a transformation in perceptions of the sands of Morecambe Bay between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Combining...
    Christopher Donaldson in Sandscapes
    Chapter 2020

  19. Cologne

    Norbert Lennartz in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies
    Reference work entry 2022

  20. De Quincey, Thomas

    Schulabbruch; für ein Jahr Leben auf der Straße; 1803 Studium in Oxford; Opiumabhängigkeit; 1808 Studienabbruch; Freundschaft mit...
    Barbara Schaff in Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL)
    Living reference work entry 2020
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