Necromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers' compulsion to visit literary homes,
landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on …

In the early nineteenth century, as amateur archaeologists excavated Pompeii, Egypt,
Assyria, and the first prehistoric sites, a myth arose of archaeology as a magical science …

“Poetry,” the French phi los o pher Denis Diderot argues,“must have something in it that is
barbaric, vast, and wild.” 1 His counterparts in Great Britain found such barbaric wildness in …

In the eighteenth century, antiquaries—wary of the biases of philosophers, scientists,
politicians, and historians—used old objects to establish what they claimed was a true …

This book studies the print culture of the nineteenth century as it shaped the meanings and
the cultural significance of literary works by women writers-Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans …

There emerged, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a reflexive relationship
between shifting codes of legal evidence in British courtrooms and the growing fascination …

At the end of the Eighteenth century, British writers began to celebrate work in a strangely
indirect way. Instead of describing diligence as an attribute of character, poets and novelists …

WG Sebald thought of his 1997 lectures on" Air War and Literature" as his essay on poetics.
These lectures first attained a certain notoriety because of Sebald's assault on postwar …

How and to what extent did women writers shape and inform the aesthetics of Romanticism?
Were undervalued genres such as the romance, gothic fiction, the tale, and the sentimental …

The British Romantic era was a vibrant and exciting time in the history of the novel. Yet,
aside from a few iconic books-Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein-it has been ignored or …