Enlightening romanticism, romancing the enlightenment British novels from 1750 to 1832 (Ashgate, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index
Introduction : enlightened romanticism or romantic Enlightenment? - Miriam L. Wallace -- - Novel romanticism in 1751 : Eliza Haywood's Betsy Thoughtless - Margaret Case Croskery -- - The melancholy Briton : Enlightenment sources of the Gothic - Peter Walmsley -- - "Disagreeable misconstructions" : epistolary trouble in Charlotte Smith's Desmond - Scott C. Campbell -- - Reason and romance : rethinking romantic-era fiction through Jane West's The advantages of education - Daniel Schierenbeck -- - The politics of masculinity in the 1790s radical novel : Hugh Trevor, Caleb Williams, and the romance of sentimental friendship - Shawn Lisa Maurer -- - The "double sense" of honor : revising gendered social codes in Amelia Opie's Adeline Mowbray - Shelley King --Reading the metropole : Elizabeth Hamilton's Translations of the letters of a Hindoo Rajah - Tara Ghoshal Wallace -- - The woman of genius : in praise of the inchoate future - Julie Shaffer -- - Frances Trollope's America : from Enlightenment aesthetics to Victorian class - Christopher Flynn -- - Response essays - How we see : the 1790s - Patricia M. Spacks - Cultural transitions, literary judgments, and the romantic-era British novel - Stephen C. Behrendt
In this innovative volume, scholars who typically write under the rubric of either the long eighteenth century or Romanticism examine novels claimed by both scholarly periods. Rather than simply opposing an Enlightenment of rationality, propriety, and progress to a Romantic Period of inspiration, heroic individualism, and sublime emotionality, these essays reveal a productive tension, challenging traditional definitions of 'Enlightenment' and 'Romantic.' Patricia Meyer Spacks and Stephen C. Behrendt respond, situating the essays and the stakes