Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction xiii

A Note on Monetary Values xxvii

Myth 1 Romanticism began in 1798 1

Myth 2 English Romanticism was a reaction against the Enlightenment 8

Myth 3 The Romantics hated the sciences 17

Myth 4 The Romantics repudiated the Augustans, especially Pope and Dryden 29

Myth 5 The Romantic poets were misunderstood, solitary geniuses

• Places key authors and novels in their cultural and historical context
• Includes studies of major topics such as race, gender, melodrama, theatre, poetry, realism in fiction, and connections to other art forms
• Contributions from top interna

“Poe and Place is a multidimensional book that will compliment nicely earlier landmark national studies of Poe. It also makes a welcome addition to other recent attempts to place Poe in global literary contexts, and a useful contribution to geo-spatial literary studies.” (Stephen Rachman, Director of the American Studies Program, Michigan State University, USA, and co-editor of The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe (1995))

“Tracking Poe’s relat