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“Pandemic” was Merriam-Webster’s—and everyone else’s—2020 Word of the Year, but the silent partner of any crisis is “contingency.” The unconscionable death toll in the United States is at least partly the result of a failure to prepare for the non-surprise surprise of the pandemic. At the time this introduction was written, we were repeatedly…
The years between 1750 and 1850 were pivotal for shaping contemporary ideas about wellbeing, health, illness, and disability. Romantic thinkers saw wellbeing as relative, embodied, and inextricable from social and political circumstances. This volume shows that the Romantic era can offer resources for thinking about the particular…
This collection takes up two interrelated questions. One, how might the interdisciplinary field of sound studies change the way we engage with Romantic literature? Two, how can sound studies foment broader inquiries into a range of Romanticisms not exclusive to British Romanticism? Inspired by such thinking, the essays gathered here attest to…
Recent work by Latour, Descola and others has argued in favor of putting the concept of nature to “death” in part because it authorizes a set of power relations grounded on a constitutive exclusion: the notion of a “nature” separate from the “social” generates a politics without due process for elements of the collective whose externality to…
"Psychosis and/as Cultural Crisis" introduces and contextualizes the relation between certain kinds of individual and cultural psychotic expressions during the Regency and George III’s comportment as the “mad king,” behavior tinged with psychotic overtones. “Psychosis” and “psychotic” will be used in this volume primarily to…
While modern scholars often focus on examining Romantic-period works’ receptions around the times of their original publications, Romanticism is in many respects an event that continues to happen. Assumptions propagated by its major texts and authors strongly determine how we think and feel about a vast range of subjects, including nature,…
What does it feel like to be (or not to be) attached to a country or community, to have (or not to have) membership or citizenship, in ways that one cannot control? This volume will turn to Romantic poetics to consider how public feelings operate and circulate through the language of poetry. How does poetry…
For the past several years Romantic Circles Pedagogies Commons has published special volumes that speak to specific issues within romanticist pedagogy, such as Romanticism and Technology, Teaching Global Romanticism, or Teaching the…
Nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish literature engages a wide range of thematic and aesthetic preoccupations. This volume brings together several essays that highlight such breadth, even as the essays converge upon several questions that recur consistently throughout this literature: what does it mean to advertise one’s subjectivity, especially…
This volume considers the place of Romantic works and the Romantic period itself in the work of one of the most important twentieth-century theorists of culture, Raymond Williams. Few works have generated as much critical thinking about Romantic writing’s literary purposes and social meanings as Culture and Society:…