Title: An Oxford companion to the Romantic Age :
Authors: McCalman, Iain.
Date: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: xiii, 780 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: D
Abstract: "For the first time in this innovative reference book the Romantic Age is surveyed across all aspects of British culture, rather than in literary or artistic terms alone. The Companion's two-part structure presents forty-two essays on major topics, by leading international experts, cross-referenced to an extensive alphabetical reference section covering all the principal figures, events, and movements in the broad culture of the period. Aimed at students and general readers as well as scholars, the essays constitute an accessible, pluralistic, and modern social history of the epoch; the alphabetical entries can either be used alongside them, for deeper information on specific subjects, or as a free-standing reference tool."--Jacket.
Contents: Revolution / Mark Philp -- War / J.E. Cookson -- Democracy / H.T. Dickinson -- Women / Barbara Caine -- Empire / John Gascoigne -- Slavery / James Walvin -- Policing / David Philips -- Law / David Lemmings -- Utopianism / Gregory Claeys -- Religion / R.K. Webb -- Sensibility / G.F. Barker-Benfield -- Poverty / Sarah Lloyd -- Domesticity / Clara Tuite -- Industrialization / John Stevenson -- Class / Eileen Janes Yeo -- Land / Anne Janowitz -- Education / Ian Britain -- Medicine / Roy Porter -- Consumerism / Roy Porter -- Viewing / C. Suzanne Matheson -- Publishing / John Brewer and Iain McCalman -- Prints / David Bindman -- Popular culture / Iain McCalman and Maureen Perkins -- Theatre / Gillian Russell -- Design / Celina Fox -- Music / Cyril Ehrlich and Simon McVeigh -- Painting / Mark Hallett -- Architecture / Daniel Abramson -- Poetry / Jerome J. McGann -- Prose / Jon Klancher -- Novels / Fiona Robertson -- Enlightenment / Martin Fitzpatrick -- Political economy / Donald Winch -- Natural philosophy (science) / Richard Yeo -- Antiquarianism (popular) / Marilyn Butler -- Mythology / Nigel Leask -- Exploration / Nicholas Thomas -- History / James Chandler -- Psychology / Robert Brown -- Language / Jon Mee -- Literary history / Peter Otto.
Subject headings (LCSH): Great Britain--Civilization--18th century.; Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.; Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.; Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.; Reference works.; Romanticism--Great Britain.