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Romanticism and Millenarianism

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  • © 2002

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  1. Tim Fulford

    1. Nottingham Trent University, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Millenarianism and the Study of Romanticism

    • Tim Fulford
    Pages 1-22

  3. Cowper’s Ends

    • Adam Rounce
    Pages 23-36

  4. “To Milton’s Trump”: Coleridge’s Unitarian Sublime and the Miltonic Apocalypse

    • Peter J. Kitson
    Pages 37-52

  5. Romantic Apocalypses

    • John Beer
    Pages 53-69

  6. The Morning (Post) After: Apocalypse and Bathos in Coleridge’s “Fears in Solitude”

    • Michael Simpson
    Pages 71-86

  7. Pantisocracy and the Myth of the Poet

    • Nicholas Roe
    Pages 87-102

  8. Ecological Apocalypse: Privation, Alterity, and Catastrophe in the Work of Arthur Young and Thomas Robert Malthus

    • Gary Harrison
    Pages 103-119

  9. Pagodas and Pregnant Throes: Orientalism, Millenarianism and Robert Southey

    • Tim Fulford
    Pages 121-137

  10. Blake, the Apocalypse and Romantic Women Writers

    • Anne K. Mellor
    Pages 139-152

  11. The Angels of Byron and Moore: Close Encounters of Another Kind

    • Philip W Martin
    Pages 153-165

  12. Robert Hawes and the Millenium Press: A Political Micro-Culture of Late Eighteenth-Century Spitalfields

    • David Worrall
    Pages 167-181

  13. Blake’s Visionary Heads: Lost Drawings and a Lost Book

    • G. E. Bendey Jr.
    Pages 183-205

  14. Word as Image in William Blake

    • Martin Butlin
    Pages 207-217

  15. The William Blake Archive: The Medium When the Millennium Is the Message

    • Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi
    Pages 219-233

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 235-248
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About this book

Expectation of the millennium was widespread in English society at the end of the eighteenth century. The essays in this volume explore how exactly, this expectation shaped, and was shaped by, the literature, art, and politics of the period we now call romantic. An expanded and rehistorized canon of writers and artists is assembled, a group united by a common tendency to use figurations of the millennium to interrogate and transform the worlds in which they lived and moved. Coleridge, Cowper, Blake, and Byron are placed in new contexts created by original research into the artistic and political subcultures of radical London, into the religious sects surrounding the Richard Brothers and Joanna Southcott, and into the cultural and political contexts of orientalism and empire.

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'This is a book of rich pickings, which precludes easy synthesis...Romantic Millenarianism is that rare thing: a collective volume that engages and stimulates at a consistently satisfying intellectual level whilst persuading the reader throughout of the vital importance of its topic.' - Philip Shaw, British Association for Romantic Studies

'Nicholas Roe's essay in this collection is a witty account of the souring of Robert Southey's early millenarian 'Pantisocracy'...Other essays in this excellent collection focus on William blake, Thomas Moore, Byron, the influence of Milton, and most originally in an essay by Adam Rounce, the last depressed years of William Cowper...Although this collection of essays emanates from a 1996 conference in Denmark, it has the cohesion of a well-managed publication.' - Simon Kövesi, European Journal of English Studies

Editors and Affiliations

  • Nottingham Trent University, UK

    Tim Fulford

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TIM FULFORD is Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. He has published many books on Romanticism and, in 1993 edited Coleridge's Visionary Languages with Morton D. Paley.

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