Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction: romanticism and the Victorians, Andrew Radford and Mark Sandy; A finer tone: Victorian lives of Mrs Barbauld and Mrs Shelley, Lisa Vargo; 'Wandering between 2 worlds': the Victorian afterlife of Thomas Chatterton, Julie Crane; Dead Keats: Joseph Severn, John Keats, and the haunting of Victorian culture, Andrew Bennett; 'The wind blows cold out of the inner shrine of fear': Rossetti's romantic Keats, Sarah Wootton; Rival cultures: Charles Dickens and the Byronic legacy, Vincent Newey; 'Mr Osborne's secret': Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, and the gender of romanticism, James Najarian; 'Fallen angels': Hardy's Shelleyan critique in the final Wessex novels, Andrew Radford; Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Victorian versions of Byron and Wollstonecraft: romantic genealogies, self-defining memories, and the genesis of Aurora Leigh, Marjorie Stone; Wordsworth, Hopkins, and the intercession of angels, J.R. Watson; 'Echoes of that voice': romantic resonances in Victorian poetic birdsong, Mark Sandy; 'Infinite Passion': variations on a romantic topic in Robert Browning, Emily BrontA≪, Swinburne, Hopkins, Wilde and Dowson, Michael O'Neill; Liberating boyhood, Ve-YinTee; Prometheus rebound: the romantic titan in a post-romantic age, John Holmes; Selected bibliography; Index.