For the first time, this innovative reference book surveys the Romantic Age through all aspects of British culture, rather than in literary or artistic terms alone. This multi-disciplinary approach treats Romanticism both in aesthetic terms--its meaning for painting, music, design, architecture, and literature--and as a historical epoch of "revolutionary" transformations which ushered in modern democratic and industrialized society.

• Introduction: A Romantic Age Companion


• PART I: MAJOR ESSAYS


• I. Transforming Polity and Nation


• Revolution


• War


• Democracy


• Women


• Empire


• Slavery


• Policing


• Law


• Utopianism


• II. Reordering Social and Private Worlds


• Religion


• Sensibility


• Poverty


• Domesticity


• Industrialization


• Class


• Land


• Education


• Medicine


• III. Culture, Consumption, and the Arts


• Consumerism


• Viewing


• Publishing


• Prints


• Popular Culture


• Theatre


• Design


• Music


• Painting


• Architecture


• Poetry


• Prose


• Novels


• IV. Emerging Knowledges


• Enlightenment


• Political Economy


• Natural Philosophy (Science)


• Antiquarianism (Popular)


• Mythology


• Exploration


• History


• Psychology


• Language


• Literary Theory


• Index to Part I


• PART II: ALPHABETICALLY-ORDERED SHORTER ENTRIES

By Iain McCalman: Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers in London 1795-1840 Clarendon Paperback 1993