This edited collection reflects on the continuing influence of New Historicism in Romantic Studies. Its eleven essays approach Romantic New Historicism - past, present and future - from a variety of angles in order to assess its vital contribution to our understanding, and revisioning, of the period c.1770-1830.

Damian Walford Davies is Senior Lecturer in Romantic and Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Co-Director of the Centre for Romantic Studies, in the Department of English at Aberystwyth University, Wales.

Preface: "A Poem Should be Equal To: / Not True" Alan Liu Introduction: Reflections on an Orthodoxy Damian Walford Davies 1. The Incommensurable Value of Historicism Tim Milnes 2. The Hair of Milton: Historicism and Literary History Erik Gray 3. "In Embalmèd Darkness": Keats, the Picturesque, and the Limits of Historicization Kelly Grovier 4. Telling Lives to Children: Young versus New Historicism in Little Arthur's History of England Michael Simpson 5. Whose History? My Place or Yours? Republican Assumptions and Romantic Traditions Kenneth R. Johnston 6. Overlooking History: The Case of John Thelwall Judith Thompson 7. Byron's Cain and the "History" of Cradle Songs Damian Walford Davies 8. Romanticism, Feminism, History, Historicism: A Conversation Anne K. Mellor and Susan J. Wolfson 9. Romanticism and the Feminist Uses of History Gary Kelly 10. New Historicism, New Austen, New Romanticism Robert Miles 11. Leigh Hunt and Romantic Biography Nicholas Roe