Sue Chaplin is Senior Lecturer in English at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. She is the Executive Officer of the International Gothic Association, Executive Member of the British Association for Romanticism Studies and commissioning editor of the Romanticism division of the online journal Literature Compass.
Joel Faflak is Associate Professor in English Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. His books include Romantic Psychoanalysis (SUNY Press, 2007) and Sanity, Madness, Transformation: The Psyche of Romanticism (editor, University of Toronto Press, 2005)

A one-stop resource containing introductory material through to practical case studies in reading primary and secondary texts to introducing criticism and new directions in research.

Detailed Table of Contents \ Series Introduction \ Introduction, Susan Chaplin & Joel Faflak \ 1. Historical Context with Timeline, Joel Faflak \ 2. Literary and Cultural Context, Susan Chaplin \ 3. Case Studies in Reading 1: Key Primary Literary Texts, Rhian Williams \ 4. Case Studies in Reading 2: Key Theoretical and Critical Texts,
Susan Chaplin \ 5. Key Critics, Concepts and Topics, Adeline Johns-Putra \ 6. Changes in Critical Responses and Approaches, Joel Faflak \ 7. Changes in the Canon, Simon Kovesi \ 8. Sexuality and Gender, Elizabeth Fay \ 9. Race and Ethnicity, Carol Bolton \ 10. Mapping the Current Critical Landscape, Peter Kitson \ Annotated Bibliography \ Appendix 1: Teaching, Curriculum and Learning (online) \Appendix 2: Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terminology \ Index