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This book offers new analyzes of canonical texts, contextualizations of Romantic forms in relation to war, nationalism and empire, reassessments of neglected and marginalized writers and explorations of the relationship between form and reader. It showcases a range of new approaches that are informed by deconstruction, theology and new technology.

DOI: 10.1057/9780230206144

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Romantic indirection

Curtis Paul M.

1-22

Romantic invocation

Hopps Gavin

40-59

"Ruinous perfection"

Sandy Mark

60-77

Combinatoric form in nineteenth-century satiric prints

Jones Steven E.

78-94

Romantic form and new historicism

Rawes Alan

95-115

Southey's forms of experiment

Trott Nicola

116-137

Believing in form and forms of belief

Beatty Bernard

138-153

The seductions of form in the poetry of Ann Batten Cristall and Charlotte Smith

Labbe Jacqueline M.

154-170

"Seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely"

Franklin Caroline

171-191

"What constitutes a reader?" Donjuan and the changing reception of romantic form

Stabler Jane; Fischer Martin; Roberts Andrew Michael; Carminati Maria Nella

192-212

Afterword

Wolfson Susan J.

213-224