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abbeysconverted into homes, 301–5

Abernethy, John, 545Abolition movement, 363, 638Abrams, Meyer H., 201, 625, 626The Mirror and the Lamp, 430Natural Supernaturalism, 431

The Absentee (Edgeworth), 307, 483absenteeism, 271, 307‘According to the Mighty Working’ (Hardy),

658Ackermann, RudolphRepository of Arts, Literature, Commerce,

Manufactures, Fashions and Politics,341

Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland,478

Addison, Josephin praise of ‘Chevy Chase’, 52

‘Address to the Deil’ (Burns), 166‘Admiral Nelson’s Victory’London Times, 317–18

Adorno, Theodor W.on lyric, 523

The Advancement of Learning (Bacon), 441Adventures of Ulysses (Lamb), 567aesthetic value, 73, 96aesthetics, 1, 52, 432–4, 517and lyric, 523and politics, 610–11and utilitarianism, 94

Age of Lyric, 114Age of Reason (Paine), 642agriculture, 97, 98–9Aiken, John, 634, 635Aikin, John, and Anna Laetitia BarbauldEvenings at Home, 559

Aikin, Lucy, 421Ainsi va Le Monde (Robinson), 364

aisling poetry, 200Alastor (Shelley), 519, 618Aldini, Giovanni, 544Aldridge, Ira

in Othello, 502Alien and Sedition Acts, 221allopatric theory, 516The Alphabet of Goody Two Shoes; By Learning

Which, She Soon Got Rich (Harris),570

America (Blake), 220American colonies

writings against the Crown, 360American First Continental Congress (1774),

360American Indians, 195, 219American Revolution, 199, 209, 219, 220, 315,

357–9, 359–60, 362influence on the French Revolution, 367–8,

371Americas, the, 218Analysis of Beauty (Hogarth), 259Analytic Review, 152Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste

(Knight), 258Analytical Review, 365‘The Ancient Ballad of Chevy Chase’, 53Ancient English Metrical Romances (Ritson),

53Anglican Ascendancy, 199, 304, 306–7

homes of, 307and Irish culture, 307

animal stories, 559animism, 269Anna St Ives (Holcroft), 463Annals of the Parish (Galt), 309Annals of Philosophy, 530anonymous novels, 388Ansichten der Natur (Humboldt), 549

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anthropology, 276–7, 515and biology, 516and collections, 525and natural language, 430–1

‘Anticipation: October 1803’ (Wordsworth),321

anti-feminist sentiment, 56Anti-Jacobin Review, 543The Antiquarian Repertory: a Miscellany,

intended to preserve and illustrateseveral valuable Remains of Old Times.Adorned with elegant sculptures(Grose), 48

antiquarianism, 45–52, 159, 484caricature and satire of, 48and collaboration, 47and collections, 46–8, 49–52, 50and ‘County Histories’, 47and Enlightenment, 50and forgery, 60–1and the fragment, 61and interpretation, 50, 52as national history, 47and politics, 45–7, 47, 49, 51and Unionism, 47

apocalypse, 338, 448–9, 624, 626Appeal to the Men of Great Britain (Hays),

119archaeologists, 51Arendt, Hannah, 6Ariosto, LudovicoOrlando Furioso, 235–6

aristocracy, 205feminisation of, 605and the Oriental, 605–6, 609and rioting in London, 149

Arminianism, 633Arnold, Matthew, 321, 583, 629Culture and Anarchy, 8Poems of Wordsworth, 622

Arnold, Thomas, 649art, 353, 582and loss, 238and nature, 258and the picturesque, 258and reality, 610symbolic, 517

Ascendancy homes, 307and Oriental decorative motifs, 307

Assembly of Notables, 358Association for the Preservation of Liberty

and Property against Republicansand Levellers, 138

Astronomy and General Physics (Whewell), 540atmospheric electricity, 536‘Au Lecteur’ (Baudelaire), 663Auerbach, Nina, 319Austen, Jane, 3, 469, 471–2and the Church of England, 627–8and domestic space, 305on landscape connoisseurs, 260Mansfield Park, 271–2, 305Northanger Abbey, 304–5and the novel of manners, 461, 521Persuasion, 318, 328Pride and Prejudice, 306, 313, 319Sense and Sensibility, 460

Autobiography (Place), 335‘Autumn’ (Keats), 443

Babbage, Charles, 393Bacon, FrancisThe Advancement of Learning, 441Novum Organum With Other Parts of The

Great Instauration, 105–7Badcock, Samuel, 41Baillie, Joanna, 498Ethwald, 324and a ‘school of affectation’, 590A Series of Plays on the Passions, 500‘A Winter Day’, 297

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 518ballads, 48, 49, 52–6, 57, 67anthologies of, 53Enlightenment debate on, 58German, 214multiple ‘versions’ of, 57national, 55and nostalgia, 58rhythms of, 55Scottish, 56semantic approach to, 57syntactic approach to, 57

Ballantyne’s Novelists’ Library (Scott), 475Bank of England, 83Baptists, 633Barbauld, Anna Laetitia, 15, 16, 124, 363, 364,

421, 475, 555, 568, 634The British Novelists; with an Essay, Prefaces

Biographical and Critical, 475and domestic employments, 310Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, 15, 218, 311,

422, 447–8Lessons for Children from Three to Four Years

Old, 571‘Washing Day’, 310

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see also Aikin, John, and Anna LaetitiaBarbauld

Barbauld, Rochemont, 635‘The Bard’ (Gray), 64Bardic Nationalism, 164bards, 63–5Barry, James, 184Bartholomew’s Fair (1817), 336Bartman, Sarah (Hottentot Venus), 349‘The Bastille’ (Williams), 359Bastille, the, 358, 372fall of celebrated, 362imagery of, 371storming of, 367–8

Batten, Charles, 273Battle of the Nile (1798), 317–18Baudelaire, Charles‘Au Lecteur’, 663and the ‘hypocrite reader’, 654–5

Baumgarten, Alexander, 432Beattie, James, 43The Minstrel, 65

Beddoes, Thomas, 542Behn, Aphra, 219Belcher, WilliamIntellectual electricity, novum organum of

vision, and grand mystic secret, 112Belfast Harp Festival (1792), 184Bell, Andrewand the monitorial system of education,

596Bell, John, 382The Poets of Great Britain, 382

Beloe, William, 153‘Belvoir Castle’ (Crabbe), 302Benbow, William, 387Bentham, Jeremy, 74, 82, 89, 581–2, 583, 593and the monitorial system of education,

596Panopticon writings, 596and sentence meaning, 597Theory of Fictions, 597and transcendental systems, 599and utilitarianism, 598

Beppo: A Venetian Story (Byron), 236Berkeley, Bishop George, 109Berman, Antoine, 512Berquin, ArnauldLooking Glass for the Mind, 559

Betty, William Henry West (child actor), 496Betty Brown; or, the St Giles’s Orange Girl

(More), 136Bewell, Alan, 282

bibliomania, 338Bills of Mortality, 131Biographia Literaria (Coleridge), 427, 439,

444–6biographies, 10–11, 35, 589–93biological determinism, 77biological evolution, 540–2biology

and anthropology, 516and genre, 513–18, 525and literature, 525

Blackwood, William, 179Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 162, 174, 175,

177, 348, 438, 445–7on novels, 476‘Z’ in, 417, 419

Blair, Hugh, 30, 33, 164, 171‘Critical Dissertation on the Poems of

Ossian’, 58defence of Ossian, 65, 164Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 54on private life, 32and rhetorical devices of non-fiction, 31

Blake, William, 105, 158, 222, 263, 269, 391,403, 449, 640–2, 656

America, 220and atheism, 420and counties, 250and the countryside, 249–51, 260and imagination, 641innocence and experience, 445Jerusalem, 103, 255, 621, 641The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 118, 268, 642Milton, 331, 332on Paine’s The Rights of Man, 370Songs of Innocence and Experience, 554, 639vision of Britain, 251on war heroes, 332

Bloom, Harold, 202, 437, 625Blumenbach, J. F., 515–16

De generis varietati humani nativa, 515Boatswain (Byron’s dog), 652–3Boccaccio, Giovanni, 234Bonaparte, Napoleon, 82, 319, 320The Book of the Church (Southey), 630book trade

changes to, 377–81distribution networks, 378expansion of, 381–5increase in production, 36in London, 162retailing and wholesaling, 384see also publishing

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booksellers, 151promotions, 563sociability of, 384–5

Boulton, Matthew, 548Bradley, F. H., 7Brand, John, 153–4Brewer, John, 163, 312Brisman, Leslie, 645Britain, 2051688 Settlement, 360attitude to foreigners, 205and empire, 272and the French Revolution, 226and Greece, 230imaginary geography of, 226and Italy, 230national poets of, 205and travel writing, 273–6see also England; Ireland; Scotland

British Critic, 152–4, 155, 158, 422–3The British Novelists; with an Essay, Prefaces

Biographical and Critical (Barbauld),475

The British Theatre (Inchbald), 498Britishness, 185Britton, John, 215Bronze Age, 253Brooke, HenryThe Fool of Quality, 30

‘The Brothers’ (Wordsworth), 265–8Brothers, Richard, 640Brougham, HenryPractical Observations upon the Education of

the People, 531and public education initiatives, 531

Brown, Capability, 258Brown, ThomasLectures on the Philosophy of the Human

Mind, 51Brownie of Bodsbeck (Hogg), 488Bruce, JamesTravels to Discover the Source of the Nile,

286–9Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton, 390Burdett, Sir Francis, 83Burgess, Miranda, 304–5Burke, Edmund, 2, 208, 276, 361, 547, 583attack on French revolution, 86attack on Oriental style, 611the beautiful and the sublime, 259concept of sublimity, 71critiqued by Wollstonecraft and

Paine, 366

debate with Paine, 370on Hastings, 272on ‘landed interests’, 255, 257A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our

Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 94,186–8, 533

and political representation, 257on Price, 220Reflections on the Revolution in France, 208,

358, 609, 610, 633on Rousseau, 210

Burney, Edwardillustrations, 458

Burney, FannyCamilla: or, A Picture of Youth, 137

Burney, FrancesCecilia, 456Evelina, 453, 454The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties, 324

Burns, Robert, 159, 164‘Address to the Deil’, 166‘The Cotter’s Saturday Night’, 297‘Epistle to John Lapraik’, 165and lost origins, 166Poems, Chiefly Written in the Scottish Dialect,

165Tam O’Shanter, 48‘The Vision’, 166

Bush, JohnHibernia Curiosa, 187

Butler, Marilyn, 2, 211, 643Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries, 432

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 211, 301, 348,404–5, 419–20, 663

Beppo: A Venetian Story, 236Cain, 519and celebrity, 414–17Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 225, 276, 321,

415–16, 658The Corsair, 405, 416and Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 229on Dante, 233and despair, 658devotion to animals, 652–3Don Juan, 104, 123, 237–8, 276, 326, 388, 417,

424, 440Don Juan, English cantos, 237and the East, 619The Giaour, 619–20and Greece, 230, 619on Greek men, 232on Hemans, 659and Italy, 226, 229–30

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Marino Faliero, 242–3and Mediterranean travel, 227memoirs, 385and modernity, 619neglect of his child, 229on the new poets, 424–5‘Ode on Venice’, 239Prometheus, 648–9‘The Prophecy of Dante’, 233rhetorical poetry of, 656satanic self-image, 644and Shelley, 230translation of Pulci, 236on Venice, 238see also Coetzee, J. M., Disgrace

Byronic hero, the, 327

Cain (Byron), 519Caledonian Mercury, 37Calvinism, 633Cambridge History of English Literature, 5, 9–11contributors to, 16structure of chapters, 14volumes of, 1

Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth (Burney), 137Campbell, ThomasGertrude of Wyoming, 221–2

Canning, George, 436Cannon, George, 387capitalism, 97, 99, 254–5Capon, William, 497captivity narratives, 273Carlile, Richard, 387, 400, 531, 540, 545, 642Carlyle, Thomas, 649and the French Revolution, 9The French Revolution, 180On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in

History, 550Past and Present, 217Sartor Resartus, 162, 180‘Signs of the Times’, 550on Voltaire, 218

Caroline of Brunswick (wife of George IV),400

Carter, Thomas, 398Cartwright, Major John, 83‘Casabianca’ (Hemans), 324Cassirer, Ernst, 103, 106The Castle of Otranto (Walpole), 61, 454, 466Castle Rackrent (Edgeworth), 185, 473–5castles, 301–5Catholicism, 242Cecilia (Burney), 456

celebrity, 414–17, 550Celticism, 188Celts, 188

and domestic space, 303and the empire, 195and the Enlightenment, 188, 194and Gothic domesticity, 303melancholia, 196, 197and nostalgia, 194and the sublime, 186and violence, 194

The Cenci (Shelley), 242censorship, 138

in the theatre, 491, 492–3census of 1801, 131, 341Central Park, New York, 261, 265Chambers, Robert

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation,541–2

Chambers’s Journal, 393Chandler, James, 208, 277chapbooks, 273, 553, 556–7, 558, 568–9Charing Cross, 137, 143–8‘Charles Lamb’ (Hazlitt), 589Chatterton, Thomas

and inauthenticity, 61–3‘The Ryse of Peyncteynge yn Englade,

wroten bie T. Rowlie’, 60The Chemist, 531chemistry, 534Cheyne, George, 26Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron), 225, 276,

321, 415–16, 658children’s books, 382children’s literature, 342, 553–5, 569

and agents of literacy, 573circulation novels, 559conflicts within, 560in dialogue form, 560girls’ stories, 560and juvenile libraries, 561–9, 576–7mirroring adult novels, 559old classics banished, 568promoting children’s book shops, 576and the psychological, 560readers of, 555and religion, 639travel writing, 275

chivalry, 65–7, 68Church, John, 347Church of England, 627–32

Austen and, 627–8campaigning role of, 628–9

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Church of England (cont.)Coleridge and, 630–1Evangelicalism and, 637as a ‘national church’, 631patronage and influence of, 627

citizenship, 606City Juvenile Library, 566–8list of publications, 566self-advertisement of, 567

Clan-Albin: A National Tale (Johnstone), 482Clare, John, 340on Enclosure, 254‘I Am’, 616Northampton Asylum, 371and the self, 615–16‘The Wish’, 296, 312

Clarissa (Richardson), 456Clark, Steveon travel writing, 275

class, 419, 582and conflict, 88, 97in the countryside, 256productive, 97see also working class

A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue(Grose), 48

Classical Tour through Italy (Eustace), 228clergymen, 152–4‘Clerisy’, 632climatic determinism, 278closet theatre, 497, 499–500, 526, 586and domestic space, 499spaces of, 499–500

clubs, 348, 352of St James’s Street, 140

Coates, Robertcaricatures of, 338

Cobbett, William, 83, 86, 263, 338, 401–2Cockburn, Henry, 174Cockney poets, 104, 122, 234–5, 348, 405, 417,

646Cockspur Street, 143Coelebs in Search of a Wife (More), 480Coetzee, J.M., Disgrace, 650Byronic hero in, 654Byronic opera in, 653–4Byronic themes in, 650, 651, 651–3, 652, 656reviewers of, 651and Romanticism, 650, 655, 657

Colborn, Henry, 383Coleman, DeirdreRomantic Colonization and British Anti-

Slavery, 274

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 71, 76, 86–7, 211,403, 411, 517, 553, 581–2, 592

Biographia Literaria, 427, 439, 444–6and the Church of England, 630–1and a ‘Clerisy’, 632and commercialization, 631and Dante, 232demand for ‘philosophical poem’ by

Wordsworth, 122‘Fears in Solitude, Written in April 1798,

During the Alarm of an Invasion’,329–31

The Friend, 328on genius, 444and the Germans, 222in Italy, 228‘Kubla Khan’, 92labour theory of value, 90–2Lay Sermons, 98, 585, 596, 631and Mediterranean travel, 227On the Constitution of Church and State,

631and philosophy, 439, 442, 446on poetic autonomy, 429, 444and publications on religion, 631–2and radicalism, 630–2, 633The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, 413‘spectators and non-combatants’, 322‘Time Real and Imaginary’, 524and the United States of America, 220and vital processes, 544and the ‘willing suspension of disbelief’,

662Collins, Wilkie, 397Colquhoun, Patrick, 131‘The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan’

(painting by Delacroix), 619Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and

her Dog (Martin), 554commerce, 98–9, 175–7Common Sense (Paine), 366, 369Company Parish of Clerks, 131‘The Complaint of the Forsaken Indian

Woman’ (Wordsworth), 283–6, 291compositors, 394Conant, Martha, 607Condillac, Abbe de, 109‘condition of England’ debate, 2, 217Confessions of an English Opium Eater

(De Quincey), 300Confessions (Rousseau), 117conjectural history, 23, 169–70, 171, 277, 280, 484and Galt, 179

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and Scott, 173see also stadial theory

Conjectures on Original Composition (Young),591

Connell, Philip, 80conservatism, 80Consolations in Travel (Davy), 548Constable, Archibald, 386Constable, John, 252Constitutional Association for Opposing the

Progress of Disloyal and SeditiousPrinciples, 400

consumerism, 458–9and conspicuous consumption, 339and novels, 455–6rise of, 294

Continuation of Early Lessons (Edgeworth), 555Cooper, James Fenimore, 219copyright, 36, 38, 58, 63, 350, 379–81, 382,

386–9, 454see also piracy

Corinne, or Italy (de Stael), 216, 227The CoronationDrury Lane theatre, 505

Corporation Act (1661), 627, 635, 628Corresponding Societies, 369The Corsair (Byron), 405, 416Cottagers of Glenburnie (Hamilton), 481cottages, 295–301, 297, 300cottage ornee, 300–1culture and nature, 297and the natural world, 296and politics, 297and sociability, 296–7and travellers, 297and unemployment, 298

‘The Cotter’s Saturday Night’ (Burns), 297country, 247as nation, 248see also countryside, the

The Country and the City (Williams), 249, 255country house

see stately homescountryside, the, 81, 246, 249, 256, 262as an archive, 249and the city, 246, 248, 249and class, 256and ‘country Whigs’, 259difference of, 249feminized, 247as a foreign country, 264and history, 262, 266labourers in, 263

as landscape, 247and literature, 246–9‘museification’ of, 256and nature, 260, 270and the past, 265site of resistance, 247transformations to, 251, 253, 265unrest in, 251

The Courier, 323courtship novels, 458, 560Covent Garden, 139, 351, 492, 494, 497

Old Price (OP) Riots, 351, 505renovations to, 505

Cowper, WilliamThe Task, 314–16

copyright, 58Crabbe, George

‘Belvoir Castle’, 302‘The Poor and Their Dwellings’, 296on tenements, 298The Village, 254

Craig, William, 30Crane, R. S.

The Principles of Literary History, 10Creech, William, 386‘creolization’, 278crimping houses, 146–8

attacks on, 147–8protests against, 147

‘Critical Dissertation on the Poems ofOssian’ (Blair), 58

Critical Review, 40, 41on The Man of Feeling, 457

criticism, 4, 30, 427–8, 474, 590, 593–4, 595deconstructive, 8and genre, 518in periodicals, 437and personal evaluation, 593and poetic autonomy, 435–42, 443of readers, 42–4and self-consciousness, 427and self-regulation, 438as a supplement to poetry, 599

Critique of Judgement (Kant), 432–3, 533Croker, John Wilson

and Hunt, 447crowds, 453–5, 459Culloden, battle of, 194‘cult of sexuality’, 643cultural assimilation, 164cultural geography, 13cultural production, 611cultural radicalism, 362

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cultural reform, 362culture, 470, 480, 582Culture and Anarchy (Arnold), 8Culture and Society (Williams), 582Cumberland, Richard, 43

daily newspapers, 351, 392Dame Partlet’s Farm (Harris Books), 570Dangerous Connections (Laclos), 41Dante, Alighieri, 232–4Divina Commedia, 233, 600

‘The Darkling Thrush’ (Hardy), 7Darton, William, 563Darton’s Juvenile Library, 563, 576Darwin, Erasmus, 548Davenant, William, 492Davis, Thomas, 200Davy, Humphry, 529, 531, 534, 536, 542–3,

547–9Consolations in Travel, 548Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, 530‘Essay to Prove the Thinking Powers

Depend on the Organization of theBody’, 543

and galvanic experiments, 548lectures on geology, 539Salmonia, 548and self-presentation, 547

Day, ThomasSandford and Merton, 560

De generis varietati humani nativa(Blumenbach), 515

De L’Allemagne (de Stael), 227de Laplace, Pierre SimonExposition du system du monde, 540

de Loutherbourg, Philippe Jacques, 497moving stage, 503

de Man, Paul, 433De Quincey, Thomas, 95–7, 218, 586, 587, 592Confessions, 300Dialogues of Three Templars on Political

Economy Chiefly in Relation to thePrinciples of Mr. Ricardo, 95

and Dove Cottage, 300and emotional reaction, 585–7, 593‘The English Mail Coach’, 325and Lamb, 590‘literature of power’, 274–5, 288The Logic of Political Economy, 97, 95‘On Murder Considered as One of the

Fine Arts’, 587–9‘On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth’,

585, 587–9

Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets,589–93

and travel writing, 274, 288and Wordsworth, 589

de Stael, GermaineCorinne, or Italy, 216, 227De L’Allemagne, 227On Germany, 216–17On Literature, 216

death, 659deconstruction, 433–5defamiliarization, 439A Defence of Poetry (Shelley), 232, 403, 423–5,

431, 439, 599Defoe, Daniel, 453, 462Deism, 642Delacroix, Eugene‘The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan’,

619Della Cruscans, 231Deluc, Jean AndreElementary Treatise on Geology, 538

Deserted Village (Goldsmith), 254desire, 76, 461Desmond (Smith), 452–4determinism, 77biological, 77climatic, 278

Dialogues of Three Templars on PoliticalEconomy Chiefly in Relation to thePrinciples of Mr. Ricardo (DeQuincey), 95

Dickens, CharlesPickwick Papers, 393

A Dictionary of the English Language (Johnson),65, 106

didacticism, 598Discourse on the Love of our Country (Price),

220, 633Discourses (Rousseau), 430Disgrace (Coetzee), 650Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit

(Priestley), 542Dissentrational, 633–5, 635, 645

Dissenters, 436, 628, 633–5academies, 634ministers, 634women writers connected to, 635

Divina Commedia (Dante), 233, 600division of labour, 90, 111‘Domestic Affections’ (Hemans), 312domestic labour, 296, 310–11

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handloom weaving, 299and political economy, 310

domestic novels, 480–3domestic space, 293and the Celtic Fringe, 303and closet theatre, 499of literary life, 294privatization of, 311

domesticity, 210, 294, 488and food, 571forms of, 293gendered, 310globalized, 291and warfare, 500

Don Juan (Byron), 104, 123, 237–8, 276, 326,388, 417, 424, 440

Donaldson, Alexander, 380–1Douglas, Aileen, 305Dove Cottage, 295, 300Downing Street, 148Dr Graham’s Temple of Hymen, 503drama

see theatreDramas for Children (Godwins), 567dramas of state, 503–6dreams, 654Drury Lane theatre, 139, 492, 494–7auditorium, 494

Dryden, John, 403du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 358Dublincity of shadows, 189piracy in, 386publishing in, 378, 386

Dugdale, William, 387Dunlop, John, 475‘Dying Indian’ poems, 284

Early Lessons (Edgeworth), 560East India Company, 617Eastlake, Lady Elizabeth, 291Eaton, Daniel Isaacedition of Age of Reason, 642

Ecclesiastical Sketches (Wordsworth), 630Edgeworth, Maria, 4, 306The Absentee, 307, 483Castle Rackrent, 185, 473–5Continuation of Early Lessons, 555Early Lessons, 560Ennui, 483memoirs, 463Ormond, 189

Edinburgh, 174

booksellers, 410‘The Modern Athens’, 174publishing in, 161, 175, 378, 380, 386

Edinburgh Review, 4, 161, 175, 436, 437, 474–5,538

and Jeffrey, 175–7, 280, 407, 425on novels, 124–5, 476scientific coverage, 530

Egan, PierceLife in London, 342

Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (Barbauld), 15,218, 311, 422, 447–8

Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue, 312electricity

atmospheric, 536therapeutic application of, 543

electrochemistry, 539Elementary Treatise on Geology (Deluc), 538Elements of Agricultural Chemistry (Davy), 530Elements of Criticism (Kames), 31, 288Elgin Marbles, 238Elizabeth de Bruce (Johnstone), 179Elliotson, John, 545Elliott, Mary Belson

Goody Two Shoes, Exemplifying the goodconsequences of early attention tolearning and virtue, 570

Peggy and her Mammy, 575Precept and Example; or, Midsummer

Holidays, 573, 576–7Ellison, Robert, 505embryology, 525

and genre, 526of texts, 525

The Emigrants (Imlay), 220‘The Emigrants’ (Charlotte Smith), 321Emmet, Robert, 197empire, 207, 611

and the East, 207, 603Nelson’s life and, 327and North America, 16

enclosure, 253–4Enfield, William, 30, 43Engels, Friedrich, 416England

and Englishness, 204, 205, 209, 213,222–3

interior spaces of, 331transformation of, 256at war, 316war with France, 138, 226see also London

‘England’s Dead’ (Hemans), 334

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English literatureand Brewer, 163definition of, 7histories of, 435novels, 475study of, 10

‘The English Mail Coach’ (De Quincey),325

English Revolution, 361English Short Title Catalogue, 107Enlightenment, 101, 106, 113–14, 159–62, 199,

662and antiquarianism, 50and the Celtic periphery, 188, 194debate on ballads, 58historiography, 49and history, 102intellectuals, 161and Ireland, 183–4and modernity, 102, 113–14, 160and Ossian, 169and Romanticism, 12, 114–16, 119, 125,

621the second Enlightenment, 114–16and systems, 102–4, 104, 108–14technology of, 102

Ennui (Edgeworth), 483Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

(Hume), 117Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its

Influence on Morals and Happiness(Godwin), 75–7

The Entail (Galt), 179epic, 508–11epigenesis, 514–16‘Epistle to John Lapraik’ (Burns), 165epistolary novels, 513, 516, 520, 559, 560‘Essay, Supplementary to the Preface’

(Wordsworth), 413Essay on Antiquities (Kames), 46An Essay on Criticism (Pope), 445–6An Essay on Population (Malthus), 72, 74–82, 81An Essay on Taste (Gerard), 25Essay on the Diseases incident to literary persons

(Tissot), 27Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of

the British Empire (Pasley), 329Essay on the Picturesque (Price), 258Essay on the Writing and Genius of Pope

(Warton), 33‘Essay to Prove the Thinking Powers

Depend on the Organization of theBody’ (Davy), 543

essays, 106–8, 112, 389, 584–5development of, 522

Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects(Hume), 110

Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders ofScotland (Grant), 482

‘Essays upon Epitaphs’ (Wordsworth), 583ethnography, 47, 281, 292Ethwald (Baillie), 324eudemonism, 82Eustace, J. C.Classical Tour through Italy, 228

Evangelical activism, 638critics of, 639and women activists, 638

Evangelical revival, 635–9and public culture, 638and women, 637

Evelina (Burney), 453, 454Evening Walk (Wordsworth), 265Evenings at Home (Aikin and Barbauld), 559The Examiner, 346, 405, 417–19exchange value, 88The Excursion (Wordsworth), 413, 436, 439,

622–4, 629, 644exhibitions, 349exotic tales, 275exoticism, 603and Oriental texts, 607and poetry, 281

exploration, 549‘exploration establishment’, 273, 287, 275utilitarian claims of, 288

Exposition du system du monde (de Laplace),540

fables, 288Fables in Verse (Newbery Books), 562The Fairing: or, a Golden Toy; for Children of all

sizes and denominations (NewberyBooks), 557

The Fall of Hyperion (Keats), 233, 508, 525fame, 591family, 482–3, 483‘Farewell for Two Years to England’

(Williams), 374fashion, 338–9, 458–9, 461news, 458

fashionable society, 451‘Fears in Solitude, Written in April 1798,

During the Alarm of an Invasion’(Coleridge), 329–31

‘Female Poetry’, 405, 420–3, 425

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758






The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures ofArabella (Lennox), 65

feminism, 215and criticism, 8

Fenwick, ElizaLessons for Children or, Rudiments of Good

Manners, Morals, and Humility, 559Life of Carlo, 565Mary and her Cat. In Words not exceeding

Two Syllables, 575Secrecy; of The Ruin on the Rock, 521Visits to the Juvenile Library; or, Knowledge

Proved to be the Source of Happiness,564

Ferguson, Adam, 278History of Civil Society, 279on North American Indians, 284

Ferriar, Dr. John, 544Ferrier, Susan, 179Marriage, 308, 482

Ferris, Ina, 190Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 217fiction, 274, 473–4, 477and historiography, 477and history, 6, 33–4, 171–4popular, 383prose, 519see also novels

Fierobe, Claude, 307Fingal (Macpherson), 58Five-Book Prelude (Wordsworth), 275‘The Flower of the Desert’ (Hemans), 286,

290food, 74, 570–1and domestic life, 571and eating disorders, 572

The Fool of Quality (Brooke), 30foreigners, 205forgery, 58, 60–1, 160, 167, 172–3‘Forget not the Field’ (Moore), 197formalism, 432–3Forster, Georg, 549Forster, John ReinholdObservations made during a Voyage round the

World, 534Forsyth, JosephRemarks on Antiquities, 228

fossils, 270Foucault, Michel, 461The Order of Things, 100

The Four Ages of Poetry (Peacock), 281, 423, 599Fourdrinier, Henry, 392Fourdrinier, Seally, 392

Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in theHighlands of Scotland (Macpherson),58–60

France, 206–8Charter of Rights proposed, 368and Enlightenment, 208and literary theory, 209national character of, 208, 210, 212radicals influenced by American

constitutionalism, 360and Romanticism, 207see also French Revolution

Frankenstein (Shelley), 4, 298, 469, 536, 539,544, 643

Franklin, Benjamin, 536Fraser’s Magazine, 9‘free-and-easies’, 336French Revolution, 2, 175, 199, 206, 209, 223,

359, 362, 371–6and Carlyle, Thomas, 9clubs, 369and English radical writers, 364as a model for reform, 362and Scotland, 161storming of the Bastille, 367–8

The French Revolution (Carlyle), 180Freud, Sigmund, 51, 587The Friend (Coleridge), 328Frye, Northrop

and sentimentalism, 22‘futurity’, 15

Gaelic culture, 184, 188, 192Gaelic economy, 191Galt, John, 179

Annals of the Parish, 309and conjectural history, 179The Entail, 179essays, 179Ringan Gilhaize, 179

Galvani, Luigi, 543Galway, 191Gaston de Blondeville, or The court of Henry III.

Keeping Festival in Ardenne: A Romance(Radcliffe), 68

gender, 123, 294, 310, 522and family politics, 241and genre, 514ridicule of, 419

generationand Romanticism, 122–3

generic mutation, 515Genet, Jean, 264–5

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genius, 546, 550–1, 591genius loci, 268–70Genlis, Stephanie-Felicite deTales of the Castle, 41

genres, 33, 108, 192, 507–11, 511–18, 518–21,522–5, 525–6

and biology, 513–18changes to, 14and criticism, 518deformalization of, 508diversification of, 507of Enlightenment, 106and gender, 514hierarchy of, 507and hybridity, 508, 518and poetics of sympathy, 412of poetry, 429system as, 110–11, 124–5theory of, 515and travel, 512–13

Geological Essays (Kirwan), 538geological sublime, 534and Christian theology, 537–9

geology, 537–42, 539‘Neptunist’, 537‘Vulcanist’, 538

George IV, 400coronation of, 505divorce proceedings of, 506

Gerard, AlexanderAn Essay on Taste, 25

German women, 214Germany, 206–8, 207, 223intellectuals, 226-7and literature, 214national character of, 212–18and a national literary language, 212and nationhood, 226philosophy, 212, 215–18secret society of, 206theatre in, 206, 214

Gertrude of Wyoming (Campbell),221–2

Gerusalemme Liberata (Tasso), 236The Giaour (Byron), 619–20Gillray, Jamesdepictions of war, 326Promis’d Horrors of the French Invasion, - or -

Forcible Reason for negotiating aRegicide Peace, 140–2

Gilpin, William, 258, 533Girondins, 366, 374Glenarvon (Lamb), 521

Glorious Revolution, 358, 361gods and geniuses, 268–70Godwin, William, 74, 118, 154–5, 157, 477biography of Wollstonecraft, 464Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its

Influence on Morals and Happiness, 75–7on imagination, 157and Lamb, 567Lives of Edward and John Phillips, Nephews of

Milton, 513in London, 155–6Mandeville, 521Pursuits of Literature, 157St Leon, 462, 470, 478, 513and street life in London, 156–7on ‘the man of talent’, 156–7Things As They Are; or, The Adventures of

Caleb Williams, 105, 108, 118, 120, 129,454, 461, 463, 464, 478

Godwin, William, and Mary Jane Godwin,566

as children’s publishers, 555see also City Juvenile Library

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 547on Don Juan, 440on genre, 509Torquato Tasso, 236

Goldsmith, Oliver, 34Deserted Village, 254

Goody Two Shoes, Exemplifying the goodconsequences of early attention tolearning and virtue (Elliott), 570

Gordimer, Nadinecriticism of Coetzee, 650

Gordon Riots (1780), 138, 149Gothic novels, 293, 382, 465–9, 469–71, 526characters in, 468containing poetry, 467–8epigraphs in, 468provenance of ‘romances’, 468

Gothic revival, 254, 301–5Grand Tour, 224, 512Grant, AnneEssays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders

of Scotland, 482‘Graves of a Household’ (Hemans), 290Gray, Thomas‘The Bard’, 64

Greece, 617–19and Britain, 230, 245effeminacy of men, 232identification with, 238and nationhood, 245

Index

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Green, J. H., 517, 525Griffith, RalphMonthly Review, 41

Grimaldi, Joseph, 496Grose, FrancisThe Antiquarian Repertory: a Miscellany,

intended to preserve and illustrateseveral valuable Remains of Old Times.Adorned with elegant sculptures, 48

A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue,48

Guiccioli, Teresa, Countessand Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 229in Coetzee’s Disgrace, 651

Guillory, John, 96–100

Habermas, Jurgen, 6, 396and public opinion, 584

Haitian Revolution, 363Hamilton, ElizabethCottagers of Glenburnie, 481Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, 513

Hardy, Thomas, 142–3‘According to the Mighty Working’, 658‘The Darkling Thrush’, 7

Harris, John, 554A Visit to the Bazaar, 562

Harris Booksand self-advertisement, 562–3

Harrison, James, 455Novelists Magazine (New Novelists

Magazine), 38Harry’s Holidays: or the Doings of One, Who

Had Nothing to Do (Taylor), 555Hartman, Geoffrey, 269, 625Harvey, William, 514–15Hasted, EdwardHistory and Topographical Survey of the

county of Kent, 252Hastings, Warren, 271, 278Hastings Trial, 504

Hayes, Julie, 113The Haymarket, 492Hays, MaryAppeal to the Men of Great Britain, 119Memoirs of Emma Courtney, 464–5, 520Victim of Prejudice, 519

Hazlitt, William, 69, 405, 592, 595and Baillie, 590‘Charles Lamb’, 589and Coleridge, 589on Godwin, 477on Kean, 350

Life of Napoleon, 212‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’, 634‘On Court-Influence’, 645–6‘On My First Acquaintance with Poets’,

589–93‘The Periodical Press’, 437–8and personal reaction, 593on poetry, 442and satire, 410The Spirit of the Age, 594–8as a theatre reviewer, 349–50on Wordsworth, 413

Hearne, SamuelJourney from Hudson’s Bay to the Northern

Ocean, 283–5Hegel, G. W. F., 517, 525, 526

on genre, 509Helgerson, Richard, 204Hellas (Shelley), 238, 618Hellenism, 225, 618Hellins, John, 153Hemans, Felicia, 243, 290, 420, 422, 425, 448,

660‘Casabianca’, 324on Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 658–62, 658and Christian redemption, 658–61‘Domestic Affections’, 312‘England’s Dead’, 334‘The Flower of the Desert’, 286, 290‘Graves of a Household’, 290‘The Homes of England’, 290, 311on literature, 661Modern Greece, 238poetry of, 291Records of Women: With Other Poems, 244Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy, 238The Sceptic, 658–62self-exposure, 661‘The Sicilian Captive’, 244‘The Traveller at the Source of the Nile’,

286, 289The Vespers of Palermo, 243–4

Herbert, Christopher, 470Herd, David, 56

manuscripts, 56Herder, J. G.

theory of genre, 515heroic women, 324Hibernia Curiosa (Bush), 187Histoires des Republiques Italiennes (Sismondi),

241An Historical and Moral View of the French

Revolution (Wollstonecraft), 373

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historical novels, 69, 477, 484–7alternative models of, 487–9and Scott, 124, 172–4, 332, 520and travel, 513

Histories of More Children than One; OrGoodness Better than Beauty (Kilner),573

historyand ‘antiquity’, 49–52and the countryside, 262, 266and Enlightenment, 102and fable, 288and fiction, 6, 33–4, 171–4literary, 6, 10, 11, 11–12writing of, 477see also conjectural history

History and Topographical Survey of the Countyof Kent (Hasted), 252

History of Civil Society (Ferguson), 279The History of English Poetry (Warton), 52, 213History of Great Britain (Hume), 50The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes

(Newbery Books), 557The History of Miss Temple (Rogers), 40History of the Druids (Toland), 188hoaxes, 338Hodges, Williamdrawings and paintings of, 534

Hodgskin, Thomas, 531Hogarth, WilliamAnalysis of Beauty, 259

Hogg, James, 166, 179Brownie of Bodsbeck, 488known as ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’, 167Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner,

488oral and folk idioms, 488–9The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a

Justified Sinner, 180storytelling, 179The Three Perils of Man: War, Women and

Witchcraft, 180The Three Perils of Woman: Love, Leasing

and Jealousy, 180, 488Hogle, Jerrold, 526Holcroft, ThomasAnna St Ives, 463A Tale of Mystery, 504

Hollier, Denis, 11‘Home at Grasmere’ (Wordsworth), 295homes, 293, 298, 353abbeys converted into, 301–5of England, 293–4

Gothic, 293interior decoration, 295interiors of, 339, 353of Ireland, 306private domestic domain, 294and tea-drinking, 309tenements, 298use of, 293in Wordsworth’s poetry, 295–6see also Ascendancy homes; cottages; Irish

stately homes; stately homes‘The Homes of England’ (Hemans), 290, 311Hook, Theodoreand the ‘Berners Street Hoax’, 338

Hope, ThomasHousehold Furniture, 339

Hoskins, W. G.The Making of the English Landscape, 253,

256Household Furniture (Hope), 339Houses of Parliament, 137House of Commons members, 137House of Lords members, 137

Howard, Luke, 535Hulme, T. E., 621and Enlightenment, 622

human psychology, 581humanism, 622Humboldt, Alexander von, 535, 549Ansichten der Natur, 549Personal Narrative of Travels to the

Equinoctial Regions of the NewContinent, 549–50

Voyage aux regions equinoxiales du nouveaucontinent, 549

Hume, David, 22, 26, 109, 170–1on ‘common life’, 171Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding,

117Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 110History of Great Britain, 50and system, 117–18Treatise of Human Nature, 110, 117, 161, 171

Hunt, John, 388see also Hunt, Leigh, and John Hunt

Hunt, Leigh, 104, 230, 233–6, 405–6, 417–19,419

circle of poets, 417and Croker, 447and Italianism, 234Literary Pocket Book, 344–5‘The Sight of Shops’, 345Stories of the Italian Poets, 234

Index

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The Story of Rimini, 234theatre reviewer, 349on translations of Italian works, 234‘Walks around London’, 345

Hunt, Leigh, and John HuntThe Examiner, 346

Hunt family, 230Hunter, John, 516Hurd, Richardon the Faery Queene, 66Letters on Chivalry and Romance, 66–7

Hussey, Christopher, 257Hutton, JamesThe Theory of the Earth, 538‘Vulcanist’ geology, 538–9

hybridity, 515and genre, 518national, 482

‘Hymn to Pan’ (Keats), 644Hyperion (Keats), 442hypocrisy, 655–6

‘I Am’ (Clare), 616identity, 272, 481Scottish national, 163

Illuminati, 206Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory (Playfair),

538imagination, 171, 288, 654, 656, 658, 662apocalyptic, 626Blake and, 641and reason, 161and representation, 582, 588, 599and romance, 69Wordsworthian, 657

Imlay, Gilbert, 366, 373The Emigrants, 220

immanentists, 542Immerwahr, Raymond, 186imperialism, 604, 614and poetry, 614

The Improvement of the Mind (Watts), 107In Memoriam (Tennyson), 441Inchbald, Elizabeth, 498The British Theatre, 498A Simple Story, 136, 137, 461

individualism, 604, 605, 611and Orientalism, 604

industrial revolution, 299industrialism, 97, 254–5, 582inheritance, 482–3, 483Intellectual electricity, novum organum of vision,

and grand mystic secret (Belcher), 112

interiority, 331internalization, 202intertextuality, 436, 479, 508Ireland, 182–6, 183, 200–1, 479

and Anglican Ascendancy, 199, 304, 306–7,307

and Britishness, 185and Enlightenment, 183–4introduction of letters, 183language of, 185literature of, 4‘myth of the West’, 182and nationalism, 185poets of, 3political realities of, 193rebellion in, 193, 196, 206rebellion of 1798, 195see also Dublin

Irish Melodies (Moore), 195Irish stately homes, 306, 307

and the excesses of Orientalism, 307–9Irish tour, 479irony, 440, 444

double irony, 443Irving, Edward, 347Isabella: or, the Pot of Basil (Keats), 235, 444‘isms’, 8–9The Italian (Radcliffe), 231Italian Opera House, 351Italy, 238, 240–5, 245

antiheroes, 236and Britain, 230, 245effeminacy of men, 231feminization of, 231–2insurrections, 241literature of, 225masculine tradition, 241regendering of, 232–4, 238tragedies, 240

Jacobin, 198–203Jacobite, 198–203James, Robert

Medicinal Dictionary, 27Jameson, Fredric, 68Janaway, James

A Token for Children: Being An Exact Accountof the Conversion, Holy and ExemplaryLives, and Joyful Deaths of several youngChildren, 556

Jefferson, Thomas, 195, 357–9, 363, 368letters on the French Revolution, 368and Paine, 366

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763






Jefferson, Thomas (cont.)in Paris, 367–8President of the United States of America,

370Jeffrey, Francis, 104, 121, 175, 177, 415, 475, 646on Byron, 405, 416and the Edinburgh Review, 4, 280–1on ‘Female Poetry’, 405, 425on literary fame, 425on the new poetry, 407–12‘On Literature, considered in its

relationship to social institutions’,176

on Wordsworth, 413Jenner, Edward, 548Jerusalem (Blake), 103, 255, 621, 641Joan of Arc, 327Johnson, Joseph, 365, 642publisher of Castle Rackrent, 473

Johnson, Samuel, 154–5, 157, 171, 554A Dictionary of the English Language, 65, 106and orality, 60

Johnstone, Christian IsobelClan-Albin: A National Tale, 482Elizabeth de Bruce, 179

Jones, EdwardMusical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh

Bards, Preserved by Tradition, andAuthentic Manuscripts, From RemoteAntiquity, 63

Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry andthe Arts, 530

journalism, 349–51writing on London, 342, 344–5

Journey from Hudson’s Bay to the NorthernOcean (Hearne), 283–5

Joyce, James, 199Julia (Williams), 359Julia de Roubigne (Mackenzie), 457Julian and Maddalo; A Conversation (Shelley),

236juvenile drama, 502juvenile libraries, 574, 576–7at St Paul’s Churchyard, 561–9see also City Juvenile Library; Darton’s

Juvenile Library; Newbery’s juvenilelibrary

Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 28, 33Elements of Criticism, 31, 288Essay on Antiquities, 46

Kant, Immanuel, 101, 114, 217, 218, 515, 547,585

Critique of Judgement, 432–3, 533responses to, 215

Kean, Edmund, 350, 496, 501Keats, John, 62, 235, 344, 405–7, 417–19, 445–7,

663and art criticism, 446‘Autumn’, 443and Boccaccio, 235on Dante, 233on empire, 616–17The Fall of Hyperion, 233, 508, 525feminization of, 447‘Hymn to Pan’, 644Hyperion, 442Isabella: or, the Pot of Basil, 235, 444‘La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad’, 55letters of, 443mythology of, 645‘Ode on Melancholy’, 523‘Ode to a Nightingale’, 224, 225, 244‘On a Dream’, 234‘On First Looking into Chapman’s

Homer’, 616–17Poems, 418and poetic autonomy, 442–4and the self, 616Sleep and Poetry, 406, 508, 617on war, 321

Kelly, Kevin, 120Kemble, John, 351, 496, 501Kenilworth (Scott), 303Killigrew, Thomas, 492Kilner, Dorothy, 565Histories of More Children than One; Or

Goodness Better than Beauty, 573The Village School, 573

Kilner, ElizabethA Visit to London, 563

Kilner, Mary Ann, 565Kincaid, Alexander, 380King Alfred (Thomson), 46King’s Arms, 147–8Kirwan, RichardGeological Essays, 538

Kittler, Friedrich, 573Klancher, Jonoral performance, 57

Knight, Richard PayneAnalytical Inquiry into the Principles of

Taste, 258Knights Companions of the Cape, 56Knox, Vicesimus, 43and travel writing, 275

Index

764






Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand von,217

plays by, 214Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth(re)education of mothers, 573

Kristeva, Julia, 508‘Kubla Khan’ (Coleridge), 92

‘La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad’ (Keats),55

labour, 88–90, 97, 99division of, 90, 111domestic, 296, 310–11handloom weaving, 299and political economy, 310produce of, 89productive, 90–2, 310and Smith, 89theory of value, 88–90, 93unproductive, 90–2

Lackington, Jamesremaindering, 384

Laclos, Pierre Ambroise FrancoisChoderlos de

Dangerous Connections, 41Lady Morgan

see Owenson, Sydney (Lady Morgan)Lafayette, Marquis de, 367–8, 368Lake Methodists, 407Lake Poets, 4, 80, 104, 122, 234, 295, 629, 644,

646and the new poetry, 405, 406–12, 423

Lamb, CarolineGlenarvon, 521

Lamb, CharlesAdventures of Ulysses, 567on Barbauld, 568‘romantic reading’ of Bruce, 287–9

Lancaster, Josephmonitorial system of education, 596

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth, 420, 448, 658Landor, W. S., 228landscape, 185, 186–8, 200–1, 247, 253, 256, 261,

267, 614–15and forgetting, 267and history, 253, 268illegibility of, 266–7London suburban, 345painting, 246and the poor, 262‘reading’ of, 266

Lane, William, 383, 466language

and anthropology, 430–1apocalyptic, 448–9the origin of, 431poetic, 434politics of, 408systematic accounts of, 584

Lawrence, William, 545Lectures on Physiology, 388

The Lay of the Last Minstrel (Scott), 326Lay Sermons (Coleridge), 98, 585, 596, 631Leask, Nigel, 605, 608Lectures on Physiology (Lawrence), 388Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

(Blair), 54Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human

Mind (Brown), 51Lee, Sophia

The Recess; or, A Tale of Other Times, 466,468

Lee Priory press, 391Leerssen, Joep, 191Lennox, Charlotte

The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures ofArabella, 65

Lessons for Children or, Rudiments of GoodManners, Morals, and Humility(Fenwick), 559

Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics ofFrance (Williams), 375

Letters from France (Williams), 366Letters of a Hindoo Rajah (Hamilton), 513Letters on Chivalry and Romance (Hurd), 66–7Lewis, Matthew

The Monk, 461Libel Act (1792), 399The Liberal, 230libraries, 396, 453, 451, 455Life in London (Egan), 342Life of Carlo (Fenwick), 565Life of Napoleon (Hazlitt), 212Life of Nelson (Southey), 327–8Linebaugh, Peter, 363‘Lines written a few miles above Tintern

Abbey’ (Wordsworth), 201‘Lines Written among the Euganean Hills’

(Shelley), 239literacy, 556, 572, 575

agents of, 573invention of letters, 183Irish, 183oedipally charged, 573in Scotland, 163struggle for, 573

Index

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Literary and Philosophical Societies, 530literary clubs, 352, 396literary communities, 294literary cultureand Scotland, 159

literary history, 6, 10, 11, 11–12, 316Literary Pocket Book (Hunt), 344–5literary reclamations, 161literary revivals, 161literary systems, 36, 38literary theoryFrench, 209

literary value, 274literature, 4, 7, 214annuals, 420–1anthologies and literary histories of, 9biography, 10–11canon of, 38–9, 274, 382, 624classic and romantic, 2elevation of, 388and form, 106intensity of, 9‘minor literature’, 511naming of period, 7of the new sciences, 527–8and Orientalism, 602and originality, 590–1and philosophy, 427schools of, 104, 121–2and self-consciousness, 427and sensibility, 39sentimental, 29–32, 30–3, 33–6, 39, 40technology of, 29–36, 114and travel writing, 272see also children’s literature; novels;

poetry; travel writing‘The Literature of the Nursery’ (anon), 568A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (Newbery Books),

556, 558Liu, Alan, 626Lives of Edward and John Phillips, Nephews of

Milton (Godwin), 513Locke, John, 89Lockhart, John Gibson, 176, 348, 386, 438Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk, 177–8

The Logic of Political Economy (De Quincey),97, 95

London, 129–38, 332, 337, 338–41, 339–40, 341,345

book piracy in, 387–9book trade, 162built-up areas, 134–6cultural markets in, 345–6, 348–51

developments in, 135a divided city, 136–8, 136, 138–49, 139–49extent of, 129, 130, 134–6, 134–6guidebooks, 342illustrations of, 335–8, 341, 342–4inner city, 138journalism, 342, 344–5, 349–51literary representations of, 130, 157, 342mapping of, 134and the metropolitan intellectual, 158mixed neighbourhoods, 136non-market formations, 346–7and politics, 346the poor in, 142–4, 148–9, 336populations of, 129, 130–4, 131, 132, 341publishing in, 350–1, 378, 380, 381and religion, 346–7salon culture, 348shows and exhibitions, 345space and buildings, 345street culture, 347–8suburbs, 135, 345tourist guide to, 343–4‘Walks around London’, 344see also Regency London; theatre

London Corresponding Society, 139, 142,150–1

London Magazine, 438, 568London printers, booksellers and stationers vade

mecum (Pendred), 379London Times‘Admiral Nelson’s Victory’, 317–18

Longman, 383Looking Glass for the Mind (Newbery), 559,

562Louis XVI, 357, 372Loutherbourg, Philippe de, 251L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 363Lovejoy, A. O., 624Lukacs, Georg, 331, 518–19, 521, 524luxury, 278, 299lyric, 508–11, 522–4and aesthetic ideology, 523and poetry, 523

Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth), 2, 119, 283, 385,403, 407, 409–10, 413, 431, 612, 613

Lyrical Ballads, Appendix (Wordsworth), 54Lyrical Ballads, Preface (Wordsworth), 56Lytton, Bulwer (Lytton Bulwer), 212

Macartney, George, Lord, 272Macbeth (Shakespeare), 588McCalman, Iain, 640

Index

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McDonaugh, Josephineon Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, 311

McGann, Jerome, 250, 625on Ossian, 30The Romantic Ideology, 433, 584

Mackenzie, HenryJulia de Roubigne, 457The Man of Feeling, 61, 456, 457

McKeon, Michael, 274Mackintosh, James, 33Macpherson, James, 34, 63, 164, 178, 182,

195–6, 430Fingal, 58forgeries, 160Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in

the Highlands of Scotland, 58–60Ossian, 30Ossian scandal, 167, 172–3Poems of Ossian, 58, 159Temora, 58

The Making of the English Landscape (Hoskins),253, 256

The Making of the English Working Class(Thompson), 256

Malthus, Thomas Robert, 84An Essay on Population, 72, 74–82, 81and population, 81, 112–13and Southey, 79wartime writings, 87

Man. A Paper for Ennobling the Species, 29The Man of Feeling (Mackenzie), 61, 456,

457Mandeville (Godwin), 521Mangan, James Clarence, 199, 200Manning, Peter, 416Mansfield Park (Austen), 271–2, 305Marcus, Sharon, 312Marino Faliero (Byron), 242–3market value, 95–7Marriage (Ferrier), 308, 482The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Blake), 118,

268, 642Marshall, Alfred, 100Marshall, John, 569Martin, Benjamin, 110Martin, Sarah CatherineComic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and

her Dog, 554Marxism, 435Mary and her Cat. In Words not exceeding Two

Syllables (Fenwick), 575masculinity, 606, 609mass culture, 454

materialism, 209, 540–2, 544–6Enlightenment, 208

maternity, 483Mathias, T. J., 157Mathilda (Shelley), 523Maturin, Charles, 306

The Milesian Chief, 64, 190, 194, 197, 198,201, 202, 487

on stately homes in Ireland, 307Wild Irish Boy, 306

Maurice, Thomas, 153mechanics’ institutes, 531Medicinal Dictionary (James), 27Medieval period, 253melancholy, 168, 201

see also nostalgiaMelincourt (Peacock), 56melodrama, 504memoirs, 35, 520

memoir-novels, 462–5Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

(Hogg), 488Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Hays), 464–5,

520Memoirs of the life, character and writings of the

late reverend Philip Doddridge (Orton),35

Merry, Robert‘The Wounded Soldier’, 323

metamorphosis, 514–16meteorological sublime, 534–7Methodism, 636–7metropolitan sublime, 129Mezciems, Jenny, 275Michael (Wordsworth), 296, 312, 409The Milesian Chief (Maturin), 64, 190, 194, 197,

198, 201, 202, 487Mill, John Stuart, 11, 96, 581–2, 583Millar, Andrew, 380Millar, John, 277, 278millenarianism, 338

see also apocalypseMillgate, Jane, 476Milton (Blake), 331, 332Milton, John, 259

Paradise Lost, 599, 622Minerva Press, 383, 466, 474, 478‘minor literature’, 511The Minstrel (Beattie), 65Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (Scott), 54, 57The Mirror and the Lamp (Abrams), 430misogyny, 56Modern Greece (Hemans), 238

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Modern Painting and the Northern RomanticTradition (Rosenblum), 186

modernity, 3, 5, 6, 118, 168–9, 190and Enlightenment, 102, 113–14, 160and nervous diseases, 27–8and Orientalism, 604and Scotland, 160and sensibility, 26–9

Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord, 430The Monk (Lewis), 461monotheism, 269Montesquieu, Charles de SecondatThe Spirit of the Laws, 278

Monthly Magazine, 635Monthly Review, 41Moore, Margaret King (Lady Mount Cashell)Stories of Old Daniel, 574

Moore, Thomas, 385‘Forget not the Field’, 197Irish Melodies, 195in the United States of America, 221

morality, 21–2, 329–31moral tales, 560

More, Hannah, 481, 637, 639Betty Brown; or, the St Giles’s Orange Girl,

136Coelebs in Search of a Wife, 480‘Slavery’, 638

Morgante Maggiori (Pulci), 236The Morning Chronicle, 323The Morning Post, 322Morrison, Paul, 305Moxon, Edward, 389Mullan, John, 35, 39Murphy, Arthur, 214Murray, John, 383, 385, 388Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards,

Preserved by Tradition, and AuthenticManuscripts, From Remote Antiquity(Jones), 63

‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’ (Hazlitt),634

The Mysteries of Udolpho (Radcliffe), 302, 319,467

myth, 168

Napoleon, 319, 320Napoleonic wars, 82Nares, Robert, 152–4Nash, John‘Line of Separation’, 136

nation, the, 204–8, 483consciousness of, 204

and hybridity, 482national cultureof Scotland, 174and Scott, Sir Walter, 177

national debt, 82–7national economy, 185national historyantiquarianism as, 47narrative of, 169

national identities, 301–2, 308national liberation movements, 211national literary system, 36national literature, 389national novels, 475, 477see also national tales

national representation, 490national tales, 190, 478–81Anglo-Irish, 479, 483and Gaelic culture, 192as Irish Gothic, 487

nationalism, 198–203, 204Irish, 185localized, 330

Native Americans‘Dying Indian’ poems, 284stoicism, 284–5

natural history, 517, 525A Natural History of Selbourne (White), 252natural philosophy, 547natural sciences, 278natural sublime, 528, 532–7and the deity, 537

Natural Supernaturalism (Abrams), 431nature, 170, 255, 258, 270see also landscape

‘nebular hypothesis’, 539‘negative value’, 96Nelson, Horatio, Admiral Lord, 327–8and Emma Hamilton, 329

nervous system, 26, 542–3diseases of, 27–8theory of, 24

New Criticism, 509New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and

Modern of the Canting Crew, A, 45New Historicism, 8, 294, 434, 435, 625New History of German Literature (Wellbery),

11new sciencesdisciplines of, 527literature of, 527–8see also public science

Newbery, Elizabeth, 559, 575

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Looking Glass for the Mind, 562Newbery, John, 561and children’s literature, 554–5

Newbery Books, 554–5, 567, 568commercialization of children’s literature,

561Fables in Verse, 562The Fairing: or, a Golden Toy; for Children of

all sizes and denominations, 557The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, 557A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, 556, 558mass consumption of, 558–9self-advertisement in, 558, 561, 563at St Paul’s Churchyard, 556–9successors to, 561Thousand and One Nights, 559

Newbery’s juvenile library, 556–9, 558, 563Newey, Vincent, 617newspapers, 36, 151, 316–19, 379advertising in, 151content of, 37daily, 351, 392feature articles, 152and war, 322and the war widow, 322–4

Newton, Sir Isaac, 109generic innovations, 111on optics, 111

Newtonianism, 108Nichol, John PringleViews of the Architecture of the Heavens, 540

Nicholson, WilliamJournal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and

the Arts, 530nitrous oxide experiments, 542–3Noble, Francisreprints, 453

Northanger Abbey (Austen), 304–5‘northern genius’ theory, 214Norton Anthology of English Literature, 10nostalgia, 61, 194, 195, 290novel of manners, 456–61, 458–9, 461, 513, 521Novelists Magazine (New Novelists Magazine),

38, 455, 458installment plan, 455

novels, 4, 40–4, 68, 124–5, 378, 389, 518anonymous, 388for children, 555circulation novels, 559collections of, 475commercial, 378and consumerism, 455–6of courtship, 458, 560

courtship novels, 458, 560domestic, 480–3domestic novels, 480–3English, 475epistolary novels, 513, 516, 520, 559, 560as a form of epic, 509forms of, 389, 454, 459and lyric, 510–11and the marriage plot, 194memoir-novels, 462–5and modernity, 452–3narrative structure of, 470national novels, 475, 516and newspapers, 318and poetry, 519, 519–20political novels, 454a public genre, 477–8quest romance, 66–7, 509repackaging of, 452reprinting of, 395rise of, 452and romance, 167, 191romantic, 68and the scene of reading, 476scholarly apparatus of, 192in school, 553sensation novels, 519sentimental novels, 456, 459serialization of, 393themes of, 454transformation of, 3–4, 451–5women readers of, 40, 42see also Gothic novels; historical novels

‘Novelties for the Nursery’, 554Novum Organum With Other Parts of The Great

Instauration (Bacon), 105–7nursery rhymes, 574

The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys (Owenson),191, 194, 198, 478, 483

Observations made during a Voyage round theWorld (Forster), 534

O’Byrne, Alison, 130O’Carolan, Turlough, 184Ode (Ode: Intimations of Immortality from

Recollections of Early Childhood)(Wordsworth), 411, 593

‘Ode on Melancholy’ (Keats), 523‘Ode on Venice’ (Byron), 239‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (Keats), 224, 225, 244‘Ode to Naples’ (Shelley), 239O’Donnel (Owenson), 187, 192, 483Old Dissent, 633

Index

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The Old English Baron (Reeve), 68Old Mortality (Scott), 302Old Price (OP) Riots, 351, 505old wives’ tales, 575–6Olmsted, Frederick Law, 261O’Longain, Micheal Og, 200‘On a Dream’ (Keats), 234‘On Court-Influence’ (Hazlitt), 645–6‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’

(Keats), 616–17On Germany (de Stael), 216–17On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in

History (Carlyle), 550On Literature (de Stael), 216‘On Literature, considered in its relationship

to social institutions’ (Jeffrey), 176‘On Murder Considered as One of the Fine

Arts’ (De Quincey), 587–9‘On My First Acquaintance with Poets’

(Hazlitt), 589–93On the Constitution of Church and State

(Coleridge), 631‘On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth’

(De Quincey), 585, 587–9‘On the Proposed National Monument at

Edinburgh’, 174opera, 351Opie, Amelia, 524oppression, 332optimism, 110oral and folk idioms, 488–9oral performance, 57and Klancher, 57

oral tradition, 167, 168, 568–9children’s literature in the, 574–6

orality, 57–63, 570, 572The Order of Things (Foucault), 100Organic Remains of a Former World

(Parkinson), 537organicism, 73, 99Orient, theand the aristocracy, 605–6, 609and ‘art and design’, 608–9culture of, 618as a literary career, 601and masculinity, 609

Orientalinteriors, 307–9, 339literature, 607–8pictures, 608tales, 607–8

Oriental Renaissance, 602Orientalism, 601–5

and individualism, 604and mythmaking, 602and poetry, 605, 615and political radicalism, 605–12and style, 606–12and the sublime, 603

Original Stories From Real Life(Wollstonecraft), 508

originality, 590–1origins, 169Orlando Furioso (Ariosto), 235–6Ormond (Edgeworth), 189Orton, JobMemoirs of the life, character and writings

of the late reverend Philip Doddridge, 35Oscar (Irish hero), 182Ossian, 30, 58–60, 63, 160, 178, 195–6, 430controversy over, 167, 172–3, 182defence of, 164and Enlightenment, 169

otherness, 603the other and self, 603–5

Owenson, Robert, 185Owenson, Sydney (Lady Morgan), 306, 483The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys, 190, 191,

194, 198, 483O’Donnel, 187, 192, 483The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale, 182,

184, 189, 303, 306, 478–80, 483Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age, 11Oxford History of English Literature, 10

pagans, 269Paine, Thomas, 362, 367, 368, 369–71, 370Age of Reason, 642and Burke, 370, 609Common Sense, 366, 369and the French Revolution, 366, 370and Jefferson, 366leaving for America, 369responses to, 220The Rights of Man, 358, 369, 370, 609and style, 610–11

Paley, William, 82pamphlets, 151, 601pantheism, 629paper money, 82–7papermaking, 392, 394Paradise Lost (Milton), 600, 622The Parental Instructor; or, A father’s present to

his children, 574Paris, 226Park, Mungo, 290

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Parkinson, JamesOrganic Remains of a Former World, 537

Pasley, C. W.Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions

of the British Empire, 329past, the

see antiquarianismPast and Present (Carlyle), 217pastoralism, 255see also countryside, the

patriotism, 205Peacock, Thomas Love, 45The Four Ages of Poetry, 281, 423, 599Melincourt, 56Rhododaphne, 643

Peggy and her Mammy (Elliott), 575Pendred, JohnLondon printers, booksellers and stationers

vade mecum, 379Peninsular campaign (1812), 319Penny Cyclopaedia, 398penny gaffs, 502Penny Magazine, 398Percy, ThomasReliques of Ancient English Poetry, 53–6, 58,

61, 63, 67performance, 57, 60periodicals, 37, 151, 175, 350, 389, 436contributors to, 350Edinburgh, 159literary, 350magazines, 37, 457monthlies, 351, 474quarterlies, 351, 474radical, 162scientific, 530–2scientific content of, 530weeklies, 351, 401–2

‘The Periodical Press’ (Hazlitt), 437–8periodization, 101–5, 114, 125as a system, 121–6, 125

The Peripatetic (Thelwall), 511Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial

Regions of the New Continent(Humboldt), 549

Persuasion (Austen), 318, 328Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk (Lockhart), 177–8phantasmagoria, 349Phillips, Mark Salber, 31Phillips, Michael, 139A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our

Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful(Burke), 94, 186–8, 533

Philosophical Magazine, 530philosophical materialism, 209A Philosophical View of Reform (Shelley), 83,

424, 598philosophy, 24–44, 427, 432–5, 547, 581, 595

Coleridge and, 439, 442, 446French, 208German, 212, 215–18and human nature, 276speculative, 581

physicians, 24–9physiology, 24–9Pickwick Papers (Dickens), 393picturesque, the, 246, 257–65, 258, 260, 264,

533and art, 258and the destitute figure, 265and intricacy, 258satirized, 260and vagrants, 263the viewer as a foreigner, 264

Pig’s Meat (Spence, periodical), 640Pinkerton, John

Voyages and Travels, 273piracy

in Dublin, 386in London, 387–9from overseas, 389in United States of America, 387

place, 13, 247, 249, 269Place, Francis, 144

Autobiography, 335Playfair, John

Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory, 538pneumatic medicine, 542–3Poems (Keats), 418Poems, Chiefly Written in the Scottish Dialect

(Burns), 165Poems in Two Volumes (Wordsworth), 104Poems of Ossian (Macpherson), 58, 159Poems of Wordsworth (Arnold), 622‘Poems on the Naming of Places’

(Wordsworth), 269poet playwrights, 495, 498poetic autonomy, 428–30, 449–50

Coleridge and, 429, 444and criticism, 435–42, 443self-criticism, 442–50

poetics, 1poetry, 3, 404–8, 429

decline of, 389as discourse, 439–41and exoticism, 281

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poetry (cont.)and genetics, 430–1and history and geography, 280as imperial discourse, 614Lake Poets, 4language of, 434and lyric, 510, 523and novels, 467–8, 519–20as performance, 439–41and philosophy, 432–5of political sympathy, 240radicalism of, 442readers of, 429rhetorical, 656and self-consciousness, 427, 428, 624and self-control, 613–15and the sublime, 280, 613and travel writing, 291and war, 322and the war widow, 322–4working-class, 3see also Cockney Poets; Lake Poets; Satanic

Poetspoetry, new, 403–12, 423–6and celebrity, 414–17Cockney Poets, 417‘internal’, 412and new politics, 405Satanic Poets, 419–20

poets, 2–3, 7, 272and labour, 92as legislators, 424, 600and self-consciousness, 427use of past and foreign battles, 320

The Poets of Great Britain (Bell), 382Polanyi, Karl, 6political economy, 71–4, 75, 78, 174, 185and domestic labour, 310and literary figures, 72and literary production, 92and population, 74in the post-war period, 87–100and war, 82–7

political novels, 454political rights, 528politics, 2, 175–7gender and family, 241and writers, 1see also reform

Polwhele, RichardThe Unsex’d Females, 363, 422

poor, the, 78–82, 262beggars, 264

in London, 336parish relief for, 78, 81paupers, 298in poetry, 410vagrants, 263workhouses for, 298

‘The Poor and Their Dwellings’ (Crabbe), 296Poovey, Mary, 473Pope, AlexanderAn Essay on Criticism, 445–6on landscape, 259

popular fiction, 383popular radicalism, 335–6Porter, Jane, 575postal system, 36post-boy, the, 314–16, 315Practical Observations upon the Education of the

People (Brougham), 531Pratt, Mary Louiseand travel writing, 279

Precept and Example; or, Midsummer Holidays(Elliott), 573, 576–7

preformation, 514–16The Prelude (Wordsworth), 120, 211, 444, 554,

623–44Presbyterianism, 633Preston, William, 215‘A Pretty Book’, 571Price, Richard, 131, 213, 357–9, 360on the American Revolution, 220Discourse on the Love of our Country, 220, 633and the French Revolution, 372

Price, Uvedale, 533Essay on the Picturesque, 258

Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 306, 313, 319Priestley, Joseph, 360, 529, 536, 547, 633Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit,

542primitive cultures, 279and ‘progressive’ England, 286

Primitive Methodists, 636primitivism, 53, 183The Principles of Literary History (Crane), 10Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

(Ricardo), 84–5, 88–9print, 57–63, 350–1printing press, 151technology, 390–5, 511–12

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of aJustified Sinner (Hogg), 180

productive classes, 97productive labour, 310The Progress of Romance (Reeve), 39, 67

Index

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Prometheus, 648–9Prometheus (Byron), 648–9Prometheus Unbound (Shelley), 445, 598, 648–9,

657Promis’d Horrors of the French Invasion, – or –

Forcible Reason for negotiating aRegicide Peace (Gillray), 140–2

property, 262, 264‘The Prophecy of Dante’ (Byron), 233prose fiction, 519prostitution, 144–6, 335Protestantism, 198, 627provincial publishing, 379, 385psychoanalysis, 434psychology, 51, 581, 586, 589public and private spheres, 293, 294and women authors, 311–13

public education initiativesby Brougham, 531

public housesand radicalism, 336

public opinion, 583, 584public science, 527–8, 529–32publishing, 14, 377, 378, 383, 389, 395–402commercial, 130in Dublin, 378in Edinburgh, 161, 378, 380house ‘looks’ and, 389in industrial towns, 385as labour, 92–5in London, 378, 379, 380, 381of novels, 38, 383professionals, 292provincial, 379of revolution, 365sociability of, 384–5steam press, 390, 391–2, 395stereotyping printing plates, 393, 395taxes on, 400–2and technology, 151, 390–5, 391, 511–12

Pulci, LuigiMorgante Maggiori, 236

Pursuits of Literature (Godwin), 157

Quarterly Review, 658scientific coverage in, 530

Queen Mab (Shelley), 388, 643quest romance, 66–7, 509

Radcliffe, Ann, 467Gaston de Blondeville, or The court of Henry

III. Keeping Festival in Ardenne: ARomance, 68

The Italian, 231The Mysteries of Udolpho, 302, 319,

467The Romance of the Forest, 467

radicalism, 74–7, 78, 80, 142, 399, 442anti-commercial, 83and Coleridge, 630–2, 633and conservatism, 80cultural, 362and the French Revolution, 364popular, 335–6and public houses, 336and romance, 69‘seditious meetings’, 529spread of, 363suppression of, 361underworld of, 640Wordsworth and, 630working-class, 89, 97, 640

rational Dissent, 633–5attacks on, 645obstacles confronted by, 635

rationalism, 622Raven, James, 396readers, 109, 378, 398–9, 639, 651–2, 654–6

female, 474of novels, 474of poetry, 429and sentimentality, 33–6and sympathy, 32–3

realism, 31reason, 161, 599rebellion, 1, 357–9

see also reform; revolutionThe Recess; or, A Tale of Other Times (Lee),

466, 468The Recluse (Wordsworth), 122Recollections of a Blue-Coat Schoolboy (Scargill),

553Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland

(Wordsworth), 282Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets

(De Quincey), 589–93Records of Women: With Other Poems

(Hemans), 244Redgauntlet (Scott), 174, 180, 320Rediker, Marcus, 363Reeve, Clara, 30, 31

The Old English Baron, 68on Ossian, 65The Progress of Romance, 39, 67

Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke),208, 358, 609, 610, 633

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reform, 1, 139, 220–1, 357–9, 359–62cultural, 362and the French Revolution, 360–1parliamentary, 138–40political, 336–8social, 23, 362, 363

Reform Act (1832), 528Reform Bill (1832), 361Regency Londonand cultural transformations, 337images of, 335–8and oligarchy, 337and political reforms, 336–8representation of, 340and Victorian modernity, 337–8

regicide, 361, 372Reid, William Hamilton, 218religion, 621–2, 622–7and divine creativity, 540–2free will, 77history of, 627preachers of, 347preferments in the church, 153and social claims, 628unorthodox, 643Wordsworth and, 623–4, 630see also Church of England; Evangelical

revivalReliques of Ancient English Poetry (Percy), 53–6,

58, 61, 63, 67Remarks on Antiquities (Forsyth), 228Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce,

Manufactures, Fashions and Politics(Ackermann), 341

representation, 581–2, 582–6Benthamite approach to, 597and imagination, 582, 588, 599Shelley and, 582

reprinting, 380, 382, 386, 389, 392, 453, 454Repton, Humphrey, 261Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy

(Hemans), 238Reviews, 151, 436–9see also periodicals

Revolt of Islam (Shelley), 643revolution, 1, 256, 357–9, 364, 377failure of, 201literary productions of, 365see also American Revolution; French

Revolution; rebellion; reformThe Revolution in Tanner’s Lane (White), 416rhetorical poetry, 656Rhododaphne (Peacock), 643

Ricardo, David, 82, 96–9Principles of Political Economy and Taxation,

84–5, 88–9Richardson, Alan, 638Richardson, Samuel, 34, 43Clarissa, 456

Richetti, John, 5The Rights of Man (Paine), 358, 369, 370, 609The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (Coleridge),

413Ringan Gilhaize (Galt), 179Ritson, JosephAncient English Metrical Romances, 53

Robert, Nicolas-Louis, 392Robertson, William, 50Robinson, George, 379, 384Robinson, MaryAinsi va Le Monde, 364Walsingham, 451–4, 461

Rogers, A.The History of Miss Temple, 40

Rogers, Samuel, 228romance, 65–70and chivalry, 65–7, 68and Enlightenment, 159–62and the imagination, 69and novels, 167, 191origins of, 67and radicalism, 69Scott and, 172–3

The Romance of the Forest (Radcliffe), 467Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery

(Coleman), 274‘Romantic conservatism’, 79The Romantic Ideology (McGann), 433, 584Romantic Reformation (Ryan), 646Romanticism, 101, 254category debated, 7history of, 11period of, 121–3study of, 121

Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries (Butler),432

Rosenblum, RobertModern Painting and the Northern Romantic

Tradition, 186Ross, Marlon, 329Rossetti, Christina, 448Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 116–17, 183, 206,

210–12Confessions, 117Discourses, 430and the origin of language, 431

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‘system of music’ of, 117and Voltaire, 210

Rowley, Thomas, 60, 62Royal Institution, 529‘The Ruined Cottage’ (Wordsworth), 299The Ruins, or, A Survey of the Revolutions of

Empires (Volney), 643The Ruins, Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of

Empires: And the Law of Nature(Volney), 201

Russell, Gillian, 330‘Ruth’ (Wordsworth), 283Ryan, Robert, 629Romantic Reformation, 646

‘The Ryse of Peyncteynge yn Englade,wroten bie T. Rowlie’ (Chatterton),60

St Giles ‘Rookery’, 136St Leon (Godwin), 462, 470, 478, 513St Paul’s Churchyard, 562Harris’s at, 562–3Newbery Books at, 556–9, 561–9

Salmonia (Davy), 548salon culture, 348Sandford and Merton (Day), 560Sartor Resartus (Carlyle), 162, 180Satanic Poets, 405, 406, 419–20, 646satire, 108and antiquarians, 48

savages, 202and the poetic sublime, 280travel accounts of, 277

Sayer, Karen, 300Scargill, William PittRecollections of a Blue-Coat Schoolboy, 553

The Sceptic (Hemans), 658–62scepticism, 110, 656–7, 659, 663Schaffer, Simon, 546, 547Schelling, Friedrich, 446, 509Schiller, Friedrich, 227, 432Schlegel, Friedrich, 443, 507, 518School for Husbands, Written by a Lady, 41schools of writing, 104, 121–2Schwab, Raymond, 602scienceand the established church, 532heroes of, 528, 546–51popularization of, 546‘scientist’, 527see also new science; public science

Scotland, 159, 162–7, 4821832 Reform of institutions, 162

a ‘civil society’, 163and the Enlightenment, 159, 163, 276–81,

385, 470and the French Revolution, 161and Highland clan society, 160and the Highland Clearances, 482and the Highland Tour, 482and Highlanders, 172institutions of, 163intellectuals in, 163internal divisions in, 161‘invented’ tradition of, 168literacy rates in, 163and literary culture, 159literature of, 4, 160, 161, 162and modernity, 160national culture of, 165, 174national identity of, 163philosophical autonomy of, 163poets of, 3as ‘Republic of Letters’, 162universities, 163see also Edinburgh

Scott, John, 438Scott, Sir Walter, 51, 65, 159, 178, 191, 280, 377,

386, 469Abbotsford, 5Ballantyne’s Novelists’ Library, 475and conjectural history, 173‘Essay on Imitations of the Ancient

Ballads’, 57and historical novels, 124, 172–4, 332, 520Kenilworth, 303The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 326Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 54, 57and national culture, 177Old Mortality, 302and Ossian, 172post-Waverley fiction, 487Redgauntlet, 174, 180, 320and romance, 67, 172–3, 193use of history, 332Waverley, 124, 172–3, 206, 471–2, 484, 485Waverley Novels, 3, 6, 162, 178, 476–7,

484–6Scottish Enlightenment, 159, 163, 276–81, 385,

470and travel writing, 276–81

Scottish Romanticism, 159, 178–81Scottish stadial theory, 278

and the condition of women, 279The Seasons (Thomson), 46Secrecy; of The Ruin on the Rock (Fenwick), 521

Index

775






sectarianism, 644–7secularism, 171, 625–6Seditious Societies Act (1799), 399self-consciousness, 11self-definition, 604self-determination, 605sensation novel, 519Sense and Sensibility (Austen), 460sensibility, 21–4, 26, 29–30, 32, 38–44, 460aesthetic, 25excessive, 27and literature, 39material, 25and modernity, 26–9moral, 25nervous, 24and social distinction, 26theories of, 24–9and women, 26

A Sentimental Journey (Sterne), 32, 224sentimental literature, 21–4, 29–32, 441, 456,

459for children, 559, 561commercialized, 39and readers, 33–6techniques of, 30–3, 40

A Series of Plays on the Passions (Baillie), 500Seward, Anna, 34, 42sexuality, 74, 76cult of, 643

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord,274–5

Shakespeare, Williamcloseting of, 499Macbeth, 588representation of, 502

Shelley, Clara, 229Shelley, Mary, 228, 230, 298, 583Frankenstein, 4, 298, 469, 536, 539, 544, 643in London, 346Mathilda, 523and the novel of manners, 513novels of, 449‘Transformations’, 524Valperga; or, the Life and Adventures of

Castruccio, Prince of Lucca, 243, 487,521

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 6, 80, 85, 211, 235, 419,526, 539

Alastor, 519, 618The Cenci, 242criticism of Byron, 658on Dante, 232

A Defence of Poetry, 232, 403, 423–5, 431, 439,599

drowning of, 230Hellas, 238, 618and imperialist language, 618on the insurrections of 1820–21, 239Julian and Maddalo; A Conversation, 236‘Lines Written among the Euganean

Hills’, 239in London, 346and Malthus, 82mythology of, 645and the national debt, 83‘Ode to Naples’, 239A Philosophical View of Reform, 83, 424, 598on poets, 600political actions and literary works, 599Prometheus Unbound, 445, 598, 648–9, 657Queen Mab, 388, 643and representation, 582Revolt of Islam, 643self-scepticism, 657on Tasso, 236‘To the Republicans of North America’,

221Triumph of Life, 233on Venice, 238

Shelley, William, 229Shelley familyin Italy, 229–30

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 139, 146Short Residence in Sweden (Wollstonecraft),

279‘The Sicilian Captive’ (Hemans), 244Siddons, Sarah, 496, 501‘The Siege of Zaragoza’ (Southey), 324‘The Sight of Shops’ (Hunt), 345‘Signs of the Times’ (Carlyle), 550A Simple Story (Inchbald), 136, 137, 461sincerity, 655–6, 662Siskin, Clifford, 510, 520and ‘writing’, 511–12

Sismondi, J. C.Histoires des Republiques Italiennes, 241

slavery, 207, 271, 272‘Slavery’ (More), 638Sleep and Poetry (Keats), 406, 508, 617Smellie, William, 47Smith, Adam, 28, 71, 83labour theory of value, 71, 89and rhetorical devices of non-fiction, 31The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 22, 29,

111, 171

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The Wealth of Nations, 88, 111, 160, 470Smith, Charlotte, 136, 157, 421Desmond, 452–4‘The Emigrants’, 321

Smith, Horacesee Smith, James, and Horace Smith

Smith, James, and Horace SmithHorace in London, 340‘The Stock-Jobber’s Lament’, 340

Smith, Sydney, 218Smithson, Roberton the picturesque, 261

Snow, C. P., 528social commentary, 73social networks, 352–4careers and reputations made in, 354of journalism and bookselling, 352of literary figures, 352

social sciences, 470social space, 247social structures, 596–8, 595social tales, 560Society for the Diffusion of Useful

Knowledge, 531Society for the Reformation of Principles by

Appropriate Literature, 152Society for the Suppression of Vice, 347Songs of Innocence and Experience (Blake), 554,

639‘Sonnet on the Extinction of the Venetian

Republic’ (Wordsworth), 238Southcott, Joanna, 640Southey, Robert, 74, 76–82, 86, 280, 409The Book of the Church, 630Life of Nelson, 327–8and Malthus, 79, 82opposition to political economy, 79and Orientalism, 644and poet laureateship, 645on the Satanic Poets, 646‘The Siege of Zaragoza’, 324and the United States of America, 220, 221A Vision of Judgement, 419on war, 320

Southwell, Charles, 540space, 247social, 247

spectacle, 491–2, 493, 496, 502spectatorship, 490speculative philosophy, 581Spence, Thomas, 336, 640The Spirit of the Age (Hazlitt), 594–8The Spirit of the Laws (Montesquieu), 278

stadial theory, 49, 50, 54, 68, 160, 169–70,276–81, 291

and the condition of women, 279Scottish, 278see also conjectural history

stately homes, 293, 305–11Irish, 306, 307–9public domestic spaces, 306visiting of, 306

Statesman’s Manual, 631Sterne, Laurence, 35

A Sentimental Journey, 32, 224Steuart, James, 91–2Stewart, Dugald, 170‘The Stock-Jobber’s Lament’ (Smith and

Smith), 340Stone, John Hurford, 366Stories of Old Daniel (Moore), 574Stories of the Italian Poets (Hunt), 234The Story of Rimini (Hunt), 234Stothard, Thomas

illustrations for The Novelist’s Magazine, 458Strahan, William, 380The Strand, 143street culture, 347–8street theatre, 503Strutt, Joseph, 147Stuart, Gilbert, 26style, 25, 606–12, 610–11subjectivity, 121, 462, 585, 603, 618

and travel writing, 279and the traveller, 289, 292

sublime, 94Celtic, 186geological, 534, 537–9in the Irish novel, 190meteorological, 534–7metropolitan, 129in the mind, 533natural, 186–8and Orientalism, 603and poetry, 613theological connotations of, 532, 534

sublimity, 440, 444suffrage, 139Summerfield, Geoffrey

on the Godwins’ City Juvenile Library,567–8

Sunday schools, 639supernatural, the, 68, 192superstition, 268–70, 469Swinburne, A. C., 648symbolic art, 517

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sympathy, 21–4, 29, 240, 456, 663political, 240and readers, 32–3theories of, 23

systems, 103–5, 105, 116–20, 118, 120embedded, 110–12, 112–14, 118, 122and Enlightenment, 102–4of exclusion, 123and genre, 103, 105–8, 110–11, 116, 124–5periodization as, 121–6, 125and reality, 105–6of war, 331–4of weather, 332–4and women writers, 124and Wordsworth, 119writers of, 109

Tabart BooksNursery Tales series, 569self-advertisement in, 563–6

Tabart’s Juvenile and School Library, 563–6Tacitus, Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius, 31A Tale of Mystery (Holcroft), 504talesexotic, 275moral, 560old wives’, 575–6Oriental, 607–8social, 560

Tales of the Castle (Genlis), 41‘Tam O’Shanter’ (Burns), 48The Task (Cowper), 314–16Tasso, TorquatoGerusalemme Liberata, 236

tastesee style

Tate, Allenon extension and intension, 524

taxes, 82–7, 339Taylor, JeffreysHarry’s Holidays: or the Doings of One, Who

Had Nothing to Do, 555Tegg, Thomas, 389Temora (Macpherson), 58Tennyson, Alfred, LordIn Memorium, 441

Test Acts (1673 and 1678), 627, 628, 635Thackeray, William, 335theatre, 139, 349, 351, 490–2, 506, 508–11, 586actors, 496, 501–2and aesthetic change, 491characters, 496, 500, 501children’s, 502

and the chorus, 587contemporary works, 495costume, 497criticism, 349–50, 494, 498–502, 498, 500critics of, 498–502forms of representation in, 490–1German, 206, 214handlists, 495illegitimate, 490, 493legitimate, 490, 492–3and Lives of actors, 503in London, 342‘Lord Byron’, 503moral justification of, 501and politics, 490, 491productions of Life in London, 343programme content, 494and reason, 501resident companies, 496set design, 497stagecraft, 497standards of, 495street theatre, 503and suspension of disbelief, 502theories of, 498urban spectacles, 502–6viewing, 492–7visibility of, 490–1women performers, 500, 503

Thelwall, John, 143, 150, 221, 544The Peripatetic, 511

theories of value, 73Theory of Fictions (Bentham), 597The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Smith), 22, 29,

111, 171The Theory of the Earth (Hutton), 538Things As They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb

Williams (Godwin), 105, 108, 118, 120,129, 454, 461, 463, 464, 478

Thistlewood, Arthur, 336Thompson, E. P., 335The Making of the English Working Class, 256

Thompson, John, 341Thomson, JamesKing Alfred, 46‘Spring’ in The Seasons, 46

Thomson, ThomasAnnals of Philosophy, 530‘The Thorn’ (Wordsworth), 519Thousand and One Nights (Newbery Books),

559The Three Perils of Man: War, Women and

Witchcraft (Hogg), 180, 488

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The Three Perils of Woman: Love, Leasing andJealousy (Hogg), 180

Thurtell, John, 348Tighe, Mary, 448Tilloch, AlexanderPhilosophical Magazine, 530

‘Time Real and Imaginary’ (Coleridge), 524The Times, 391Tintern Abbey (Wordsworth), 433, 434, 615Tissot, Samuel AugusteEssay on the Diseases incident to literary

persons, 27‘To the Republicans of North America’

(Shelley), 221A Token for Children: Being An Exact Account of

the Conversion, Holy and ExemplaryLives, and Joyful Deaths of several youngChildren (Janaway), 556

Toland, John, 188History of the Druids, 188

topography, 47, 252Torquato Tasso (Goethe), 236Tour of Ireland (Young), 479tourism, 47, 228, 263, 264, 266–7, 486‘foreign’ character of, 264

trade unions, 97Trafalgar Square, 144transcendentalists, 542‘Transformations’ (Shelley), 524translations, 512, 617and the East India Company, 617of Eastern texts, 601, 603

transmutationist theories, 540–2travel, 512–13, 549and accommodation, 229and cottages, 297to Italy, 228and subjectivity, 289, 292and Wollstonecraft, Mary, 512see also tourism

travel writing, 272, 272–6, 276–81, 457and the British empire, 273–6and empiricism, 292fictional, 273and imaginative literature, 272‘literature of fact’, 288‘literature of knowledge’, 274‘literature of power’, 274–5and poetry, 291reviews of, 273and the Scottish Enlightenment, 276–81and subjectivity, 279and Vicesimus Knox, 275

and young people, 275‘The Traveller at the Source of the Nile’

(Hemans), 286, 289Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile

(Bruce), 286–9Treason Trials (1794), 142–3, 361, 504Treatise of Human Nature (Hume), 110, 117,

161, 171Trilling, Lionel

on Wordsworth, 623–4Triumph of Life (Shelley), 233trope of encounter, 479trope of the ruin, 201Trotter, Thomas, 26, 40

on fallen women, 42and nervous diseases, 27–8A View of the Nervous Temperament, 24

Trumpener, Katie, 164, 202, 271, 303Turk’s Head public house, 146Twain, Mark, 391typefounders, 394

Union of Parliaments (1707), 160, 162–7Unitarianism, 630, 633–5United Irishmen, 184, 198, 200United States of America, 206–8, 218, 223

culture of, 219–20emigration from Britain, 208in the imagination, 220literature of, 208, 218–20and piracy, 387and reprinting, 395and Romanticism, 624, 649war of 1812, 219see also American Revolution

Universal British Directory, 137unpublished works, 526The Unsex’d Females (Polwhele), 363, 422unstamped press, 401–2‘use value’, 95–7utilitarianism, 82, 94, 598

Vagabondia, 347Valperga; or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio,

Prince of Lucca (Shelley), 243, 487, 521value

aesthetic, 73, 96exchange, 88market, 95–7theories of, 73use, 95–7

Vendler, Helenon Keats’s ‘Autumn’, 443

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Venice, 238–40The Vespers of Palermo (Hemans), 243–4Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

(Chambers), 541–2The Victim of Prejudice (Hays), 519A View of the Nervous Temperament (Trotter),

24Views of the Architecture of the Heavens

(Nichol), 540The Village (Crabbe), 254The Village School (Kilner), 573Vincent, William, 153–4A Vindication of the Rights of Men

(Wollstonecraft), 373A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

(Wollstonecraft), 211, 373, 606–11‘The Vision’ (Burns), 166A Vision of Judgement (Southey), 419A Visit to London (Kilner), 563A Visit to the Bazaar (Harris), 562Visits to the Juvenile Library; or, Knowledge

Proved to be the Source of Happiness(Fenwick), 564

vital powers, 542–6volksgeist, 227Volney, C. F.The Ruins, or, A Survey of the Revolutions of

Empires, 643The Ruins, Or, Meditation on the Revolutions

of Empires: And the Law of Nature, 201Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet ), 218and Rousseau, 210

Voyage aux regions equinoxiales du nouveaucontinent (Humboldt), 549

Voyages and Travels (Pinkerton), 273

Wales, 63‘Walks around London’ (Hunt), 345Wallace, David, 11Walpole, Horace, 67, 261The Castle of Otranto, 61, 454, 466

Walsingham (Robinson), 451–4, 461The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties (Burney),

324war, 314–16, 316, 321–2, 324, 326, 328and domesticity, 500as drama and performance, 330heroic women in, 324and the home front, 319–20, 322and the imagination, 332–4and literary history, 316and literature, 316, 318and newspapers, 317

newspapers, 327pain of, 322–31, 324and reading, 316, 316–22and waiting, 318–20, 319and women and children, 322

war heroes, 325–9, 325–8, 327war mother, the, 325war systems, 331–4war widow, the, 322–4‘warm south’, the, 224–6, 241–5, 237see also Italy

Warton, Jane, 41Warton, JosephEssay on the Writing and Genius of Pope,

33Warton, Thomas, 61, 67The History of English Poetry, 52, 213

‘Washing Day’ (Barbauld), 310Watt, James, 548Watts, IsaacThe Improvement of the Mind, 107

Waverley (Scott), 124, 172–3, 206, 484, 485‘We Are Seven’ (Wordsworth), 639wealth, 89distribution of, 79, 88, 100land owners, 97urban, 163

The Wealth of Nations (Smith), 88, 111, 160,470

weather systems, 332–4Wedderburn, Robert, 336Wellbery, DavidNew History of German Literature, 11

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 319Welsh literary antiquities, 47Werner, Abraham‘Neptunist’ geology, 537

Wesley, John, 636Wesleyan Connexion, 636–7West End, 136, 137Whewell, William, 527Astronomy and General Physics, 540

Whitaker, John, 153White, GilbertA Natural History of Selbourne, 252

White, William HaleThe Revolution in Tanner’s Lane, 416

Whitehall, 143, 148White’s, 140Whytt, Robert, 29‘The Widow’, 322Wilberforce, William, 637–8Wild Irish Boy (Maturin), 306

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The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale(Owenson), 182, 184, 189, 303, 306,478–80, 483

Williams, Edward, 230Williams, Helen Maria, 358, 366–7, 372, 421‘The Bastille’, 359‘Farewell for Two Years to England’, 374and the French Revolution, 375and the Girondins, 374–6Julia, 359Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of

France, 375Letters from France, 366in Paris, 372and the publication of Louis XVI’s

correspondence, 372Williams, Ranti, 651Williams, Raymond, 583, 604on capitalism, 255The Country and the City, 249, 255Culture and Society, 582on Enclosure, 253, 254on ‘organic communities’, 255workers, 263

‘willing suspension of disbelief’Byron on, 663Coleridge on, 662Keats on, 663

Wilson, John, 122, 348, 415–16‘A Winter Day’, 297‘The Wish’ (Clare), 296, 312Wolcot, John, ‘Peter Pindar’, 135Wollstonecraft, Mary, 134, 361, 365–7, 372–4and a feminized East, 608in France, 366, 372and the French Revolution, 366An Historical and Moral View of the French

Revolution, 373and Imlay, 373and Islam, 607in London, 155–6and Oriental literature, 607–8and Orientalism, 606–11Original Stories From Real Life, 508Short Residence in Sweden, 279and style, 608, 610–11and travel, 512A Vindication of the Rights of Men, 373A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 211,

373, 606–11on Wordsworth, 412The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria, 138, 459,

464–5, 508

women, 214condition of, 279and public and private spheres, 311–13and public home, 303and sensibility, 26

women readersof novels, 40, 42

women writers, 4, 15, 508exclusion of, 123and memoirs, 464of novels, 383, 454, 516from the peripheries, 481–3playwrights, 495, 500poets, 3, 447–9and system, 123see also ‘Female Poetry’

women’s rights, 215, 362Wood, Robert, 609Woolf, Virginia, 5Wordsworth, Dorothy, 295

Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland, 282Wordsworth, William, 212, 248, 301, 412–14,

592, 622–4, 654‘Anticipation: October 1803’, 321and the apocalyptic landscape, 448and atheism, 420and ballads, 59‘The Brothers’, 265–8and children’s literature, 554‘The Complaint of the Forsaken Indian

Woman’, 283–6, 291and copyright, 388depictions of war, 320‘domestic’ encounters, 283and domesticity, 295Ecclesiastical Sketches, 630and Edinburgh booksellers, 410‘Essay, Supplementary to the Preface’, 413‘Essays upon Epitaphs’, 583and ethnographic evidence, 281–6Evening Walk, 265The Excursion, 413, 436, 439, 622–4, 629,

644and exotic travel, 282–3Five-Book Prelude, 275in France, 357‘Home at Grasmere’, 295and homes, 295–6and imagination, 657and ‘internal’ poetry, 413on Keats, 644and labour, 92and landscape, 614–15

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Wordsworth, William (cont.)‘Lines written a few miles above Tintern

Abbey’, 201in London, 155and lyric, 522Lyrical Ballads, 2, 119, 283, 385, 403, 407,

409–10, 413, 431, 612, 613Lyrical Ballads, Appendix, 54Lyrical Ballads, Preface, 56and Malthus, 80, 81and a ‘manly’ style, 612Michael, 296, 312, 409negative responses to, 215Ode (Ode: Intimations of Immortality from

Recollections of Early Childhood), 411,593

and Ossian, 63and the picturesque, 267Poems in Two Volumes, 104poems on cottage economy, 311‘Poems on the Naming of Places’,

269and poetry, 612–13poetry and self-control, 613–15and the poetry of place, 252The Prelude, 120, 211, 444, 554, 623–44on primitive society, 286and radicalism, 630‘real language of men’, 431The Recluse, 122and religion, 623–4, 630and revision, 525‘The Ruined Cottage’, 299‘Ruth’, 283on self-reflection, 330

‘Sonnet on the Extinction of the VenetianRepublic’, 238

on standard protocols, 409and style, 612–13and system, 119system of philosophy, 122‘The Thorn’, 519and the threat of invasion, 320Tintern Abbey, 433, 434, 615‘We Are Seven’, 639on weather systems, 333

working classes, 256and radicalism, 89, 97Sunday schools for, 639working as printers, 391

‘The Wounded Soldier’ (Merry), 323writers, 152–4and booksellers, 384divisions between, 152and excessive sensibility, 27and geographies, 13and political influence, 1, 6and self-consciousness, 453of systems, 109

The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria(Wollstonecraft), 138, 459, 464–5, 508

Yeats, W. B., 7, 203Young, Arthur, 209Tour of Ireland, 479

Young, EdwardConjectures on Original Composition, 591

‘Z’in Blackwood’s Magazine, 417, 419

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