000			01487cam a2200181ua 4500
020			_a0340806702
082			_a809.9145 _bBRE/R
100			_aBreen, Jennifer
100			_aNoble, Mary
245	0	0	_aRomantic literature
260			_aLondon _bArnold _c2002
300			_aix, 173p.
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aBrief, manageable, and affordable, the books in the Contexts series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, literary associations, and wider cultural climate of the main literary periods. As well as offering a background in relevant social history, these texts include selected extracts from original documents to give a full flavour of the period in question. The Romantic period was a turbulent time in which England changed from a primarily agricultural society to a modern industrial nation. The French Revolution, economic cycles of inflation and depression, and an enlarged and increasingly restless working class, created circumstances for profound social and political change. Looking at poetry and fiction against the "spirit of the age," this book discusses issues of science and art, psychology and the supernatural, revolutionary politics and social vision, satire and morality, and at the same time provides an introduction to the work of Austen, Blake, Burns, Byron, Keats, Radcliffe, Shelley, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and William Wordsworth.
650			_aRomantism
650	0		_aLiterature
942			_cBK
999			_c21116 _d21116