Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Romanticism offers guidance through the diversity of uses and meanings of the word 'romantic', not in terms of fixed definitions or essential qualifying characteristics, but rather in giving a helpful framework for questions and exploration. The focus throughout tends to be on the Western European cultural world of the latter half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th, as befits English literary study, but the context is far broader.

 

This book is part of a book series called Cambridge Contexts in Literature .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 130 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Cambridge University Press .

David Stevens is a subject tutor for the secondary English course at the University of Durham, UK.

This book has the following chapters: Introduction; 1. Approaching Romanticism; 2. Approaching the texts; 3. Texts and extracts; 4. Critical approaches; 5. How to write about Romanticism; 6. Resources.