Real Money and Romanticism

Shows how a new conception of money and intellectual property shaped Romantic conceptions of character, material culture, and labor.

Michael Gamer explodes the myth of the unworldly Romantic poet, showing writers' interest in public presence, and profit and loss.

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

This book analyses the language that ordinary people employ when discussing money, debt and financial behaviour. It documents and critiques this language from a

This critical anthology examines the place of the sublime in the cultural history of the late eighteenth century and Romantic period. Traditionally, the sublime

Ian Haywood explores the 'Golden Age' of caricature through the close reading of key, iconic prints by artists including James Gillray, George and Robert Cruiks

During the century after 1750, Great Britain absorbed much of the world's supply of gold into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers when it became the only major

The long-established association of Romanticism with youth has resulted in the early poems of the Lake Poets being considered the most significant. Tim Fulford

Vacillating between the longue durée and microhistory, between ideological critique and historical sympathy, between the contrary formalisms of close and dista