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The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism’s revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment of the field and in the expansion of the Romantic canon. In this major new collection of eleven essays, critics reflect on New Historicism’s inheritance, its achievements and its limitations. Integrating a self-reflexive engagement with New Historicism’s "history" and detailed attention to a range of Romantic lives and literary texts, the collection offers a close-up view of Romanticism’s hybrid present, and a dynamic vision of its future.

This edited collection reflects on the continuing influence of New Historicism in Romantic Studies. Its eleven essays approach Romantic New Historicism ? past, present and future ? from a variety of angles in order to assess its vital contribution to our understanding, and revisioning, of the period c.1770?1830.

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List of Figures		ix
Acknowledgments		xi
Preface: "A Poem Should Be Equal To: / Not True"	Alan Liu; 	xiii
Introduction: Reflections on an Orthodoxy	Damian Walford Davies; 	1
1	The Incommensurable Value of Historicism	Tim Milnes; 	14
2	The Hair of Milton: Historicism and Literary History	Erik Gray; 	32
3	"In Embalmed Darkness": Keats, the Picturesque, and the Limits of Historicization	Kelly Grovier; 	43
4	Telling Lives to Children: Young Versus New Historicism in Little Arthur''s History of England	Michael Simpson; 	60
5	Whose History? My Place or Yours?: Republican Assumptions and Romantic Traditions	Kenneth R. Johnston; 	79
6	Overlooking History: The Case of John Thelwall	Judith Thompson; 	103
7	Byron''s Cain and the "History" of Cradle Songs	Damian Walford Davies; 	126
8	Romanticism, Feminism, History, Historicism: A Conversation	Anne K. Mellor; Susan J. Wolfson; 	143
9	Romanticism and the Feminist Uses of History	Gary Kelly; 	163
10	New Historicism, New Austen, New Romanticism	Robert Miles; 	182
11	Leigh Hunt and Romantic Biography	Nicholas Roe; 	203
Contributors		221
Index		225