Repossessing the Romantic Past

Introduction Paul Hamilton; Part I. Dissent and Opposition: 1. 'Severe contentions of friendship': Barbauld, conversation, and dispute Jon Mee; 2. Hazlitt's visionary London Kevin Gilmartin; 3. Shelley's republics Michael Rossington; 4. Memoirs of a dutiful niece: Lucy Aikin and literary reputation Anne Janowitz; 5. Holding Proteus: William Godwin in his letters Pamela Clemit; Part II. Reopening the Case of Edgeworth: 6. Edgeworth and Scott: the literature of reterritorialization James Chandler; 7. Maria Edgeworth and 'the light of nature': artifice, autonomy and anti-sectarianism in Practical Education (1798) Susan Manly; Part III. Different Directions: 8. Coleridge's stamina Paul Hamilton; 9. Elizabeth Hamilton's Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah and Romantic Orientalism Nigel Leask; 10. Jane Austen and the professional wife Janet Todd; 11. High instincts and real presences: two Romantic responses to the death of beauty Jerome McGann; Coda: Bibliography of the writings of Marilyn Butler Heather Glen.