Two Romanticisms and Other Essays

William Christie is Head of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University and an honorary research associate at the University of Sydney.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceChronology of the Romantic period1. Coleridge, Austen, and the two Romanticisms2. Wordsworth and the language of nature3. Crossing over: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the conversation poems4. ‘The burden of the mystery’: William Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’5. The search for meaning in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner6. Interpreting the politics of Pride and Prejudice7. ‘Such is modern fame’: the Byronic hero from Childe Harold to Don Juan8. Amelioration and madness in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Julian and Maddalo’9. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: a critical and cultural heritage10. Questing and questioning in the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ Epilogue: the Romantic imaginationFurther readingIndex

'Christie's distinction between the sensationalism of 'small "r" romanticism and the vaulting intellectual ambition of the 'capital "R" variant also allows beginners to ask questions about the relationship between popular literature and High Romanticism and explore their legacy in culture today.'