The Cambridge Cultural History: Volume 6, The Romantic Age in Britain  19826

Part I: The Cultural and Social Setting

• Romantics to Early Victorians  David Punter[rtoc]
  • Global and imperial influences
  • European influences
  • Context for the arts: patronage and the market
  • Print and the development of literacy
  • The Romantic experience
  • Heroes and hero-worship
  • Countryside: escape and preservation
  • Rediscovery and the remaking of history
  • Impact of scientific and technological development
  • Victorianism consolidating
  • Women and the arts
  • Forms of popular art
  • Arts and public life
  • Conclusion: themes and trends[/rtoc]

Part II: Studies in the individual arts

1. Edinburgh: City of Reason and Nature  Alexander Youngson
2. Literature  John Beer[rtoc]
   • Literature after 1785: genius, sensibility and ‘divine chit chat’
   • William Blake’s energy and vision
   • William Wordsworth: loss and consolation
   • Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s comprehensiveness
   • Jane Austen: pleasures and principles
   • William Hazlitt and the logic of liberty
   • John Keats’s disinterested intensities
   • Percy Bysshe Shelley’s search for correspondences
   • George Gordon Lord Byron: an identity of action
   • A tradition of the heart?
   • A new sense of the past?[/rtoc]
3. The Fine Arts  Michael Rosenthal[rtoc]
   • Circumstances of the times
   • Criticism in confusion
   • History painting
   • Contemporary subjects and genre
   • Sculpture
   • Portraiture
   • Landscape[/rtoc]
4. Graphic Satire and Illustration  John Harvey
5. Architecture  Alexandra Wedgwood[rtoc]
   • Overview of architects, building styles and types
   • Sir John Soane and John Nash
   • Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin
   • Engineers, iron and glass[/rtoc]
6. Music  H. C. Robbins Landon[rtoc]
   • Introduction
   • Handelian echoes
   • The rise of Haydn
   • Foreigners, great and small
   • British opera and vocal music
   • The piano: from Georgian salon to Victorian parlour
   • The Bach revival and the English cathedral tradition[/rtoc]
7. The Athenaeum  Alexandra Wedgwood
8. Enclosure and the English Hedgerow  Tom Williamson
9. The Applied Arts: Design, Craft and Trade  Pat Kirkham[rtoc]
   • Case studies: pottery, silver and silver plate, furniture and interior design
   • Design reform and the Great Exhibition[/rtoc]

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