Romanticism and the City

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: The Infernal and Celestial City of Romanticism

   1. The Infernal and Celestial City of Romanticism

      • Larry H. Peer

      Pages 1-5

3. Theories of the City

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Nerve Theory, Sensibility, and Romantic Metrosexuals

      • Michelle Faubert

      Pages 9-23

   3. Wordsworth’s Double-Take

      • William Galperin

      Pages 25-41

   4. John Galt, Happy Colonialist: The Case of “The Apostate; or, Atlantis Destroyed”

      • Jeffrey Cass

      Pages 43-53

   5. The Gothic Chapbook and the Urban Reader

      • Diane Long Hoeveler

      Pages 55-72

   6. Romantic Science and the City

      • Marilyn Gaull

      Pages 73-84

4. Continental Cities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Phenomenal Beauty: Rousseau in Venice

      • Nancy Yousef

      Pages 87-104

   3. E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Marketplace Vision of Berlin

      • Alexander Schlutz

      Pages 105-134

   4. Renzo in Milan

      • Ernesto Livorni

      Pages 135-155

   5. Rome Above Rome: Nikolai Gogol’s Romantic Vision of the Eternal City

      • Tatiana V. Barnett

      Pages 157-178

5. London

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. Wordsworth’s Invigorating Hell: London in Book 7 of the Prelude (1805)

      • Eugene Stelzig

      Pages 181-195

   3. Blake’s Golgonoosa: London and/as the Eternal City of Art

      • Mark Lussier

      Pages 197-207

   4. London’s Immortal Druggists: Pharmaceutical Science and Business in Romanticism

      • Thomas H. Schmid

      Pages 209-222

   5. Wordsworth’s “Illustrated Books and Newspapers” and Media of the City

      • Peter J. Manning

      Pages 223-240

   6. Babylon and Jerusalem on the Old Kent Road

      • Tim Fulford

      Pages 241-259

6. Back Matter

   Pages 261-283

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Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broad theoretical issues in European Romanticism at large.

• English literature
• Romanticism
• William Blake
• William Wordsworth
• Wordsworth
• British and Irish Literature

• Brigham Young University, USA

  Larry H. Peer

LARRY H. PEER Professor of Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University, USA. He is the Executive Director of the International Conference on Romanticism, editor of the journal Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism, and the author of numerous books and essays in the field of Romanticism studies.

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