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1798: The Year of the Lyrical Ballads

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Richard Cronin

    1. University of Glasgow, Scotland

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Part of the book series: Romanticism in Perspective (ROPER)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Richard Cronin
    Pages 1-7

  3. The Year of the System

    • Clifford Siskin
    Pages 9-31

  4. Sexing the Critic: Mary Wollstonecraft at the Turn of the Century

    • Nicola Trott
    Pages 32-67

  5. ‘Dr’ Baillie

    • Dorothy McMillan
    Pages 68-92

  6. Malthus on the Road to Excess

    • Marilyn Gaull
    Pages 93-107

  7. Gebir and Jacobin Poetry

    • Richard Cronin
    Pages 108-132

  8. Humphry Davy: Poetry, Science and the Love of Light

    • Alice Jenkins
    Pages 133-150

  9. England and France in 1798: The Enlightenment, the Revolution and the Romantics

    • Peter Jimack
    Pages 151-169

  10. Coleridge, Schlegel and Schleiermacher: England, Germany (and Australia) in 1798

    • Stephen Prickett
    Pages 170-184

  11. ’Atmospheric Air Itself’: Medical Science, Politics and Poetry in Thelwall, Coleridge and Wordsworth

    • Nicholas Roe
    Pages 185-202

  12. Guardians and Watchful Powers: Literary Satire and Lyrical Ballads in 1798

    • Jane Stabler
    Pages 203-230

  13. Wordsworth’s ‘Leveling’ Muse in 1798

    • James A. W. Heffernan
    Pages 231-253

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 254-259
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About this book

1798 is a significant date in literary history: in that year the Lyrical Ballads were published anonymously by Joseph Cottle, the Bristol bookseller. But this is a volume not about the Lyrical Ballads , but about their year. It is an attempt to re-create and examine the literary culture of 1798, the culture on which Wordsworth and Coleridge decided to make their 'experiment'. It is a book in which Wordsworth and Coleridge vie for attention, as they did in 1798, with many other writers, including Schleiermacher, John Thelwall, Mary Hays, the Abbe Barruel, Walter Savage Landor, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Malthus, Joanna Baillie, George Canning, Robert Sothey and the Reverend T.J. Mathias. The chapters of this book work together to define a single historical moment that marked the beginning of romanticism in England.

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Richard Cronin's 1798: The Year of the Lyrical Ballards...cheerfully decenters the publication...whose bicentennial is its putative occasion...In a wide-ranging essay, Gaull brings a lively reading to Malthus's Essay that illuminates how its primary subject focuses a range of interests across the social and cultural landscape of 1798...Stabler wonders how to assay the parade of sufferers in Lyrical Ballards in the scale of sentiment and satire. It's a good question [a fresh and decidedly helpful approach] to a volume whose trickiest poems, such as Simon Lee, frame this dilemma: does this poet make ridiculous the figure for whom he is always exhorting our sympathy?' - Susan J. Wolfson, The Wordsworth Circle

'This is, altogether, a suggestive and diverse collection - and a strong inauguration for a hand-some new series, Romanticism in Perspective.' - Seamus Perry, Times Literary Supplement

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Glasgow, Scotland

    Richard Cronin

About the editor

MARILYN GAULL Professor of English, Temple University and New York University JAMES A. W. HEFFERNAN Professor of English, Dartmouth College ALICE JENKINS Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow PETER JIMACK Emeritus Professor of French, University of Stirling and Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow DOROTHY MCMILLAN Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow STEPHEN PRICKETT Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow NICHOLAS ROE Professor of English, University of St. Andrews CLIFFORD SISKIN Professor of English and Comparative Literature, State University of New York JANE STABLER Lecturer in English, University of Dundee.

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