Wild Romanticism

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Weakness and wildness in Wordsworth’s “The Brothers”
2 Wild freedom and careful wandering in the poetry of William Wordsworth and John Clare
3 Plumbing the depths of wildness: from the picturesque to John Clare
4 Savage, holy, enchanted: Coleridge in concert with the wild
5 Human grapes in the wine-presses: vegetable life and the violence of cultivation in Blake’s Milton
6 Wild plants and wild passions in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poems for Jane Williams
7 Wilding Europe and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
8 Hölderlin, Heidegger, and hyperobjects
9 “Almost Wild”: Jane Austen’s dirtiest of heroines
10 “Wild above rule or art”: volcanic luxuriance, subterranean terror, and the nature of gender in Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance
11 “A strange unearthly climate”: James Hogg’s tale of the Arctic wild
12 “Vast and irregular plains of ice”: wilderness as smooth space in Frankenstein
Index