Romantics Long List

The PhD Oral Examination

in the

Romantic Period

(updated July 2018)

 

The student should choose a significant body of work for each of the forty authors chosen. While the student may quite reasonably emphasize one or another category – poetry in this period is a dominant genre, for example – at least four authors from each of the four categories must be selected. The selection of Academic Criticism – in which category the student should list some half-dozen titles – provides guidance about the current state of scholarly thought about the work of the period.

 

 

           POETRY

Letitia Barbauld         

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

William Blake

Robert Burns

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Thomas Campbell

John Clare

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Cowper

George Crabbe

Erasmus Darwin

Felicia Hemans

Leigh Hunt

John Keats

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Walter Savage Landor

Thomas Moore

Hannah More

Mary Robinson

Walter Scott

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Charlotte Smith

Robert Southey

Mary Tighe

William Wordsworth

 

          FICTION

Jane Austen

Robert Bage

Fanny Burney

Charlotte Dacre

Maria Edgeworth

John Galt

William Godwin

Mary Hays

James Hogg

Elizabeth Inchbald

Lady Caroline Lamb

M. G. Lewis

Hannah More

Robert Charles Maturin

Amelia Opie

Thomas Love Peacock

Anne Radcliffe

Walter Scott

Mary Shelley

Charlotte Smith

Mary Wollstonecraft

 

          NON-FICTION PROSE

[NB: The student should be aware of the crucial importance of the periodical press in this period. One or more periodicals might therefore serve in place of an “author” in this category.]

 

Joanna Baillie

Jeremy Bentham

William Blake

Edmund Burke

S. T. Coleridge

Thomas DeQuincey

William Gifford

William Gilpin

William Godwin

William Hazlitt

William Hone

Leigh Hunt

Francis Jeffrey

John Keats

Richard Payne Knight

Charles Lamb

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Thomas Malthus
James Mill

Hannah More

Robert Owen

Thomas Paine

Thomas Love Peacock

Joseph Priestley

Walter Scott

P. B. Shelley

Robert Southey

Helen Maria Williams

Mary Wollstonecraft

Dorothy Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

 

DRAMA

 

Joanna Baillie           

Lord Byron

S. T. Coleridge

George Colman, the Younger

Felicia Hemans

Thomas Holcroft

Elizabeth Inchbald

M. G. Lewis

Robert Charles Maturin

William Moncrieff

P. B. Shelley

 

          ACADEMIC CRITICISM

 

Mary Favret, War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime (2009) 

Ian Duncan, Scott’s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (2007) 

Jeffrey Robinson, Unfettering Poetry: Fancy in British Romanticism (2006) 

William St Clair, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (2004) 

Adriana Craciun, Fatal Women of Romanticism (2002) 

Jerome McGann, Byron and Romanticism (2002) 

Michael Gamer, Romanticism and the Gothic (2000) 

Iain McCalman, ed., An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age (1999) 

James Chandler, England in 1819 (1998) 

Kate Trumpener, Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire (1997) 

Susan Wolfson, Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism (1997) 

Kevin Gilmartin, Print Politics (1996) 

Alan Richardson and Sonia Hofkosh, eds., Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture (1996) 

Duncan Wu, ed., Romanticism, A Critical Reader (1995) 

Alan Richardson, Literature, Education, and Romanticism (1994) 

Jonathan Bate, Romantic Ecology (1991) 

Gary Kelly, English Fiction of the Romantic Period (1989) 

Marlon Ross, The Contours of Masculine Desire (1989) 

Clifford Siskin, The Historicity of Romantic Discourse (1988) 

Jon Klancher, The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790-1832 (1987) 

Stuart Curran, Poetic Form and British Romanticism (1986) 

Tilottama Rajan, Dark Interpreter (1981) 

Northrop Frye, A Study of English Romanticism (1968) 

M. H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp (1953)