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abbeys aisling poetry, 200 converted into homes, 301–5 Alastor (Shelley), 519, 618 Abernethy, John, 545 Aldini, Giovanni, 544 Abolition movement, 363, 638 Aldridge, Ira Abrams, Meyer H., 201, 625, 626 in Othello, 502 The Mirror and the Lamp, 430 Alien and Sedition Acts, 221 Natural Supernaturalism, 431 allopatric theory, 516 The Absentee (Edgeworth), 307, 483 The Alphabet of Goody Two Shoes; By Learning absenteeism, 271, 307 Which, She Soon Got Rich (Harris), ‘According to the Mighty Working’ (Hardy), 570 658 America (Blake), 220 Ackermann, Rudolph American colonies Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, writings against the Crown, 360 Manufactures, Fashions and Politics, American First Continental Congress (1774), 341 360 Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland, American Indians, 195, 219 478 American Revolution, 199, 209, 219, 220, 315, Addison, Joseph 357–9, 359–60, 362 in praise of ‘Chevy Chase’, 52 influence on the French Revolution, 367–8, ‘Address to the Deil’ (Burns), 166 371 ‘Admiral Nelson’s Victory’ Americas, the, 218 London Times, 317–18 Analysis of Beauty (Hogarth), 259 Adorno, Theodor W. Analytic Review, 152 on lyric, 523 Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste The Advancement of Learning (Bacon), 441 (Knight), 258 Adventures of Ulysses (Lamb), 567 Analytical Review, 365 aesthetic value, 73, 96 ‘The Ancient Ballad of Chevy Chase’, 53 aesthetics, 1, 52, 432–4, 517 Ancient English Metrical Romances (Ritson), and lyric, 523 53 and politics, 610–11 Anglican Ascendancy, 199, 304, 306–7 and utilitarianism, 94 homes of, 307 Age of Lyric, 114 and Irish culture, 307 Age of Reason (Paine), 642 animal stories, 559 agriculture, 97, 98–9 animism, 269 Aiken, John, 634, 635 Anna St Ives (Holcroft), 463 Aikin, John, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld Annals of the Parish (Galt), 309 Evenings at Home, 559 Annals of Philosophy, 530 Aikin, Lucy, 421 anonymous novels, 388 Ainsi va Le Monde (Robinson), 364 Ansichten der Natur (Humboldt), 549

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anthropology, 276–7, 515 Astronomy and General Physics (Whewell), 540 and biology, 516 atmospheric electricity, 536 and collections, 525 ‘Au Lecteur’ (Baudelaire), 663 and natural language, 430–1 Auerbach, Nina, 319 ‘Anticipation: October 1803’ (Wordsworth), Austen, Jane, 3, 469, 471–2 321 and the Church of England, 627–8 anti-feminist sentiment, 56 and domestic space, 305 Anti-Jacobin Review, 543 on landscape connoisseurs, 260 The Antiquarian Repertory: a Miscellany, Mansfield Park, 271–2, 305 intended to preserve and illustrate Northanger Abbey, 304–5 several valuable Remains of Old Times. and the novel of manners, 461, 521 Adorned with elegant sculptures Persuasion, 318, 328 (Grose), 48 Pride and Prejudice, 306, 313, 319 antiquarianism, 45–52, 159, 484 Sense and Sensibility, 460 caricature and satire of, 48 Autobiography (Place), 335 and collaboration, 47 ‘Autumn’ (Keats), 443 and collections, 46–8, 49–52, 50 and ‘County Histories’, 47 Babbage, Charles, 393 and Enlightenment, 50 Bacon, Francis and forgery, 60–1 The Advancement of Learning, 441 and the fragment, 61 Novum Organum With Other Parts of The and interpretation, 50, 52 Great Instauration, 105–7 as national history, 47 Badcock, Samuel, 41 and politics, 45–7, 47, 49, 51 Baillie, Joanna, 498 and Unionism, 47 Ethwald, 324 apocalypse, 338, 448–9, 624, 626 and a ‘school of affectation’, 590 Appeal to the Men of Great Britain (Hays), A Series of Plays on the Passions, 500 119 ‘A Winter Day’, 297 archaeologists, 51 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 518 Arendt, Hannah, 6 ballads, 48, 49, 52–6, 57, 67 Ariosto, Ludovico anthologies of, 53 Orlando Furioso, 235–6 Enlightenment debate on, 58 aristocracy, 205 German, 214 feminisation of, 605 multiple ‘versions’ of, 57 and the Oriental, 605–6, 609 national, 55 and rioting in London, 149 and nostalgia, 58 Arminianism, 633 rhythms of, 55 Arnold, Matthew, 321, 583, 629 Scottish, 56 Culture and Anarchy, 8 semantic approach to, 57 Poems of Wordsworth, 622 syntactic approach to, 57 Arnold, Thomas, 649 Ballantyne’s Novelists’ Library (Scott), 475 art, 353, 582 Bank of England, 83 and loss, 238 Baptists, 633 and nature, 258 Barbauld, Anna Laetitia, 15, 16, 124, 363, 364, and the picturesque, 258 421, 475, 555, 568, 634 and reality, 610 The British Novelists; with an Essay, Prefaces symbolic, 517 Biographical and Critical, 475 Ascendancy homes, 307 and domestic employments, 310 and Oriental decorative motifs, 307 Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, 15, 218, 311, Assembly of Notables, 358 422, 447–8 Association for the Preservation of Liberty Lessons for Children from Three to Four Years and Property against Republicans Old, 571 and Levellers, 138 ‘Washing Day’, 310

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see also Aikin, John, and Anna Laetitia bibliomania, 338 Barbauld Bills of Mortality, 131 Barbauld, Rochemont, 635 Biographia Literaria (Coleridge), 427, 439, ‘The Bard’ (Gray), 64 444–6 Bardic Nationalism, 164 biographies, 10–11, 35, 589–93 bards, 63–5 biological determinism, 77 Barry, James, 184 biological evolution, 540–2 Bartholomew’s Fair (1817), 336 biology Bartman, Sarah (Hottentot Venus), 349 and anthropology, 516 ‘The Bastille’ (Williams), 359 and genre, 513–18, 525 Bastille, the, 358, 372 and literature, 525 fall of celebrated, 362 Blackwood, William, 179 imagery of, 371 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 162, 174, 175, storming of, 367–8 177, 348, 438, 445–7 Batten, Charles, 273 on novels, 476 Battle of the Nile (1798), 317–18 ‘Z’ in, 417, 419 Baudelaire, Charles Blair, Hugh, 30, 33, 164, 171 ‘Au Lecteur’, 663 ‘Critical Dissertation on the Poems of and the ‘hypocrite reader’, 654–5 Ossian’, 58 Baumgarten, Alexander, 432 defence of Ossian, 65, 164 Beattie, James, 43 Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 54 The Minstrel, 65 on private life, 32 Beddoes, Thomas, 542 and rhetorical devices of non-fiction, 31 Behn, Aphra, 219 Blake, William, 105, 158, 222, 263, 269, 391, Belcher, William 403, 449, 640–2, 656 Intellectual electricity, novum organum of America, 220 vision, and grand mystic secret, 112 and atheism, 420 Belfast Harp Festival (1792), 184 and counties, 250 Bell, Andrew and the countryside, 249–51, 260 and the monitorial system of education, and imagination, 641 596 innocence and experience, 445 Bell, John, 382 Jerusalem, 103, 255, 621, 641 The Poets of Great Britain, 382 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 118, 268, 642 Beloe, William, 153 Milton, 331, 332 ‘Belvoir Castle’ (Crabbe), 302 on Paine’s The Rights of Man, 370 Benbow, William, 387 Songs of Innocence and Experience, 554, 639 Bentham, Jeremy, 74, 82, 89, 581–2, 583, 593 vision of Britain, 251 and the monitorial system of education, on war heroes, 332 596 Bloom, Harold, 202, 437, 625 Panopticon writings, 596 Blumenbach, J. F., 515–16 and sentence meaning, 597 De generis varietati humani nativa, 515 Theory of Fictions, 597 Boatswain (Byron’s dog), 652–3 and transcendental systems, 599 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 234 and utilitarianism, 598 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 82, 319, 320 Beppo: A Venetian Story (Byron), 236 The Book of the Church (Southey), 630 Berkeley, Bishop George, 109 book trade Berman, Antoine, 512 changes to, 377–81 Berquin, Arnauld distribution networks, 378 Looking Glass for the Mind, 559 expansion of, 381–5 Betty, William Henry West (child actor), 496 increase in production, 36 Betty Brown; or, the St Giles’s Orange Girl in London, 162 (More), 136 retailing and wholesaling, 384 Bewell, Alan, 282 see also publishing

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booksellers, 151 debate with Paine, 370 promotions, 563 on Hastings, 272 sociability of, 384–5 on ‘landed interests’, 255, 257 Boulton, Matthew, 548 A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Bradley, F. H., 7 Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 94, Brand, John, 153–4 186–8, 533 Brewer, John, 163, 312 and political representation, 257 Brisman, Leslie, 645 on Price, 220 Britain, 205 Reflections on the Revolution in France, 208, 1688 Settlement, 360 358, 609, 610, 633 attitude to foreigners, 205 on Rousseau, 210 and empire, 272 Burney, Edward and the French Revolution, 226 illustrations, 458 and Greece, 230 Burney, Fanny imaginary geography of, 226 Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth, 137 and Italy, 230 Burney, Frances national poets of, 205 Cecilia, 456 and travel writing, 273–6 Evelina, 453, 454 see also England; Ireland; Scotland The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties, 324 British Critic, 152–4, 155, 158, 422–3 Burns, Robert, 159, 164 The British Novelists; with an Essay, Prefaces ‘Address to the Deil’, 166 Biographical and Critical (Barbauld), ‘The Cotter’s Saturday Night’, 297 475 ‘Epistle to John Lapraik’, 165 The British Theatre (Inchbald), 498 and lost origins, 166 Britishness, 185 Poems, Chiefly Written in the Scottish Dialect, Britton, John, 215 165 Bronze Age, 253 Tam O’Shanter, 48 Brooke, Henry ‘The Vision’, 166 The Fool of Quality, 30 Bush, John ‘The Brothers’ (Wordsworth), 265–8 Hibernia Curiosa, 187 Brothers, Richard, 640 Butler, Marilyn, 2, 211, 643 Brougham, Henry Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries, 432 Practical Observations upon the Education of Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 211, 301, 348, the People, 531 404–5, 419–20, 663 and public education initiatives, 531 Beppo: A Venetian Story, 236 Brown, Capability, 258 Cain, 519 Brown, Thomas and celebrity, 414–17 Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 225, 276, 321, Mind, 51 415–16, 658 Brownie of Bodsbeck (Hogg), 488 The Corsair, 405, 416 Bruce, James and Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 229 Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, on Dante, 233 286–9 and despair, 658 Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton, 390 devotion to animals, 652–3 Burdett, Sir Francis, 83 Don Juan, 104, 123, 237–8, 276, 326, 388, 417, Burgess, Miranda, 304–5 424, 440 Burke, Edmund, 2, 208, 276, 361, 547, 583 Don Juan, English cantos, 237 attack on French revolution, 86 and the East, 619 attack on Oriental style, 611 The Giaour, 619–20 the beautiful and the sublime, 259 and Greece, 230, 619 concept of sublimity, 71 on Greek men, 232 critiqued by Wollstonecraft and on Hemans, 659 Paine, 366 and Italy, 226, 229–30

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Marino Faliero, 242–3 celebrity, 414–17, 550 and Mediterranean travel, 227 Celticism, 188 memoirs, 385 Celts, 188 and modernity, 619 and domestic space, 303 neglect of his child, 229 and the empire, 195 on the new poets, 424–5 and the Enlightenment, 188, 194 ‘Ode on Venice’, 239 and Gothic domesticity, 303 Prometheus, 648–9 melancholia, 196, 197 ‘The Prophecy of Dante’, 233 and nostalgia, 194 rhetorical poetry of, 656 and the sublime, 186 satanic self-image, 644 and violence, 194 and Shelley, 230 The Cenci (Shelley), 242 translation of Pulci, 236 censorship, 138 on Venice, 238 in the theatre, 491, 492–3 see also Coetzee, J. M., Disgrace census of 1801, 131, 341 Byronic hero, the, 327 Central Park, New York, 261, 265 Chambers, Robert Cain (Byron), 519 Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Caledonian Mercury, 37 541–2 Calvinism, 633 Chambers’s Journal, 393 Cambridge History of English Literature, 5, 9–11 Chandler, James, 208, 277 contributors to, 16 chapbooks, 273, 553, 556–7, 558, 568–9 structure of chapters, 14 Charing Cross, 137, 143–8 volumes of, 1 ‘Charles Lamb’ (Hazlitt), 589 Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth (Burney), 137 Chatterton, Thomas Campbell, Thomas and inauthenticity, 61–3 Gertrude of Wyoming, 221–2 ‘The Ryse of Peyncteynge yn Engla˜de, Canning, George, 436 wroten bie T. Rowlie’, 60 Cannon, George, 387 The Chemist, 531 capitalism, 97, 99, 254–5 chemistry, 534 Capon, William, 497 Cheyne, George, 26 captivity narratives, 273 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron), 225, 276, Carlile, Richard, 387, 400, 531, 540, 545, 642 321, 415–16, 658 Carlyle, Thomas, 649 children’s books, 382 and the French Revolution, 9 children’s literature, 342, 553–5, 569 The French Revolution, 180 and agents of literacy, 573 On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in circulation novels, 559 History, 550 conflicts within, 560 Past and Present, 217 in dialogue form, 560 Sartor Resartus, 162, 180 girls’ stories, 560 ‘Signs of the Times’, 550 and juvenile libraries, 561–9, 576–7 on Voltaire, 218 mirroring adult novels, 559 Caroline of Brunswick (wife of George IV), old classics banished, 568 400 promoting children’s book shops, 576 Carter, Thomas, 398 and the psychological, 560 Cartwright, Major John, 83 readers of, 555 ‘Casabianca’ (Hemans), 324 and religion, 639 Cassirer, Ernst, 103, 106 travel writing, 275 The Castle of Otranto (Walpole), 61, 454, 466 chivalry, 65–7, 68 Castle Rackrent (Edgeworth), 185, 473–5 Church, John, 347 castles, 301–5 Church of England, 627–32 Catholicism, 242 Austen and, 627–8 Cecilia (Burney), 456 campaigning role of, 628–9

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Church of England (cont.) Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 71, 76, 86–7, 211, Coleridge and, 630–1 403, 411, 517, 553, 581–2, 592 Evangelicalism and, 637 Biographia Literaria, 427, 439, 444–6 as a ‘national church’, 631 and the Church of England, 630–1 patronage and influence of, 627 and a ‘Clerisy’, 632 citizenship, 606 and commercialization, 631 City Juvenile Library, 566–8 and Dante, 232 list of publications, 566 demand for ‘philosophical poem’ by self-advertisement of, 567 Wordsworth, 122 Clan-Albin: A National Tale (Johnstone), 482 ‘Fears in Solitude, Written in April 1798, Clare, John, 340 During the Alarm of an Invasion’, on Enclosure, 254 329–31 ‘I Am’, 616 The Friend, 328 Northampton Asylum, 371 on genius, 444 and the self, 615–16 and the Germans, 222 ‘The Wish’, 296, 312 in Italy, 228 Clarissa (Richardson), 456 ‘Kubla Khan’, 92 Clark, Steve labour theory of value, 90–2 on travel writing, 275 Lay Sermons, 98, 585, 596, 631 class, 419, 582 and Mediterranean travel, 227 and conflict, 88, 97 On the Constitution of Church and State, in the countryside, 256 631 productive, 97 and philosophy, 439, 442, 446 see also working class on poetic autonomy, 429, 444 A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue and publications on religion, 631–2 (Grose), 48 and radicalism, 630–2, 633 Classical Tour through Italy (Eustace), 228 The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, 413 clergymen, 152–4 ‘spectators and non-combatants’, 322 ‘Clerisy’, 632 ‘Time Real and Imaginary’, 524 climatic determinism, 278 and the United States of America, 220 closet theatre, 497, 499–500, 526, 586 and vital processes, 544 and domestic space, 499 and the ‘willing suspension of disbelief’, spaces of, 499–500 662 clubs, 348, 352 Collins, Wilkie, 397 of St James’s Street, 140 Colquhoun, Patrick, 131 Coates, Robert ‘The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan’ caricatures of, 338 (painting by Delacroix), 619 Cobbett, William, 83, 86, 263, 338, 401–2 Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Cockburn, Henry, 174 her Dog (Martin), 554 Cockney poets, 104, 122, 234–5, 348, 405, 417, commerce, 98–9, 175–7 646 Common Sense (Paine), 366, 369 Cockspur Street, 143 Company Parish of Clerks, 131 Coelebs in Search of a Wife (More), 480 ‘The Complaint of the Forsaken Indian Coetzee, J. M., Disgrace, 650 Woman’ (Wordsworth), 283–6, 291 Byronic hero in, 654 compositors, 394 Byronic opera in, 653–4 Conant, Martha, 607 Byronic themes in, 650, 651, 651–3, 652, 656 Condillac, Abbe´ de, 109 reviewers of, 651 ‘condition of England’ debate, 2, 217 and Romanticism, 650, 655, 657 Confessions of an English Opium Eater Colborn, Henry, 383 (De Quincey), 300 Coleman, Deirdre Confessions (Rousseau), 117 Romantic Colonization and British Anti- conjectural history, 23, 169–70, 171, 277, 280, 484 Slavery, 274 and Galt, 179

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and Scott, 173 as landscape, 247 see also stadial theory and literature, 246–9 Conjectures on Original Composition (Young), ‘museification’ of, 256 591 and nature, 260, 270 Connell, Philip, 80 and the past, 265 conservatism, 80 site of resistance, 247 Consolations in Travel (Davy), 548 transformations to, 251, 253, 265 Constable, Archibald, 386 unrest in, 251 Constable, John, 252 The Courier, 323 Constitutional Association for Opposing the courtship novels, 458, 560 Progress of Disloyal and Seditious Covent Garden, 139, 351, 492, 494, 497 Principles, 400 Old Price (OP) Riots, 351, 505 consumerism, 458–9 renovations to, 505 and conspicuous consumption, 339 Cowper, William and novels, 455–6 The Task, 314–16 rise of, 294 copyright, 58 Continuation of Early Lessons (Edgeworth), 555 Crabbe, George Cooper, James Fenimore, 219 ‘Belvoir Castle’, 302 copyright, 36, 38, 58, 63, 350, 379–81, 382, ‘The Poor and Their Dwellings’, 296 386–9, 454 on tenements, 298 see also piracy The Village, 254 Corinne, or Italy (de Stae¨l), 216, 227 Craig, William, 30 The Coronation Crane, R. S. Drury Lane theatre, 505 The Principles of Literary History, 10 Corporation Act (1661), 627, 635, 628 Creech, William, 386 Corresponding Societies, 369 ‘creolization’, 278 The Corsair (Byron), 405, 416 crimping houses, 146–8 Cottagers of Glenburnie (Hamilton), 481 attacks on, 147–8 cottages, 295–301, 297, 300 protests against, 147 cottage orne´e, 300–1 ‘Critical Dissertation on the Poems of culture and nature, 297 Ossian’ (Blair), 58 and the natural world, 296 Critical Review, 40, 41 and politics, 297 on The Man of Feeling, 457 and sociability, 296–7 criticism, 4, 30, 427–8, 474, 590, 593–4, 595 and travellers, 297 deconstructive, 8 and unemployment, 298 and genre, 518 ‘The Cotter’s Saturday Night’ (Burns), 297 in periodicals, 437 country, 247 and personal evaluation, 593 as nation, 248 and poetic autonomy, 435–42, 443 see also countryside, the of readers, 42–4 The Country and the City (Williams), 249, 255 and self-consciousness, 427 country house and self-regulation, 438 see stately homes as a supplement to poetry, 599 countryside, the, 81, 246, 249, 256, 262 Critique of Judgement (Kant), 432–3, 533 as an archive, 249 Croker, John Wilson and the city, 246, 248, 249 and Hunt, 447 and class, 256 crowds, 453–5, 459 and ‘country Whigs’, 259 Culloden, battle of, 194 difference of, 249 ‘cult of sexuality’, 643 feminized, 247 cultural assimilation, 164 as a foreign country, 264 cultural geography, 13 and history, 262, 266 cultural production, 611 labourers in, 263 cultural radicalism, 362

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cultural reform, 362 Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets, culture, 470, 480, 582 589–93 Culture and Anarchy (Arnold), 8 and travel writing, 274, 288 Culture and Society (Williams), 582 and Wordsworth, 589 Cumberland, Richard, 43 de Stae¨l, Germaine Corinne, or Italy, 216, 227 daily newspapers, 351, 392 De L’Allemagne, 227 Dame Partlet’s Farm (Harris Books), 570 On Germany, 216–17 Dangerous Connections (Laclos), 41 On Literature, 216 Dante, Alighieri, 232–4 death, 659 Divina Commedia, 233, 600 deconstruction, 433–5 ‘The Darkling Thrush’ (Hardy), 7 defamiliarization, 439 Darton, William, 563 A Defence of Poetry (Shelley), 232, 403, 423–5, Darton’s Juvenile Library, 563, 576 431, 439, 599 Darwin, Erasmus, 548 Defoe, Daniel, 453, 462 Davenant, William, 492 Deism, 642 Davis, Thomas, 200 Delacroix, Euge`ne Davy, Humphry, 529, 531, 534, 536, 542–3, ‘The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan’, 547–9 619 Consolations in Travel, 548 Della Cruscans, 231 Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, 530 Deluc, Jean Andre´ ‘Essay to Prove the Thinking Powers Elementary Treatise on Geology, 538 Depend on the Organization of the Deserted Village (Goldsmith), 254 Body’, 543 desire, 76, 461 and galvanic experiments, 548 Desmond (Smith), 452–4 lectures on geology, 539 determinism, 77 Salmonia, 548 biological, 77 and self-presentation, 547 climatic, 278 Day, Thomas Dialogues of Three Templars on Political Sandford and Merton, 560 Economy Chiefly in Relation to the De generis varietati humani nativa Principles of Mr. Ricardo (De (Blumenbach), 515 Quincey), 95 De L’Allemagne (de Stae¨l), 227 Dickens, Charles de Laplace, Pierre Simon Pickwick Papers, 393 Exposition du syste`m du monde, 540 A Dictionary of the English Language (Johnson), de Loutherbourg, Philippe Jacques, 497 65, 106 moving stage, 503 didacticism, 598 de Man, Paul, 433 Discourse on the Love of our Country (Price), De Quincey, Thomas, 95–7, 218, 586, 587, 592 220, 633 Confessions, 300 Discourses (Rousseau), 430 Dialogues of Three Templars on Political Disgrace (Coetzee), 650 Economy Chiefly in Relation to the Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit Principles of Mr. Ricardo, 95 (Priestley), 542 and Dove Cottage, 300 Dissent and emotional reaction, 585–7, 593 rational, 633–5, 635, 645 ‘The English Mail Coach’, 325 Dissenters, 436, 628, 633–5 and Lamb, 590 academies, 634 ‘literature of power’, 274–5, 288 ministers, 634 The Logic of Political Economy, 97, 95 women writers connected to, 635 ‘On Murder Considered as One of the Divina Commedia (Dante), 233, 600 Fine Arts’, 587–9 division of labour, 90, 111 ‘On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth’, ‘Domestic Affections’ (Hemans), 312 585, 587–9 domestic labour, 296, 310–11

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handloom weaving, 299 booksellers, 410 and political economy, 310 ‘The Modern Athens’, 174 domestic novels, 480–3 publishing in, 161, 175, 378, 380, 386 domestic space, 293 Edinburgh Review, 4, 161, 175, 436, 437, 474–5, and the Celtic Fringe, 303 538 and closet theatre, 499 and Jeffrey, 175–7, 280, 407, 425 of literary life, 294 on novels, 124–5, 476 privatization of, 311 scientific coverage, 530 domesticity, 210, 294, 488 Egan, Pierce and food, 571 Life in London, 342 forms of, 293 Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (Barbauld), 15, gendered, 310 218, 311, 422, 447–8 globalized, 291 Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue, 312 and warfare, 500 electricity Don Juan (Byron), 104, 123, 237–8, 276, 326, atmospheric, 536 388, 417, 424, 440 therapeutic application of, 543 Donaldson, Alexander, 380–1 electrochemistry, 539 Douglas, Aileen, 305 Elementary Treatise on Geology (Deluc), 538 Dove Cottage, 295, 300 Elements of Agricultural Chemistry (Davy), 530 Downing Street, 148 Elements of Criticism (Kames), 31, 288 Dr Graham’s Temple of Hymen, 503 Elgin Marbles, 238 drama Elizabeth de Bruce (Johnstone), 179 see theatre Elliotson, John, 545 Dramas for Children (Godwins), 567 Elliott, Mary Belson dramas of state, 503–6 Goody Two Shoes, Exemplifying the good dreams, 654 consequences of early attention to Drury Lane theatre, 139, 492, 494–7 learning and virtue, 570 auditorium, 494 Peggy and her Mammy, 575 Dryden, John, 403 Precept and Example; or, Midsummer du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 358 Holidays, 573, 576–7 Dublin Ellison, Robert, 505 city of shadows, 189 embryology, 525 piracy in, 386 and genre, 526 publishing in, 378, 386 of texts, 525 Dugdale, William, 387 The Emigrants (Imlay), 220 Dunlop, John, 475 ‘The Emigrants’ (Charlotte Smith), 321 ‘Dying Indian’ poems, 284 Emmet, Robert, 197 empire, 207, 611 Early Lessons (Edgeworth), 560 and the East, 207, 603 East India Company, 617 Nelson’s life and, 327 Eastlake, Lady Elizabeth, 291 and North America, 16 Eaton, Daniel Isaac enclosure, 253–4 edition of Age of Reason, 642 Enfield, William, 30, 43 Ecclesiastical Sketches (Wordsworth), 630 Engels, Friedrich, 416 Edgeworth, Maria, 4, 306 England The Absentee, 307, 483 and Englishness, 204, 205, 209, 213, Castle Rackrent, 185, 473–5 222–3 Continuation of Early Lessons, 555 interior spaces of, 331 Early Lessons, 560 transformation of, 256 Ennui, 483 at war, 316 memoirs, 463 war with France, 138, 226 Ormond, 189 see also London Edinburgh, 174 ‘England’s Dead’ (Hemans), 334

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English literature essays, 106–8, 112, 389, 584–5 and Brewer, 163 development of, 522 definition of, 7 Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects histories of, 435 (Hume), 110 novels, 475 Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of study of, 10 Scotland (Grant), 482 ‘The English Mail Coach’ (De Quincey), ‘Essays upon Epitaphs’ (Wordsworth), 583 325 ethnography, 47, 281, 292 English Revolution, 361 Ethwald (Baillie), 324 English Short Title Catalogue, 107 eudemonism, 82 Enlightenment, 101, 106, 113–14, 159–62, 199, Eustace, J. C. 662 Classical Tour through Italy, 228 and antiquarianism, 50 Evangelical activism, 638 and the Celtic periphery, 188, 194 critics of, 639 debate on ballads, 58 and women activists, 638 historiography, 49 Evangelical revival, 635–9 and history, 102 and public culture, 638 intellectuals, 161 and women, 637 and Ireland, 183–4 Evelina (Burney), 453, 454 and modernity, 102, 113–14, 160 Evening Walk (Wordsworth), 265 and Ossian, 169 Evenings at Home (Aikin and Barbauld), 559 and Romanticism, 12, 114–16, 119, 125, The Examiner, 346, 405, 417–19 621 exchange value, 88 the second Enlightenment, 114–16 The Excursion (Wordsworth), 413, 436, 439, and systems, 102–4, 104, 108–14 622–4, 629, 644 technology of, 102 exhibitions, 349 Ennui (Edgeworth), 483 exotic tales, 275 Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding exoticism, 603 (Hume), 117 and Oriental texts, 607 Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its and poetry, 281 Influence on Morals and Happiness exploration, 549 (Godwin), 75–7 ‘exploration establishment’, 273, 287, 275 The Entail (Galt), 179 utilitarian claims of, 288 epic, 508–11 Exposition du syste`m du monde (de Laplace), epigenesis, 514–16 540 ‘Epistle to John Lapraik’ (Burns), 165 epistolary novels, 513, 516, 520, 559, 560 fables, 288 ‘Essay, Supplementary to the Preface’ Fables in Verse (Newbery Books), 562 (Wordsworth), 413 The Fairing: or, a Golden Toy; for Children of all Essay on Antiquities (Kames), 46 sizes and denominations (Newbery An Essay on Criticism (Pope), 445–6 Books), 557 An Essay on Population (Malthus), 72, 74–82, 81 The Fall of Hyperion (Keats), 233, 508, 525 An Essay on Taste (Gerard), 25 fame, 591 Essay on the Diseases incident to literary persons family, 482–3, 483 (Tissot), 27 ‘Farewell for Two Years to England’ Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of (Williams), 374 the British Empire (Pasley), 329 fashion, 338–9, 458–9, 461 Essay on the Picturesque (Price), 258 news, 458 Essay on the Writing and Genius of Pope fashionable society, 451 (Warton), 33 ‘Fears in Solitude, Written in April 1798, ‘Essay to Prove the Thinking Powers During the Alarm of an Invasion’ Depend on the Organization of the (Coleridge), 329–31 Body’ (Davy), 543 ‘Female Poetry’, 405, 420–3, 425

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The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in the Arabella (Lennox), 65 Highlands of Scotland (Macpherson), feminism, 215 58–60 and criticism, 8 France, 206–8 Fenwick, Eliza Charter of Rights proposed, 368 Lessons for Children or, Rudiments of Good and Enlightenment, 208 Manners, Morals, and Humility, 559 and literary theory, 209 Life of Carlo, 565 national character of, 208, 210, 212 Mary and her Cat. In Words not exceeding radicals influenced by American Two Syllables, 575 constitutionalism, 360 Secrecy; of The Ruin on the Rock, 521 and Romanticism, 207 Visits to the Juvenile Library; or, Knowledge see also French Revolution Proved to be the Source of Happiness, Frankenstein (Shelley), 4, 298, 469, 536, 539, 564 544, 643 Ferguson, Adam, 278 Franklin, Benjamin, 536 History of Civil Society, 279 Fraser’s Magazine, 9 on North American Indians, 284 ‘free-and-easies’, 336 Ferriar, Dr. John, 544 French Revolution, 2, 175, 199, 206, 209, 223, Ferrier, Susan, 179 359, 362, 371–6 Marriage, 308, 482 and Carlyle, Thomas, 9 Ferris, Ina, 190 clubs, 369 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 217 and English radical writers, 364 fiction, 274, 473–4, 477 as a model for reform, 362 and historiography, 477 and Scotland, 161 and history, 6, 33–4, 171–4 storming of the Bastille, 367–8 popular, 383 The French Revolution (Carlyle), 180 prose, 519 Freud, Sigmund, 51, 587 see also novels The Friend (Coleridge), 328 Fierobe, Claude, 307 Frye, Northrop Fingal (Macpherson), 58 and sentimentalism, 22 Five-Book Prelude (Wordsworth), 275 ‘futurity’, 15 ‘The Flower of the Desert’ (Hemans), 286, 290 Gaelic culture, 184, 188, 192 food, 74, 570–1 Gaelic economy, 191 and domestic life, 571 Galt, John, 179 and eating disorders, 572 Annals of the Parish, 309 The Fool of Quality (Brooke), 30 and conjectural history, 179 foreigners, 205 The Entail, 179 forgery, 58, 60–1, 160, 167, 172–3 essays, 179 ‘Forget not the Field’ (Moore), 197 Ringan Gilhaize, 179 formalism, 432–3 Galvani, Luigi, 543 Forster, Georg, 549 Galway, 191 Forster, John Reinhold Gaston de Blondeville, or The court of Henry III. Observations made during a Voyage round the Keeping Festival in Ardenne: A Romance World, 534 (Radcliffe), 68 Forsyth, Joseph gender, 123, 294, 310, 522 Remarks on Antiquities, 228 and family politics, 241 fossils, 270 and genre, 514 Foucault, Michel, 461 ridicule of, 419 The Order of Things, 100 generation The Four Ages of Poetry (Peacock), 281, 423, 599 and Romanticism, 122–3 Fourdrinier, Henry, 392 generic mutation, 515 Fourdrinier, Seally, 392 Genet, Jean, 264–5

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genius, 546, 550–1, 591 Glorious Revolution, 358, 361 genius loci, 268–70 gods and geniuses, 268–70 Genlis, Ste´phanie-Fe´licite´ de Godwin, William, 74, 118, 154–5, 157, 477 Tales of the Castle, 41 biography of Wollstonecraft, 464 genres, 33, 108, 192, 507–11, 511–18, 518–21, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its 522–5, 525–6 Influence on Morals and Happiness, 75–7 and biology, 513–18 on imagination, 157 changes to, 14 and Lamb, 567 and criticism, 518 Lives of Edward and John Phillips, Nephews of deformalization of, 508 Milton, 513 diversification of, 507 in London, 155–6 of Enlightenment, 106 Mandeville, 521 and gender, 514 Pursuits of Literature, 157 hierarchy of, 507 St Leon, 462, 470, 478, 513 and hybridity, 508, 518 and street life in London, 156–7 and poetics of sympathy, 412 on ‘the man of talent’, 156–7 of poetry, 429 Things As They Are; or, The Adventures of system as, 110–11, 124–5 Caleb Williams, 105, 108, 118, 120, 129, theory of, 515 454, 461, 463, 464, 478 and travel, 512–13 Godwin, William, and Mary Jane Godwin, Geological Essays (Kirwan), 538 566 geological sublime, 534 as children’s publishers, 555 and Christian theology, 537–9 see also City Juvenile Library geology, 537–42, 539 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 547 ‘Neptunist’, 537 on Don Juan, 440 ‘Vulcanist’, 538 on genre, 509 George IV, 400 Torquato Tasso, 236 coronation of, 505 Goldsmith, Oliver, 34 divorce proceedings of, 506 Deserted Village, 254 Gerard, Alexander Goody Two Shoes, Exemplifying the good An Essay on Taste, 25 consequences of early attention to German women, 214 learning and virtue (Elliott), 570 Germany, 206–8, 207, 223 Gordimer, Nadine intellectuals, 226-7 criticism of Coetzee, 650 and literature, 214 Gordon Riots (1780), 138, 149 national character of, 212–18 Gothic novels, 293, 382, 465–9, 469–71, 526 and a national literary language, 212 characters in, 468 and nationhood, 226 containing poetry, 467–8 philosophy, 212, 215–18 epigraphs in, 468 secret society of, 206 provenance of ‘romances’, 468 theatre in, 206, 214 Gothic revival, 254, 301–5 Gertrude of Wyoming (Campbell), Grand Tour, 224, 512 221–2 Grant, Anne Gerusalemme Liberata (Tasso), 236 Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders The Giaour (Byron), 619–20 of Scotland, 482 Gillray, James ‘Graves of a Household’ (Hemans), 290 depictions of war, 326 Gray, Thomas Promis’d Horrors of the French Invasion, - or - ‘The Bard’, 64 Forcible Reason for negotiating a Greece, 617–19 Regicide Peace, 140–2 and Britain, 230, 245 Gilpin, William, 258, 533 effeminacy of men, 232 Girondins, 366, 374 identification with, 238 Glenarvon (Lamb), 521 and nationhood, 245

760

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Green, J. H., 517, 525 Life of Napoleon, 212 Griffith, Ralph ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’, 634 Monthly Review, 41 ‘On Court-Influence’, 645–6 Grimaldi, Joseph, 496 ‘On My First Acquaintance with Poets’, Grose, Francis 589–93 The Antiquarian Repertory: a Miscellany, ‘The Periodical Press’, 437–8 intended to preserve and illustrate and personal reaction, 593 several valuable Remains of Old Times. on poetry, 442 Adorned with elegant sculptures, 48 and satire, 410 A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, The Spirit of the Age, 594–8 48 as a theatre reviewer, 349–50 Guiccioli, Teresa, Countess on Wordsworth, 413 and Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 229 Hearne, Samuel in Coetzee’s Disgrace, 651 Journey from Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Guillory, John, 96–100 Ocean, 283–5 Hegel, G. W. F., 517, 525, 526 Habermas, Ju¨rgen, 6, 396 on genre, 509 and public opinion, 584 Helgerson, Richard, 204 Haitian Revolution, 363 Hellas (Shelley), 238, 618 Hamilton, Elizabeth Hellenism, 225, 618 Cottagers of Glenburnie, 481 Hellins, John, 153 Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, 513 Hemans, Felicia, 243, 290, 420, 422, 425, 448, Hardy, Thomas, 142–3 660 ‘According to the Mighty Working’, 658 ‘Casabianca’, 324 ‘The Darkling Thrush’, 7 on Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 658–62, 658 Harris, John, 554 and Christian redemption, 658–61 A Visit to the Bazaar, 562 ‘Domestic Affections’, 312 Harris Books ‘England’s Dead’, 334 and self-advertisement, 562–3 ‘The Flower of the Desert’, 286, 290 Harrison, James, 455 ‘Graves of a Household’, 290 Novelists Magazine (New Novelists ‘The Homes of England’, 290, 311 Magazine), 38 on literature, 661 Harry’s Holidays: or the Doings of One, Who Modern Greece, 238 Had Nothing to Do (Taylor), 555 poetry of, 291 Hartman, Geoffrey, 269, 625 Records of Women: With Other Poems, 244 Harvey, William, 514–15 Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy, 238 Hasted, Edward The Sceptic, 658–62 History and Topographical Survey of the self-exposure, 661 county of Kent, 252 ‘The Sicilian Captive’, 244 Hastings, Warren, 271, 278 ‘The Traveller at the Source of the Nile’, Hastings Trial, 504 286, 289 Hayes, Julie, 113 The Vespers of Palermo, 243–4 The Haymarket, 492 Herbert, Christopher, 470 Hays, Mary Herd, David, 56 Appeal to the Men of Great Britain, 119 manuscripts, 56 Memoirs of Emma Courtney, 464–5, 520 Herder, J. G. Victim of Prejudice, 519 theory of genre, 515 Hazlitt, William, 69, 405, 592, 595 heroic women, 324 and Baillie, 590 Hibernia Curiosa (Bush), 187 ‘Charles Lamb’, 589 Histoires des Re´publiques Italiennes (Sismondi), and Coleridge, 589 241 on Godwin, 477 An Historical and Moral View of the French on Kean, 350 Revolution (Wollstonecraft), 373

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historical novels, 69, 477, 484–7 Gothic, 293 alternative models of, 487–9 interior decoration, 295 and Scott, 124, 172–4, 332, 520 interiors of, 339, 353 and travel, 513 of Ireland, 306 Histories of More Children than One; Or private domestic domain, 294 Goodness Better than Beauty (Kilner), and tea-drinking, 309 573 tenements, 298 history use of, 293 and ‘antiquity’, 49–52 in Wordsworth’s poetry, 295–6 and the countryside, 262, 266 see also Ascendancy homes; cottages; Irish and Enlightenment, 102 stately homes; stately homes and fable, 288 ‘The Homes of England’ (Hemans), 290, 311 and fiction, 6, 33–4, 171–4 Hook, Theodore literary, 6, 10, 11, 11–12 and the ‘Berners Street Hoax’, 338 writing of, 477 Hope, Thomas see also conjectural history Household Furniture, 339 History and Topographical Survey of the County Hoskins, W. G. of Kent (Hasted), 252 The Making of the English Landscape, 253, History of Civil Society (Ferguson), 279 256 The History of English Poetry (Warton), 52, 213 Household Furniture (Hope), 339 History of Great Britain (Hume), 50 Houses of Parliament, 137 The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes House of Commons members, 137 (Newbery Books), 557 House of Lords members, 137 The History of Miss Temple (Rogers), 40 Howard, Luke, 535 History of the Druids (Toland), 188 Hulme, T. E., 621 hoaxes, 338 and Enlightenment, 622 Hodges, William human psychology, 581 drawings and paintings of, 534 humanism, 622 Hodgskin, Thomas, 531 Humboldt, Alexander von, 535, 549 Hogarth, William Ansichten der Natur, 549 Analysis of Beauty, 259 Personal Narrative of Travels to the Hogg, James, 166, 179 Equinoctial Regions of the New Brownie of Bodsbeck, 488 Continent, 549–50 known as ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’, 167 Voyage aux re´gions e´quinoxiales du nouveau Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, continent, 549 488 Hume, David, 22, 26, 109, 170–1 oral and folk idioms, 488–9 on ‘common life’, 171 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Justified Sinner, 180 117 storytelling, 179 Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 110 The Three Perils of Man: War, Women and History of Great Britain, 50 Witchcraft, 180 and system, 117–18 The Three Perils of Woman: Love, Leasing Treatise of Human Nature, 110, 117, 161, 171 and Jealousy, 180, 488 Hunt, John, 388 Hogle, Jerrold, 526 see also Hunt, Leigh, and John Hunt Holcroft, Thomas Hunt, Leigh, 104, 230, 233–6, 405–6, 417–19, Anna St Ives, 463 419 A Tale of Mystery, 504 circle of poets, 417 Hollier, Denis, 11 and Croker, 447 ‘Home at Grasmere’ (Wordsworth), 295 and Italianism, 234 homes, 293, 298, 353 Literary Pocket Book, 344–5 abbeys converted into, 301–5 ‘The Sight of Shops’, 345 of England, 293–4 Stories of the Italian Poets, 234

762

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The Story of Rimini, 234 interiority, 331 theatre reviewer, 349 internalization, 202 on translations of Italian works, 234 intertextuality, 436, 479, 508 ‘Walks around London’, 345 Ireland, 182–6, 183, 200–1, 479 Hunt, Leigh, and John Hunt and Anglican Ascendancy, 199, 304, 306–7, The Examiner, 346 307 Hunt family, 230 and Britishness, 185 Hunter, John, 516 and Enlightenment, 183–4 Hurd, Richard introduction of letters, 183 on the Faery Queene, 66 language of, 185 Letters on Chivalry and Romance, 66–7 literature of, 4 Hussey, Christopher, 257 ‘myth of the West’, 182 Hutton, James and nationalism, 185 The Theory of the Earth, 538 poets of, 3 ‘Vulcanist’ geology, 538–9 political realities of, 193 hybridity, 515 rebellion in, 193, 196, 206 and genre, 518 rebellion of 1798, 195 national, 482 see also Dublin ‘Hymn to Pan’ (Keats), 644 Irish Melodies (Moore), 195 Hyperion (Keats), 442 Irish stately homes, 306, 307 hypocrisy, 655–6 and the excesses of Orientalism, 307–9 Irish tour, 479 ‘I Am’ (Clare), 616 irony, 440, 444 identity, 272, 481 double irony, 443 Scottish national, 163 Irving, Edward, 347 Illuminati, 206 Isabella: or, the Pot of Basil (Keats), 235, 444 Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory (Playfair), ‘isms’, 8–9 538 The Italian (Radcliffe), 231 imagination, 171, 288, 654, 656, 658, 662 Italian Opera House, 351 apocalyptic, 626 Italy, 238, 240–5, 245 Blake and, 641 antiheroes, 236 and reason, 161 and Britain, 230, 245 and representation, 582, 588, 599 effeminacy of men, 231 and romance, 69 feminization of, 231–2 Wordsworthian, 657 insurrections, 241 Imlay, Gilbert, 366, 373 literature of, 225 The Emigrants, 220 masculine tradition, 241 immanentists, 542 regendering of, 232–4, 238 Immerwahr, Raymond, 186 tragedies, 240 imperialism, 604, 614 and poetry, 614 Jacobin, 198–203 The Improvement of the Mind (Watts), 107 Jacobite, 198–203 In Memoriam (Tennyson), 441 James, Robert Inchbald, Elizabeth, 498 Medicinal Dictionary, 27 The British Theatre, 498 Jameson, Fredric, 68 A Simple Story, 136, 137, 461 Janaway, James individualism, 604, 605, 611 A Token for Children: Being An Exact Account and Orientalism, 604 of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary industrial revolution, 299 Lives, and Joyful Deaths of several young industrialism, 97, 254–5, 582 Children, 556 inheritance, 482–3, 483 Jefferson, Thomas, 195, 357–9, 363, 368 Intellectual electricity, novum organum of vision, letters on the French Revolution, 368 and grand mystic secret (Belcher), 112 and Paine, 366

763

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Jefferson, Thomas (cont.) Critique of Judgement, 432–3, 533 in Paris, 367–8 responses to, 215 President of the United States of America, Kean, Edmund, 350, 496, 501 370 Keats, John, 62, 235, 344, 405–7, 417–19, 445–7, Jeffrey, Francis, 104, 121, 175, 177, 415, 475, 646 663 on Byron, 405, 416 and art criticism, 446 and the Edinburgh Review, 4, 280–1 ‘Autumn’, 443 on ‘Female Poetry’, 405, 425 and Boccaccio, 235 on literary fame, 425 on Dante, 233 on the new poetry, 407–12 on empire, 616–17 ‘On Literature, considered in its The Fall of Hyperion, 233, 508, 525 relationship to social institutions’, feminization of, 447 176 ‘Hymn to Pan’, 644 on Wordsworth, 413 Hyperion, 442 Jenner, Edward, 548 Isabella: or, the Pot of Basil, 235, 444 Jerusalem (Blake), 103, 255, 621, 641 ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad’, 55 Joan of Arc, 327 letters of, 443 Johnson, Joseph, 365, 642 mythology of, 645 publisher of Castle Rackrent, 473 ‘Ode on Melancholy’, 523 Johnson, Samuel, 154–5, 157, 171, 554 ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, 224, 225, 244 A Dictionary of the English Language, 65, 106 ‘On a Dream’, 234 and orality, 60 ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Johnstone, Christian Isobel Homer’, 616–17 Clan-Albin: A National Tale, 482 Poems, 418 Elizabeth de Bruce, 179 and poetic autonomy, 442–4 Jones, Edward and the self, 616 Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Sleep and Poetry, 406, 508, 617 Bards, Preserved by Tradition, and on war, 321 Authentic Manuscripts, From Remote Kelly, Kevin, 120 Antiquity, 63 Kemble, John, 351, 496, 501 Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and Kenilworth (Scott), 303 the Arts, 530 Killigrew, Thomas, 492 journalism, 349–51 Kilner, Dorothy, 565 writing on London, 342, 344–5 Histories of More Children than One; Or Journey from Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Goodness Better than Beauty, 573 Ocean (Hearne), 283–5 The Village School, 573 Joyce, James, 199 Kilner, Elizabeth Julia (Williams), 359 A Visit to London, 563 Julia de Roubigne (Mackenzie), 457 Kilner, Mary Ann, 565 Julian and Maddalo; A Conversation (Shelley), Kincaid, Alexander, 380 236 King Alfred (Thomson), 46 juvenile drama, 502 King’s Arms, 147–8 juvenile libraries, 574, 576–7 Kirwan, Richard at St Paul’s Churchyard, 561–9 Geological Essays, 538 see also City Juvenile Library; Darton’s Kittler, Friedrich, 573 Juvenile Library; Newbery’s juvenile Klancher, Jon library oral performance, 57 Knight, Richard Payne Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 28, 33 Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Elements of Criticism, 31, 288 Taste, 258 Essay on Antiquities, 46 Knights Companions of the Cape, 56 Kant, Immanuel, 101, 114, 217, 218, 515, 547, Knox, Vicesimus, 43 585 and travel writing, 275

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Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand von, and anthropology, 430–1 217 apocalyptic, 448–9 plays by, 214 the origin of, 431 Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth poetic, 434 (re)education of mothers, 573 politics of, 408 Kristeva, Julia, 508 systematic accounts of, 584 ‘Kubla Khan’ (Coleridge), 92 Lawrence, William, 545 Lectures on Physiology, 388 ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad’ (Keats), The Lay of the Last Minstrel (Scott), 326 55 Lay Sermons (Coleridge), 98, 585, 596, 631 labour, 88–90, 97, 99 Leask, Nigel, 605, 608 division of, 90, 111 Lectures on Physiology (Lawrence), 388 domestic, 296, 310–11 Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres handloom weaving, 299 (Blair), 54 and political economy, 310 Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human produce of, 89 Mind (Brown), 51 productive, 90–2, 310 Lee, Sophia and Smith, 89 The Recess; or, A Tale of Other Times, 466, theory of value, 88–90, 93 468 unproductive, 90–2 Lee Priory press, 391 Lackington, James Leerssen, Joep, 191 remaindering, 384 Lennox, Charlotte Laclos, Pierre Ambroise Franc¸ois The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Choderlos de Arabella, 65 Dangerous Connections, 41 Lessons for Children or, Rudiments of Good Lady Morgan Manners, Morals, and Humility see Owenson, Sydney (Lady Morgan) (Fenwick), 559 Lafayette, Marquis de, 367–8, 368 Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of Lake Methodists, 407 France (Williams), 375 Lake Poets, 4, 80, 104, 122, 234, 295, 629, 644, Letters from France (Williams), 366 646 Letters of a Hindoo Rajah (Hamilton), 513 and the new poetry, 405, 406–12, 423 Letters on Chivalry and Romance (Hurd), 66–7 Lamb, Caroline Lewis, Matthew Glenarvon, 521 The Monk, 461 Lamb, Charles Libel Act (1792), 399 Adventures of Ulysses, 567 The Liberal, 230 on Barbauld, 568 libraries, 396, 453, 451, 455 ‘romantic reading’ of Bruce, 287–9 Life in London (Egan), 342 Lancaster, Joseph Life of Carlo (Fenwick), 565 monitorial system of education, 596 Life of Napoleon (Hazlitt), 212 Landon, Letitia Elizabeth, 420, 448, 658 Life of Nelson (Southey), 327–8 Landor, W. S., 228 Linebaugh, Peter, 363 landscape, 185, 186–8, 200–1, 247, 253, 256, 261, ‘Lines written a few miles above Tintern 267, 614–15 Abbey’ (Wordsworth), 201 and forgetting, 267 ‘Lines Written among the Euganean Hills’ and history, 253, 268 (Shelley), 239 illegibility of, 266–7 literacy, 556, 572, 575 London suburban, 345 agents of, 573 painting, 246 invention of letters, 183 and the poor, 262 Irish, 183 ‘reading’ of, 266 oedipally charged, 573 Lane, William, 383, 466 in Scotland, 163 language struggle for, 573

765

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Literary and Philosophical Societies, 530 developments in, 135 literary clubs, 352, 396 a divided city, 136–8, 136, 138–49, 139–49 literary communities, 294 extent of, 129, 130, 134–6, 134–6 literary culture guidebooks, 342 and Scotland, 159 illustrations of, 335–8, 341, 342–4 literary history, 6, 10, 11, 11–12, 316 inner city, 138 Literary Pocket Book (Hunt), 344–5 journalism, 342, 344–5, 349–51 literary reclamations, 161 literary representations of, 130, 157, 342 literary revivals, 161 mapping of, 134 literary systems, 36, 38 and the metropolitan intellectual, 158 literary theory mixed neighbourhoods, 136 French, 209 non-market formations, 346–7 literary value, 274 and politics, 346 literature, 4, 7, 214 the poor in, 142–4, 148–9, 336 annuals, 420–1 populations of, 129, 130–4, 131, 132, 341 anthologies and literary histories of, 9 publishing in, 350–1, 378, 380, 381 biography, 10–11 and religion, 346–7 canon of, 38–9, 274, 382, 624 salon culture, 348 classic and romantic, 2 shows and exhibitions, 345 elevation of, 388 space and buildings, 345 and form, 106 street culture, 347–8 intensity of, 9 suburbs, 135, 345 ‘minor literature’, 511 tourist guide to, 343–4 naming of period, 7 ‘Walks around London’, 344 of the new sciences, 527–8 see also Regency London; theatre and Orientalism, 602 London Corresponding Society, 139, 142, and originality, 590–1 150–1 and philosophy, 427 London Magazine, 438, 568 schools of, 104, 121–2 London printers, booksellers and stationers vade and self-consciousness, 427 mecum (Pendred), 379 and sensibility, 39 London Times sentimental, 29–32, 30–3, 33–6, 39, 40 ‘Admiral Nelson’s Victory’, 317–18 technology of, 29–36, 114 Longman, 383 and travel writing, 272 Looking Glass for the Mind (Newbery), 559, see also children’s literature; novels; 562 poetry; travel writing Louis XVI, 357, 372 ‘The Literature of the Nursery’ (anon), 568 Loutherbourg, Philippe de, 251 A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (Newbery Books), L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 363 556, 558 Lovejoy, A. O., 624 Liu, Alan, 626 Luka´cs, Georg, 331, 518–19, 521, 524 Lives of Edward and John Phillips, Nephews of luxury, 278, 299 Milton (Godwin), 513 lyric, 508–11, 522–4 Locke, John, 89 and aesthetic ideology, 523 Lockhart, John Gibson, 176, 348, 386, 438 and poetry, 523 Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk, 177–8 Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth), 2, 119, 283, 385, The Logic of Political Economy (De Quincey), 403, 407, 409–10, 413, 431, 612, 613 97, 95 Lyrical Ballads, Appendix (Wordsworth), 54 London, 129–38, 332, 337, 338–41, 339–40, 341, Lyrical Ballads, Preface (Wordsworth), 56 345 Lytton, Bulwer (Lytton Bulwer), 212 book piracy in, 387–9 book trade, 162 Macartney, George, Lord, 272 built-up areas, 134–6 Macbeth (Shakespeare), 588 cultural markets in, 345–6, 348–51 McCalman, Iain, 640

766

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McDonaugh, Josephine materialism, 209, 540–2, 544–6 on Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, 311 Enlightenment, 208 McGann, Jerome, 250, 625 maternity, 483 on Ossian, 30 Mathias, T. J., 157 The Romantic Ideology, 433, 584 Mathilda (Shelley), 523 Mackenzie, Henry Maturin, Charles, 306 Julia de Roubigne, 457 The Milesian Chief, 64, 190, 194, 197, 198, The Man of Feeling, 61, 456, 457 201, 202, 487 McKeon, Michael, 274 on stately homes in Ireland, 307 Mackintosh, James, 33 Wild Irish Boy, 306 Macpherson, James, 34, 63, 164, 178, 182, Maurice, Thomas, 153 195–6, 430 mechanics’ institutes, 531 Fingal, 58 Medicinal Dictionary (James), 27 forgeries, 160 Medieval period, 253 Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in melancholy, 168, 201 the Highlands of Scotland, 58–60 see also nostalgia Ossian, 30 Melincourt (Peacock), 56 Ossian scandal, 167, 172–3 melodrama, 504 Poems of Ossian, 58, 159 memoirs, 35, 520 Temora, 58 memoir-novels, 462–5 The Making of the English Landscape (Hoskins), Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner 253, 256 (Hogg), 488 The Making of the English Working Class Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Hays), 464–5, (Thompson), 256 520 Malthus, Thomas Robert, 84 Memoirs of the life, character and writings of the An Essay on Population, 72, 74–82, 81 late reverend Philip Doddridge (Orton), and population, 81, 112–13 35 and Southey, 79 Merry, Robert wartime writings, 87 ‘The Wounded Soldier’, 323 Man. A Paper for Ennobling the Species, 29 metamorphosis, 514–16 The Man of Feeling (Mackenzie), 61, 456, meteorological sublime, 534–7 457 Methodism, 636–7 Mandeville (Godwin), 521 metropolitan sublime, 129 Mangan, James Clarence, 199, 200 Mezciems, Jenny, 275 Manning, Peter, 416 Michael (Wordsworth), 296, 312, 409 Mansfield Park (Austen), 271–2, 305 The Milesian Chief (Maturin), 64, 190, 194, 197, Marcus, Sharon, 312 198, 201, 202, 487 Marino Faliero (Byron), 242–3 Mill, John Stuart, 11, 96, 581–2, 583 market value, 95–7 Millar, Andrew, 380 Marriage (Ferrier), 308, 482 Millar, John, 277, 278 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Blake), 118, millenarianism, 338 268, 642 see also apocalypse Marshall, Alfred, 100 Millgate, Jane, 476 Marshall, John, 569 Milton (Blake), 331, 332 Martin, Benjamin, 110 Milton, John, 259 Martin, Sarah Catherine Paradise Lost, 599, 622 Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Minerva Press, 383, 466, 474, 478 her Dog, 554 ‘minor literature’, 511 Marxism, 435 The Minstrel (Beattie), 65 Mary and her Cat. In Words not exceeding Two Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (Scott), 54, 57 Syllables (Fenwick), 575 The Mirror and the Lamp (Abrams), 430 masculinity, 606, 609 misogyny, 56 mass culture, 454 Modern Greece (Hemans), 238

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Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic and hybridity, 482 Tradition (Rosenblum), 186 national culture modernity, 3, 5, 6, 118, 168–9, 190 of Scotland, 174 and Enlightenment, 102, 113–14, 160 and Scott, Sir Walter, 177 and nervous diseases, 27–8 national debt, 82–7 and Orientalism, 604 national economy, 185 and Scotland, 160 national history and sensibility, 26–9 antiquarianism as, 47 Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord, 430 narrative of, 169 The Monk (Lewis), 461 national identities, 301–2, 308 monotheism, 269 national liberation movements, 211 Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat national literary system, 36 The Spirit of the Laws, 278 national literature, 389 Monthly Magazine, 635 national novels, 475, 477 Monthly Review, 41 see also national tales Moore, Margaret King (Lady Mount Cashell) national representation, 490 Stories of Old Daniel, 574 national tales, 190, 478–81 Moore, Thomas, 385 Anglo-Irish, 479, 483 ‘Forget not the Field’, 197 and Gaelic culture, 192 Irish Melodies, 195 as Irish Gothic, 487 in the United States of America, 221 nationalism, 198–203, 204 morality, 21–2, 329–31 Irish, 185 moral tales, 560 localized, 330 More, Hannah, 481, 637, 639 Native Americans Betty Brown; or, the St Giles’s Orange Girl, ‘Dying Indian’ poems, 284 136 stoicism, 284–5 Coelebs in Search of a Wife, 480 natural history, 517, 525 ‘Slavery’, 638 A Natural History of Selbourne (White), 252 Morgante Maggiori (Pulci), 236 natural philosophy, 547 The Morning Chronicle, 323 natural sciences, 278 The Morning Post, 322 natural sublime, 528, 532–7 Morrison, Paul, 305 and the deity, 537 Moxon, Edward, 389 Natural Supernaturalism (Abrams), 431 Mullan, John, 35, 39 nature, 170, 255, 258, 270 Murphy, Arthur, 214 see also landscape Murray, John, 383, 385, 388 ‘nebular hypothesis’, 539 Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, ‘negative value’, 96 Preserved by Tradition, and Authentic Nelson, Horatio, Admiral Lord, 327–8 Manuscripts, From Remote Antiquity and Emma Hamilton, 329 (Jones), 63 nervous system, 26, 542–3 ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’ (Hazlitt), diseases of, 27–8 634 theory of, 24 The Mysteries of Udolpho (Radcliffe), 302, 319, New Criticism, 509 467 New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and myth, 168 Modern of the Canting Crew, A, 45 New Historicism, 8, 294, 434, 435, 625 Napoleon, 319, 320 New History of German Literature (Wellbery), Napoleonic wars, 82 11 Nares, Robert, 152–4 new sciences Nash, John disciplines of, 527 ‘Line of Separation’, 136 literature of, 527–8 nation, the, 204–8, 483 see also public science consciousness of, 204 Newbery, Elizabeth, 559, 575

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Looking Glass for the Mind, 562 courtship novels, 458, 560 Newbery, John, 561 domestic, 480–3 and children’s literature, 554–5 domestic novels, 480–3 Newbery Books, 554–5, 567, 568 English, 475 commercialization of children’s literature, epistolary novels, 513, 516, 520, 559, 560 561 as a form of epic, 509 Fables in Verse, 562 forms of, 389, 454, 459 The Fairing: or, a Golden Toy; for Children of and lyric, 510–11 all sizes and denominations, 557 and the marriage plot, 194 The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, 557 memoir-novels, 462–5 A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, 556, 558 and modernity, 452–3 mass consumption of, 558–9 narrative structure of, 470 self-advertisement in, 558, 561, 563 national novels, 475, 516 at St Paul’s Churchyard, 556–9 and newspapers, 318 successors to, 561 and poetry, 519, 519–20 Thousand and One Nights, 559 political novels, 454 Newbery’s juvenile library, 556–9, 558, 563 a public genre, 477–8 Newey, Vincent, 617 quest romance, 66–7, 509 newspapers, 36, 151, 316–19, 379 repackaging of, 452 advertising in, 151 reprinting of, 395 content of, 37 rise of, 452 daily, 351, 392 and romance, 167, 191 feature articles, 152 romantic, 68 and war, 322 and the scene of reading, 476 and the war widow, 322–4 scholarly apparatus of, 192 Newton, Sir Isaac, 109 in school, 553 generic innovations, 111 sensation novels, 519 on optics, 111 sentimental novels, 456, 459 Newtonianism, 108 serialization of, 393 Nichol, John Pringle themes of, 454 Views of the Architecture of the Heavens, 540 transformation of, 3–4, 451–5 Nicholson, William women readers of, 40, 42 Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and see also Gothic novels; historical novels the Arts, 530 ‘Novelties for the Nursery’, 554 nitrous oxide experiments, 542–3 Novum Organum With Other Parts of The Great Noble, Francis Instauration (Bacon), 105–7 reprints, 453 nursery rhymes, 574 Northanger Abbey (Austen), 304–5 ‘northern genius’ theory, 214 The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys (Owenson), Norton Anthology of English Literature, 10 191, 194, 198, 478, 483 nostalgia, 61, 194, 195, 290 Observations made during a Voyage round the novel of manners, 456–61, 458–9, 461, 513, 521 World (Forster), 534 Novelists Magazine (New Novelists Magazine), O’Byrne, Alison, 130 38, 455, 458 O’Carolan, Turlough, 184 installment plan, 455 Ode (Ode: Intimations of Immortality from novels, 4, 40–4, 68, 124–5, 378, 389, 518 Recollections of Early Childhood) anonymous, 388 (Wordsworth), 411, 593 for children, 555 ‘Ode on Melancholy’ (Keats), 523 circulation novels, 559 ‘Ode on Venice’ (Byron), 239 collections of, 475 ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (Keats), 224, 225, 244 commercial, 378 ‘Ode to Naples’ (Shelley), 239 and consumerism, 455–6 O’Donnel (Owenson), 187, 192, 483 of courtship, 458, 560 Old Dissent, 633

769

Index

The Old English Baron (Reeve), 68 and individualism, 604 Old Mortality (Scott), 302 and mythmaking, 602 Old Price (OP) Riots, 351, 505 and poetry, 605, 615 old wives’ tales, 575–6 and political radicalism, 605–12 Olmsted, Frederick Law, 261 and style, 606–12 O’Longain, Micheal Og, 200 and the sublime, 603 ‘On a Dream’ (Keats), 234 Original Stories From Real Life ‘On Court-Influence’ (Hazlitt), 645–6 (Wollstonecraft), 508 ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ originality, 590–1 (Keats), 616–17 origins, 169 On Germany (de Stae¨l), 216–17 Orlando Furioso (Ariosto), 235–6 On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in Ormond (Edgeworth), 189 History (Carlyle), 550 Orton, Job On Literature (de Stae¨l), 216 Memoirs of the life, character and writings ‘On Literature, considered in its relationship of the late reverend Philip Doddridge, 35 to social institutions’ (Jeffrey), 176 Oscar (Irish hero), 182 ‘On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Ossian, 30, 58–60, 63, 160, 178, 195–6, 430 Arts’ (De Quincey), 587–9 controversy over, 167, 172–3, 182 ‘On My First Acquaintance with Poets’ defence of, 164 (Hazlitt), 589–93 and Enlightenment, 169 On the Constitution of Church and State otherness, 603 (Coleridge), 631 the other and self, 603–5 ‘On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth’ Owenson, Robert, 185 (De Quincey), 585, 587–9 Owenson, Sydney (Lady Morgan), 306, 483 ‘On the Proposed National Monument at The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys, 190, 191, Edinburgh’, 174 194, 198, 483 opera, 351 O’Donnel, 187, 192, 483 Opie, Amelia, 524 The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale, 182, oppression, 332 184, 189, 303, 306, 478–80, 483 optimism, 110 Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age, 11 oral and folk idioms, 488–9 Oxford History of English Literature, 10 oral performance, 57 and Klancher, 57 pagans, 269 oral tradition, 167, 168, 568–9 Paine, Thomas, 362, 367, 368, 369–71, 370 children’s literature in the, 574–6 Age of Reason, 642 orality, 57–63, 570, 572 and Burke, 370, 609 The Order of Things (Foucault), 100 Common Sense, 366, 369 Organic Remains of a Former World and the French Revolution, 366, 370 (Parkinson), 537 and Jefferson, 366 organicism, 73, 99 leaving for America, 369 Orient, the responses to, 220 and the aristocracy, 605–6, 609 The Rights of Man, 358, 369, 370, 609 and ‘art and design’, 608–9 and style, 610–11 culture of, 618 Paley, William, 82 as a literary career, 601 pamphlets, 151, 601 and masculinity, 609 pantheism, 629 Oriental paper money, 82–7 interiors, 307–9, 339 papermaking, 392, 394 literature, 607–8 Paradise Lost (Milton), 600, 622 pictures, 608 The Parental Instructor; or, A father’s present to tales, 607–8 his children, 574 Oriental Renaissance, 602 Paris, 226 Orientalism, 601–5 Park, Mungo, 290

770

Index

Parkinson, James Philosophical Magazine, 530 Organic Remains of a Former World, 537 philosophical materialism, 209 Pasley, C. W. A Philosophical View of Reform (Shelley), 83, Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions 424, 598 of the British Empire, 329 philosophy, 24–44, 427, 432–5, 547, 581, 595 past, the Coleridge and, 439, 442, 446 see antiquarianism French, 208 Past and Present (Carlyle), 217 German, 212, 215–18 pastoralism, 255 and human nature, 276 see also countryside, the speculative, 581 patriotism, 205 physicians, 24–9 Peacock, Thomas Love, 45 physiology, 24–9 The Four Ages of Poetry, 281, 423, 599 Pickwick Papers (Dickens), 393 Melincourt, 56 picturesque, the, 246, 257–65, 258, 260, 264, Rhododaphne, 643 533 Peggy and her Mammy (Elliott), 575 and art, 258 Pendred, John and the destitute figure, 265 London printers, booksellers and stationers and intricacy, 258 vade mecum, 379 satirized, 260 Peninsular campaign (1812), 319 and vagrants, 263 Penny Cyclopaedia, 398 the viewer as a foreigner, 264 penny gaffs, 502 Pig’s Meat (Spence, periodical), 640 Penny Magazine, 398 Pinkerton, John Percy, Thomas Voyages and Travels, 273 Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 53–6, 58, piracy 61, 63, 67 in Dublin, 386 performance, 57, 60 in London, 387–9 periodicals, 37, 151, 175, 350, 389, 436 from overseas, 389 contributors to, 350 in United States of America, 387 Edinburgh, 159 place, 13, 247, 249, 269 literary, 350 Place, Francis, 144 magazines, 37, 457 Autobiography, 335 monthlies, 351, 474 Playfair, John quarterlies, 351, 474 Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory, 538 radical, 162 pneumatic medicine, 542–3 scientific, 530–2 Poems (Keats), 418 scientific content of, 530 Poems, Chiefly Written in the Scottish Dialect weeklies, 351, 401–2 (Burns), 165 ‘The Periodical Press’ (Hazlitt), 437–8 Poems in Two Volumes (Wordsworth), 104 periodization, 101–5, 114, 125 Poems of Ossian (Macpherson), 58, 159 as a system, 121–6, 125 Poems of Wordsworth (Arnold), 622 The Peripatetic (Thelwall), 511 ‘Poems on the Naming of Places’ Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial (Wordsworth), 269 Regions of the New Continent poet playwrights, 495, 498 (Humboldt), 549 poetic autonomy, 428–30, 449–50 Persuasion (Austen), 318, 328 Coleridge and, 429, 444 Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk (Lockhart), 177–8 and criticism, 435–42, 443 phantasmagoria, 349 self-criticism, 442–50 Phillips, Mark Salber, 31 poetics, 1 Phillips, Michael, 139 poetry, 3, 404–8, 429 A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our decline of, 389 Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful as discourse, 439–41 (Burke), 94, 186–8, 533 and exoticism, 281

771

Index

poetry (cont.) in London, 336 and genetics, 430–1 parish relief for, 78, 81 and history and geography, 280 paupers, 298 as imperial discourse, 614 in poetry, 410 Lake Poets, 4 vagrants, 263 language of, 434 workhouses for, 298 and lyric, 510, 523 ‘The Poor and Their Dwellings’ (Crabbe), 296 and novels, 467–8, 519–20 Poovey, Mary, 473 as performance, 439–41 Pope, Alexander and philosophy, 432–5 An Essay on Criticism, 445–6 of political sympathy, 240 on landscape, 259 radicalism of, 442 popular fiction, 383 readers of, 429 popular radicalism, 335–6 rhetorical, 656 Porter, Jane, 575 and self-consciousness, 427, 428, 624 postal system, 36 and self-control, 613–15 post-boy, the, 314–16, 315 and the sublime, 280, 613 Practical Observations upon the Education of the and travel writing, 291 People (Brougham), 531 and war, 322 Pratt, Mary Louise and the war widow, 322–4 and travel writing, 279 working-class, 3 Precept and Example; or, Midsummer Holidays see also Cockney Poets; Lake Poets; Satanic (Elliott), 573, 576–7 Poets preformation, 514–16 poetry, new, 403–12, 423–6 The Prelude (Wordsworth), 120, 211, 444, 554, and celebrity, 414–17 623–44 Cockney Poets, 417 Presbyterianism, 633 ‘internal’, 412 Preston, William, 215 and new politics, 405 ‘A Pretty Book’, 571 Satanic Poets, 419–20 Price, Richard, 131, 213, 357–9, 360 poets, 2–3, 7, 272 on the American Revolution, 220 and labour, 92 Discourse on the Love of our Country, 220, 633 as legislators, 424, 600 and the French Revolution, 372 and self-consciousness, 427 Price, Uvedale, 533 use of past and foreign battles, 320 Essay on the Picturesque, 258 The Poets of Great Britain (Bell), 382 Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 306, 313, 319 Polanyi, Karl, 6 Priestley, Joseph, 360, 529, 536, 547, 633 political economy, 71–4, 75, 78, 174, 185 Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit, and domestic labour, 310 542 and literary figures, 72 primitive cultures, 279 and literary production, 92 and ‘progressive’ England, 286 and population, 74 Primitive Methodists, 636 in the post-war period, 87–100 primitivism, 53, 183 and war, 82–7 The Principles of Literary History (Crane), 10 political novels, 454 Principles of Political Economy and Taxation political rights, 528 (Ricardo), 84–5, 88–9 politics, 2, 175–7 print, 57–63, 350–1 gender and family, 241 printing press, 151 and writers, 1 technology, 390–5, 511–12 see also reform The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Polwhele, Richard Justified Sinner (Hogg), 180 The Unsex’d Females, 363, 422 productive classes, 97 poor, the, 78–82, 262 productive labour, 310 beggars, 264 The Progress of Romance (Reeve), 39, 67

772

Index

Prometheus, 648–9 The Italian, 231 Prometheus (Byron), 648–9 The Mysteries of Udolpho, 302, 319, Prometheus Unbound (Shelley), 445, 598, 648–9, 467 657 The Romance of the Forest, 467 Promis’d Horrors of the French Invasion, – or – radicalism, 74–7, 78, 80, 142, 399, 442 Forcible Reason for negotiating a anti-commercial, 83 Regicide Peace (Gillray), 140–2 and Coleridge, 630–2, 633 property, 262, 264 and conservatism, 80 ‘The Prophecy of Dante’ (Byron), 233 cultural, 362 prose fiction, 519 and the French Revolution, 364 prostitution, 144–6, 335 popular, 335–6 Protestantism, 198, 627 and public houses, 336 provincial publishing, 379, 385 and romance, 69 psychoanalysis, 434 ‘seditious meetings’, 529 psychology, 51, 581, 586, 589 spread of, 363 public and private spheres, 293, 294 suppression of, 361 and women authors, 311–13 underworld of, 640 public education initiatives Wordsworth and, 630 by Brougham, 531 working-class, 89, 97, 640 public houses rational Dissent, 633–5 and radicalism, 336 attacks on, 645 public opinion, 583, 584 obstacles confronted by, 635 public science, 527–8, 529–32 rationalism, 622 publishing, 14, 377, 378, 383, 389, 395–402 Raven, James, 396 commercial, 130 readers, 109, 378, 398–9, 639, 651–2, 654–6 in Dublin, 378 female, 474 in Edinburgh, 161, 378, 380 of novels, 474 house ‘looks’ and, 389 of poetry, 429 in industrial towns, 385 and sentimentality, 33–6 as labour, 92–5 and sympathy, 32–3 in London, 378, 379, 380, 381 realism, 31 of novels, 38, 383 reason, 161, 599 professionals, 292 rebellion, 1, 357–9 provincial, 379 see also reform; revolution of revolution, 365 The Recess; or, A Tale of Other Times (Lee), sociability of, 384–5 466, 468 steam press, 390, 391–2, 395 The Recluse (Wordsworth), 122 stereotyping printing plates, 393, 395 Recollections of a Blue-Coat Schoolboy (Scargill), taxes on, 400–2 553 and technology, 151, 390–5, 391, 511–12 Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland Pulci, Luigi (Wordsworth), 282 Morgante Maggiori, 236 Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets Pursuits of Literature (Godwin), 157 (De Quincey), 589–93 Records of Women: With Other Poems Quarterly Review, 658 (Hemans), 244 scientific coverage in, 530 Redgauntlet (Scott), 174, 180, 320 Queen Mab (Shelley), 388, 643 Rediker, Marcus, 363 quest romance, 66–7, 509 Reeve, Clara, 30, 31 The Old English Baron, 68 Radcliffe, Ann, 467 on Ossian, 65 Gaston de Blondeville, or The court of Henry The Progress of Romance, 39, 67 III. Keeping Festival in Ardenne: A Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke), Romance, 68 208, 358, 609, 610, 633

773

Index

reform, 1, 139, 220–1, 357–9, 359–62 Ricardo, David, 82, 96–9 cultural, 362 Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, and the French Revolution, 360–1 84–5, 88–9 parliamentary, 138–40 Richardson, Alan, 638 political, 336–8 Richardson, Samuel, 34, 43 social, 23, 362, 363 Clarissa, 456 Reform Act (1832), 528 Richetti, John, 5 Reform Bill (1832), 361 The Rights of Man (Paine), 358, 369, 370, 609 Regency London The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (Coleridge), and cultural transformations, 337 413 images of, 335–8 Ringan Gilhaize (Galt), 179 and oligarchy, 337 Ritson, Joseph and political reforms, 336–8 Ancient English Metrical Romances, 53 representation of, 340 Robert, Nicolas-Louis, 392 and Victorian modernity, 337–8 Robertson, William, 50 regicide, 361, 372 Robinson, George, 379, 384 Reid, William Hamilton, 218 Robinson, Mary religion, 621–2, 622–7 Ainsi va Le Monde, 364 and divine creativity, 540–2 Walsingham, 451–4, 461 free will, 77 Rogers, A. history of, 627 The History of Miss Temple, 40 preachers of, 347 Rogers, Samuel, 228 preferments in the church, 153 romance, 65–70 and social claims, 628 and chivalry, 65–7, 68 unorthodox, 643 and Enlightenment, 159–62 Wordsworth and, 623–4, 630 and the imagination, 69 see also Church of England; Evangelical and novels, 167, 191 revival origins of, 67 Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Percy), 53–6, and radicalism, 69 58, 61, 63, 67 Scott and, 172–3 Remarks on Antiquities (Forsyth), 228 The Romance of the Forest (Radcliffe), 467 Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery Manufactures, Fashions and Politics (Coleman), 274 (Ackermann), 341 ‘Romantic conservatism’, 79 representation, 581–2, 582–6 The Romantic Ideology (McGann), 433, 584 Benthamite approach to, 597 Romantic Reformation (Ryan), 646 and imagination, 582, 588, 599 Romanticism, 101, 254 Shelley and, 582 category debated, 7 reprinting, 380, 382, 386, 389, 392, 453, 454 history of, 11 Repton, Humphrey, 261 period of, 121–3 Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy study of, 121 (Hemans), 238 Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries (Butler), Reviews, 151, 436–9 432 see also periodicals Rosenblum, Robert Revolt of Islam (Shelley), 643 Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic revolution, 1, 256, 357–9, 364, 377 Tradition, 186 failure of, 201 Ross, Marlon, 329 literary productions of, 365 Rossetti, Christina, 448 see also American Revolution; French Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 116–17, 183, 206, Revolution; rebellion; reform 210–12 The Revolution in Tanner’s Lane (White), 416 Confessions, 117 rhetorical poetry, 656 Discourses, 430 Rhododaphne (Peacock), 643 and the origin of language, 431

774

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‘system of music’ of, 117 a ‘civil society’, 163 and Voltaire, 210 and the Enlightenment, 159, 163, 276–81, Rowley, Thomas, 60, 62 385, 470 Royal Institution, 529 and the French Revolution, 161 ‘The Ruined Cottage’ (Wordsworth), 299 and Highland clan society, 160 The Ruins, or, A Survey of the Revolutions of and the Highland Clearances, 482 Empires (Volney), 643 and the Highland Tour, 482 The Ruins, Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of and Highlanders, 172 Empires: And the Law of Nature institutions of, 163 (Volney), 201 intellectuals in, 163 Russell, Gillian, 330 internal divisions in, 161 ‘Ruth’ (Wordsworth), 283 ‘invented’ tradition of, 168 Ryan, Robert, 629 literacy rates in, 163 Romantic Reformation, 646 and literary culture, 159 ‘The Ryse of Peyncteynge yn Engla˜de, literature of, 4, 160, 161, 162 wroten bie T. Rowlie’ (Chatterton), and modernity, 160 60 national culture of, 165, 174 national identity of, 163 St Giles ‘Rookery’, 136 philosophical autonomy of, 163 St Leon (Godwin), 462, 470, 478, 513 poets of, 3 St Paul’s Churchyard, 562 as ‘Republic of Letters’, 162 Harris’s at, 562–3 universities, 163 Newbery Books at, 556–9, 561–9 see also Edinburgh Salmonia (Davy), 548 Scott, John, 438 salon culture, 348 Scott, Sir Walter, 51, 65, 159, 178, 191, 280, 377, Sandford and Merton (Day), 560 386, 469 Sartor Resartus (Carlyle), 162, 180 Abbotsford, 5 Satanic Poets, 405, 406, 419–20, 646 Ballantyne’s Novelists’ Library, 475 satire, 108 and conjectural history, 173 and antiquarians, 48 ‘Essay on Imitations of the Ancient savages, 202 Ballads’, 57 and the poetic sublime, 280 and historical novels, 124, 172–4, 332, 520 travel accounts of, 277 Kenilworth, 303 Sayer, Karen, 300 The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 326 Scargill, William Pitt Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 54, 57 Recollections of a Blue-Coat Schoolboy, 553 and national culture, 177 The Sceptic (Hemans), 658–62 Old Mortality, 302 scepticism, 110, 656–7, 659, 663 and Ossian, 172 Schaffer, Simon, 546, 547 post-Waverley fiction, 487 Schelling, Friedrich, 446, 509 Redgauntlet, 174, 180, 320 Schiller, Friedrich, 227, 432 and romance, 67, 172–3, 193 Schlegel, Friedrich, 443, 507, 518 use of history, 332 School for Husbands, Written by a Lady, 41 Waverley, 124, 172–3, 206, 471–2, 484, 485 schools of writing, 104, 121–2 Waverley Novels, 3, 6, 162, 178, 476–7, Schwab, Raymond, 602 484–6 science Scottish Enlightenment, 159, 163, 276–81, 385, and the established church, 532 470 heroes of, 528, 546–51 and travel writing, 276–81 popularization of, 546 Scottish Romanticism, 159, 178–81 ‘scientist’, 527 Scottish stadial theory, 278 see also new science; public science and the condition of women, 279 Scotland, 159, 162–7, 482 The Seasons (Thomson), 46 1832 Reform of institutions, 162 Secrecy; of The Ruin on the Rock (Fenwick), 521

775

Index

sectarianism, 644–7 A Defence of Poetry, 232, 403, 423–5, 431, 439, secularism, 171, 625–6 599 Seditious Societies Act (1799), 399 drowning of, 230 self-consciousness, 11 Hellas, 238, 618 self-definition, 604 and imperialist language, 618 self-determination, 605 on the insurrections of 1820–21, 239 sensation novel, 519 Julian and Maddalo; A Conversation, 236 Sense and Sensibility (Austen), 460 ‘Lines Written among the Euganean sensibility, 21–4, 26, 29–30, 32, 38–44, 460 Hills’, 239 aesthetic, 25 in London, 346 excessive, 27 and Malthus, 82 and literature, 39 mythology of, 645 material, 25 and the national debt, 83 and modernity, 26–9 ‘Ode to Naples’, 239 moral, 25 A Philosophical View of Reform, 83, 424, 598 nervous, 24 on poets, 600 and social distinction, 26 political actions and literary works, 599 theories of, 24–9 Prometheus Unbound, 445, 598, 648–9, 657 and women, 26 Queen Mab, 388, 643 A Sentimental Journey (Sterne), 32, 224 and representation, 582 sentimental literature, 21–4, 29–32, 441, 456, Revolt of Islam, 643 459 self-scepticism, 657 for children, 559, 561 on Tasso, 236 commercialized, 39 ‘To the Republicans of North America’, and readers, 33–6 221 techniques of, 30–3, 40 Triumph of Life, 233 A Series of Plays on the Passions (Baillie), 500 on Venice, 238 Seward, Anna, 34, 42 Shelley, William, 229 sexuality, 74, 76 Shelley family cult of, 643 in Italy, 229–30 Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 139, 146 274–5 Short Residence in Sweden (Wollstonecraft), Shakespeare, William 279 closeting of, 499 ‘The Sicilian Captive’ (Hemans), 244 Macbeth, 588 Siddons, Sarah, 496, 501 representation of, 502 ‘The Siege of Zaragoza’ (Southey), 324 Shelley, Clara, 229 ‘The Sight of Shops’ (Hunt), 345 Shelley, Mary, 228, 230, 298, 583 ‘Signs of the Times’ (Carlyle), 550 Frankenstein, 4, 298, 469, 536, 539, 544, 643 A Simple Story (Inchbald), 136, 137, 461 in London, 346 sincerity, 655–6, 662 Mathilda, 523 Siskin, Clifford, 510, 520 and the novel of manners, 513 and ‘writing’, 511–12 novels of, 449 Sismondi, J. C. ‘Transformations’, 524 Histoires des Re´publiques Italiennes, 241 Valperga; or, the Life and Adventures of slavery, 207, 271, 272 Castruccio, Prince of Lucca, 243, 487, ‘Slavery’ (More), 638 521 Sleep and Poetry (Keats), 406, 508, 617 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 6, 80, 85, 211, 235, 419, Smellie, William, 47 526, 539 Smith, Adam, 28, 71, 83 Alastor, 519, 618 labour theory of value, 71, 89 The Cenci, 242 and rhetorical devices of non-fiction, 31 criticism of Byron, 658 The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 22, 29, on Dante, 232 111, 171

776

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The Wealth of Nations, 88, 111, 160, 470 stadial theory, 49, 50, 54, 68, 160, 169–70, Smith, Charlotte, 136, 157, 421 276–81, 291 Desmond, 452–4 and the condition of women, 279 ‘The Emigrants’, 321 Scottish, 278 Smith, Horace see also conjectural history see Smith, James, and Horace Smith stately homes, 293, 305–11 Smith, James, and Horace Smith Irish, 306, 307–9 Horace in London, 340 public domestic spaces, 306 ‘The Stock-Jobber’s Lament’, 340 visiting of, 306 Smith, Sydney, 218 Statesman’s Manual, 631 Smithson, Robert Sterne, Laurence, 35 on the picturesque, 261 A Sentimental Journey, 32, 224 Snow, C. P., 528 Steuart, James, 91–2 social commentary, 73 Stewart, Dugald, 170 social networks, 352–4 ‘The Stock-Jobber’s Lament’ (Smith and careers and reputations made in, 354 Smith), 340 of journalism and bookselling, 352 Stone, John Hurford, 366 of literary figures, 352 Stories of Old Daniel (Moore), 574 social sciences, 470 Stories of the Italian Poets (Hunt), 234 social space, 247 The Story of Rimini (Hunt), 234 social structures, 596–8, 595 Stothard, Thomas social tales, 560 illustrations for The Novelist’s Magazine, 458 Society for the Diffusion of Useful Strahan, William, 380 Knowledge, 531 The Strand, 143 Society for the Reformation of Principles by street culture, 347–8 Appropriate Literature, 152 street theatre, 503 Society for the Suppression of Vice, 347 Strutt, Joseph, 147 Songs of Innocence and Experience (Blake), 554, Stuart, Gilbert, 26 639 style, 25, 606–12, 610–11 ‘Sonnet on the Extinction of the Venetian subjectivity, 121, 462, 585, 603, 618 Republic’ (Wordsworth), 238 and travel writing, 279 Southcott, Joanna, 640 and the traveller, 289, 292 Southey, Robert, 74, 76–82, 86, 280, 409 sublime, 94 The Book of the Church, 630 Celtic, 186 Life of Nelson, 327–8 geological, 534, 537–9 and Malthus, 79, 82 in the Irish novel, 190 opposition to political economy, 79 meteorological, 534–7 and Orientalism, 644 metropolitan, 129 and poet laureateship, 645 in the mind, 533 on the Satanic Poets, 646 natural, 186–8 ‘The Siege of Zaragoza’, 324 and Orientalism, 603 and the United States of America, 220, 221 and poetry, 613 A Vision of Judgement, 419 theological connotations of, 532, 534 on war, 320 sublimity, 440, 444 Southwell, Charles, 540 suffrage, 139 space, 247 Summerfield, Geoffrey social, 247 on the Godwins’ City Juvenile Library, spectacle, 491–2, 493, 496, 502 567–8 spectatorship, 490 Sunday schools, 639 speculative philosophy, 581 supernatural, the, 68, 192 Spence, Thomas, 336, 640 superstition, 268–70, 469 The Spirit of the Age (Hazlitt), 594–8 Swinburne, A. C., 648 The Spirit of the Laws (Montesquieu), 278 symbolic art, 517

777

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sympathy, 21–4, 29, 240, 456, 663 and the chorus, 587 political, 240 contemporary works, 495 and readers, 32–3 costume, 497 theories of, 23 criticism, 349–50, 494, 498–502, 498, 500 systems, 103–5, 105, 116–20, 118, 120 critics of, 498–502 embedded, 110–12, 112–14, 118, 122 forms of representation in, 490–1 and Enlightenment, 102–4 German, 206, 214 of exclusion, 123 handlists, 495 and genre, 103, 105–8, 110–11, 116, 124–5 illegitimate, 490, 493 periodization as, 121–6, 125 legitimate, 490, 492–3 and reality, 105–6 and Lives of actors, 503 of war, 331–4 in London, 342 of weather, 332–4 ‘Lord Byron’, 503 and women writers, 124 moral justification of, 501 and Wordsworth, 119 and politics, 490, 491 writers of, 109 productions of Life in London, 343 programme content, 494 Tabart Books and reason, 501 Nursery Tales series, 569 resident companies, 496 self-advertisement in, 563–6 set design, 497 Tabart’s Juvenile and School Library, 563–6 stagecraft, 497 Tacitus, Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius, 31 standards of, 495 A Tale of Mystery (Holcroft), 504 street theatre, 503 tales and suspension of disbelief, 502 exotic, 275 theories of, 498 moral, 560 urban spectacles, 502–6 old wives’, 575–6 viewing, 492–7 Oriental, 607–8 visibility of, 490–1 social, 560 women performers, 500, 503 Tales of the Castle (Genlis), 41 Thelwall, John, 143, 150, 221, 544 ‘Tam O’Shanter’ (Burns), 48 The Peripatetic, 511 The Task (Cowper), 314–16 theories of value, 73 Tasso, Torquato Theory of Fictions (Bentham), 597 Gerusalemme Liberata, 236 The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Smith), 22, 29, taste 111, 171 see style The Theory of the Earth (Hutton), 538 Tate, Allen Things As They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb on extension and intension, 524 Williams (Godwin), 105, 108, 118, 120, taxes, 82–7, 339 129, 454, 461, 463, 464, 478 Taylor, Jeffreys Thistlewood, Arthur, 336 Harry’s Holidays: or the Doings of One, Who Thompson, E. P., 335 Had Nothing to Do, 555 The Making of the English Working Class, 256 Tegg, Thomas, 389 Thompson, John, 341 Temora (Macpherson), 58 Thomson, James Tennyson, Alfred, Lord King Alfred, 46 In Memorium, 441 ‘Spring’ in The Seasons, 46 Test Acts (1673 and 1678), 627, 628, 635 Thomson, Thomas Thackeray, William, 335 Annals of Philosophy, 530 theatre, 139, 349, 351, 490–2, 506, 508–11, 586 ‘The Thorn’ (Wordsworth), 519 actors, 496, 501–2 Thousand and One Nights (Newbery Books), and aesthetic change, 491 559 characters, 496, 500, 501 The Three Perils of Man: War, Women and children’s, 502 Witchcraft (Hogg), 180, 488

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The Three Perils of Woman: Love, Leasing and and young people, 275 Jealousy (Hogg), 180 ‘The Traveller at the Source of the Nile’ Thurtell, John, 348 (Hemans), 286, 289 Tighe, Mary, 448 Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile Tilloch, Alexander (Bruce), 286–9 Philosophical Magazine, 530 Treason Trials (1794), 142–3, 361, 504 ‘Time Real and Imaginary’ (Coleridge), 524 Treatise of Human Nature (Hume), 110, 117, The Times, 391 161, 171 Tintern Abbey (Wordsworth), 433, 434, 615 Trilling, Lionel Tissot, Samuel Auguste on Wordsworth, 623–4 Essay on the Diseases incident to literary Triumph of Life (Shelley), 233 persons, 27 trope of encounter, 479 ‘To the Republicans of North America’ trope of the ruin, 201 (Shelley), 221 Trotter, Thomas, 26, 40 A Token for Children: Being An Exact Account of on fallen women, 42 the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary and nervous diseases, 27–8 Lives, and Joyful Deaths of several young A View of the Nervous Temperament, 24 Children (Janaway), 556 Trumpener, Katie, 164, 202, 271, 303 Toland, John, 188 Turk’s Head public house, 146 History of the Druids, 188 Twain, Mark, 391 topography, 47, 252 typefounders, 394 Torquato Tasso (Goethe), 236 Tour of Ireland (Young), 479 Union of Parliaments (1707), 160, 162–7 tourism, 47, 228, 263, 264, 266–7, 486 Unitarianism, 630, 633–5 ‘foreign’ character of, 264 United Irishmen, 184, 198, 200 trade unions, 97 United States of America, 206–8, 218, 223 Trafalgar Square, 144 culture of, 219–20 transcendentalists, 542 emigration from Britain, 208 ‘Transformations’ (Shelley), 524 in the imagination, 220 translations, 512, 617 literature of, 208, 218–20 and the East India Company, 617 and piracy, 387 of Eastern texts, 601, 603 and reprinting, 395 transmutationist theories, 540–2 and Romanticism, 624, 649 travel, 512–13, 549 war of 1812, 219 and accommodation, 229 see also American Revolution and cottages, 297 Universal British Directory, 137 to Italy, 228 unpublished works, 526 and subjectivity, 289, 292 The Unsex’d Females (Polwhele), 363, 422 and Wollstonecraft, Mary, 512 unstamped press, 401–2 see also tourism ‘use value’, 95–7 travel writing, 272, 272–6, 276–81, 457 utilitarianism, 82, 94, 598 and the British empire, 273–6 and empiricism, 292 Vagabondia, 347 fictional, 273 Valperga;or,theLifeandAdventuresofCastruccio, and imaginative literature, 272 Prince of Lucca (Shelley), 243, 487, 521 ‘literature of fact’, 288 value ‘literature of knowledge’, 274 aesthetic, 73, 96 ‘literature of power’, 274–5 exchange, 88 and poetry, 291 market, 95–7 reviews of, 273 theories of, 73 and the Scottish Enlightenment, 276–81 use, 95–7 and subjectivity, 279 Vendler, Helen and Vicesimus Knox, 275 on Keats’s ‘Autumn’, 443

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Venice, 238–40 newspapers, 327 The Vespers of Palermo (Hemans), 243–4 pain of, 322–31, 324 Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and reading, 316, 316–22 (Chambers), 541–2 and waiting, 318–20, 319 The Victim of Prejudice (Hays), 519 and women and children, 322 A View of the Nervous Temperament (Trotter), war heroes, 325–9, 325–8, 327 24 war mother, the, 325 Views of the Architecture of the Heavens war systems, 331–4 (Nichol), 540 war widow, the, 322–4 The Village (Crabbe), 254 ‘warm south’, the, 224–6, 241–5, 237 The Village School (Kilner), 573 see also Italy Vincent, William, 153–4 Warton, Jane, 41 A Vindication of the Rights of Men Warton, Joseph (Wollstonecraft), 373 Essay on the Writing and Genius of Pope, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 33 (Wollstonecraft), 211, 373, 606–11 Warton, Thomas, 61, 67 ‘The Vision’ (Burns), 166 The History of English Poetry, 52, 213 A Vision of Judgement (Southey), 419 ‘Washing Day’ (Barbauld), 310 A Visit to London (Kilner), 563 Watt, James, 548 A Visit to the Bazaar (Harris), 562 Watts, Isaac Visits to the Juvenile Library; or, Knowledge The Improvement of the Mind, 107 Proved to be the Source of Happiness Waverley (Scott), 124, 172–3, 206, 484, 485 (Fenwick), 564 ‘We Are Seven’ (Wordsworth), 639 vital powers, 542–6 wealth, 89 volksgeist, 227 distribution of, 79, 88, 100 Volney, C. F. land owners, 97 The Ruins, or, A Survey of the Revolutions of urban, 163 Empires, 643 The Wealth of Nations (Smith), 88, 111, 160, The Ruins, Or, Meditation on the Revolutions 470 of Empires: And the Law of Nature, 201 weather systems, 332–4 Voltaire (Franc¸ois-Marie Arouet ), 218 Wedderburn, Robert, 336 and Rousseau, 210 Wellbery, David Voyage aux re´gions e´quinoxiales du nouveau New History of German Literature, 11 continent (Humboldt), 549 Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 319 Voyages and Travels (Pinkerton), 273 Welsh literary antiquities, 47 Werner, Abraham Wales, 63 ‘Neptunist’ geology, 537 ‘Walks around London’ (Hunt), 345 Wesley, John, 636 Wallace, David, 11 Wesleyan Connexion, 636–7 Walpole, Horace, 67, 261 West End, 136, 137 The Castle of Otranto, 61, 454, 466 Whewell, William, 527 Walsingham (Robinson), 451–4, 461 Astronomy and General Physics, 540 The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties (Burney), Whitaker, John, 153 324 White, Gilbert war, 314–16, 316, 321–2, 324, 326, 328 A Natural History of Selbourne, 252 and domesticity, 500 White, William Hale as drama and performance, 330 The Revolution in Tanner’s Lane, 416 heroic women in, 324 Whitehall, 143, 148 and the home front, 319–20, 322 White’s, 140 and the imagination, 332–4 Whytt, Robert, 29 and literary history, 316 ‘The Widow’, 322 and literature, 316, 318 Wilberforce, William, 637–8 and newspapers, 317 Wild Irish Boy (Maturin), 306

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The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale women, 214 (Owenson), 182, 184, 189, 303, 306, condition of, 279 478–80, 483 and public and private spheres, 311–13 Williams, Edward, 230 and public home, 303 Williams, Helen Maria, 358, 366–7, 372, 421 and sensibility, 26 ‘The Bastille’, 359 women readers ‘Farewell for Two Years to England’, 374 of novels, 40, 42 and the French Revolution, 375 women writers, 4, 15, 508 and the Girondins, 374–6 exclusion of, 123 Julia, 359 and memoirs, 464 Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of of novels, 383, 454, 516 France, 375 from the peripheries, 481–3 Letters from France, 366 playwrights, 495, 500 in Paris, 372 poets, 3, 447–9 and the publication of Louis XVI’s and system, 123 correspondence, 372 see also ‘Female Poetry’ Williams, Ranti, 651 women’s rights, 215, 362 Williams, Raymond, 583, 604 Wood, Robert, 609 on capitalism, 255 Woolf, Virginia, 5 The Country and the City, 249, 255 Wordsworth, Dorothy, 295 Culture and Society, 582 Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland, 282 on Enclosure, 253, 254 Wordsworth, William, 212, 248, 301, 412–14, on ‘organic communities’, 255 592, 622–4, 654 workers, 263 ‘Anticipation: October 1803’, 321 ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ and the apocalyptic landscape, 448 Byron on, 663 and atheism, 420 Coleridge on, 662 and ballads, 59 Keats on, 663 ‘The Brothers’, 265–8 Wilson, John, 122, 348, 415–16 and children’s literature, 554 ‘A Winter Day’, 297 ‘The Complaint of the Forsaken Indian ‘The Wish’ (Clare), 296, 312 Woman’, 283–6, 291 Wolcot, John, ‘Peter Pindar’, 135 and copyright, 388 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 134, 361, 365–7, 372–4 depictions of war, 320 and a feminized East, 608 ‘domestic’ encounters, 283 in France, 366, 372 and domesticity, 295 and the French Revolution, 366 Ecclesiastical Sketches, 630 An Historical and Moral View of the French and Edinburgh booksellers, 410 Revolution, 373 ‘Essay, Supplementary to the Preface’, 413 and Imlay, 373 ‘Essays upon Epitaphs’, 583 and Islam, 607 and ethnographic evidence, 281–6 in London, 155–6 Evening Walk, 265 and Oriental literature, 607–8 The Excursion, 413, 436, 439, 622–4, 629, and Orientalism, 606–11 644 Original Stories From Real Life, 508 and exotic travel, 282–3 Short Residence in Sweden, 279 Five-Book Prelude, 275 and style, 608, 610–11 in France, 357 and travel, 512 ‘Home at Grasmere’, 295 A Vindication of the Rights of Men, 373 and homes, 295–6 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 211, and imagination, 657 373, 606–11 and ‘internal’ poetry, 413 on Wordsworth, 412 on Keats, 644 The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria, 138, 459, and labour, 92 464–5, 508 and landscape, 614–15

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Wordsworth, William (cont.) ‘Sonnet on the Extinction of the Venetian ‘Lines written a few miles above Tintern Republic’, 238 Abbey’, 201 on standard protocols, 409 in London, 155 and style, 612–13 and lyric, 522 and system, 119 Lyrical Ballads, 2, 119, 283, 385, 403, 407, system of philosophy, 122 409–10, 413, 431, 612, 613 ‘The Thorn’, 519 Lyrical Ballads, Appendix, 54 and the threat of invasion, 320 Lyrical Ballads, Preface, 56 Tintern Abbey, 433, 434, 615 and Malthus, 80, 81 ‘We Are Seven’, 639 and a ‘manly’ style, 612 on weather systems, 333 Michael, 296, 312, 409 working classes, 256 negative responses to, 215 and radicalism, 89, 97 Ode (Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Sunday schools for, 639 Recollections of Early Childhood), 411, working as printers, 391 593 ‘The Wounded Soldier’ (Merry), 323 and Ossian, 63 writers, 152–4 and the picturesque, 267 and booksellers, 384 Poems in Two Volumes, 104 divisions between, 152 poems on cottage economy, 311 and excessive sensibility, 27 ‘Poems on the Naming of Places’, and geographies, 13 269 and political influence, 1, 6 and poetry, 612–13 and self-consciousness, 453 poetry and self-control, 613–15 of systems, 109 and the poetry of place, 252 The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria The Prelude, 120, 211, 444, 554, 623–44 (Wollstonecraft), 138, 459, 464–5, 508 on primitive society, 286 and radicalism, 630 Yeats, W. B., 7, 203 ‘real language of men’, 431 Young, Arthur, 209 The Recluse, 122 Tour of Ireland, 479 and religion, 623–4, 630 Young, Edward and revision, 525 Conjectures on Original Composition, 591 ‘The Ruined Cottage’, 299 ‘Ruth’, 283 ‘Z’ on self-reflection, 330 in Blackwood’s Magazine, 417, 419

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