Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. Introduction. Reading beyond Redemption: Historicism, Irony, and the Lessons of Romanticism 1
5. Varieties of Bildung in European Romanticism and Beyond
6. Romanticism, Bildung, and the Literary Absolute 41
7. The Inhibitions of Democracy on Romantic Political Thought: Thoreau's Democratic Individualism 55
8. Between Irony and Radicalism: The Other Way of a Romantic Education 76
9. Friendly Instruction: Coleridge and the Discipline of Sociology 89
10. Keats and the Aesthetics of Critical Knowledge; or, The Ideology of Studying Romanticism at the Present Time 103
11. Reading Habits: Scenes of Romantic Miseducation and the Challenge of Eco-Literacy 126
12. Postmodernism, Romanticism, and John Clare 157
13. Images and Institutions of Cultural Literacy in Romanticism
14. The Lessons of Swedenborg; or, The Origin of William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 173
15. Coleridge's Lessons in Transition: The "Logic" of the "Wildest Odes" 213
16. Some Romantic Images in Beethoven 225
17. "Lorenzo's" Liverpool and "Corinne's" Coppet: The Italianate Salon and Romantic Education 244
18. Liberty, Connection, and Tyranny: The Novels of Jane Austen and the Aesthetic Movement of the Picturesque 261
19. The Royal Academy and the Annual Exhibition of the Viewing Public 280
20. Romantic Psychoanalysis: Keats, Identity, and "(The Fall of) Hyperion" 304
21. "Their terrors came upon me tenfold": Literacy and Ghosts in John Clare's Autobiography 328
22. Gender, Sexuality, and the (Un)Romantic Canon
23. A Lesson in Romanticism: Gendering the Soul 349
24. What Happens When Jane Austen and Frances Burney Enter the Romantic Canon? 376
25. Domesticating Gothic: Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, and National Romance 392
26. Learning What Hurts: Romanticism, Pedagogy, Violence 413
27. Reforming Byron's Narcissism 429
28. "This Horrid Theatre of Human Sufferings": Gendering the Stages of History in Catharine Macaulay and Percy Bysshe Shelley 448
29. Contributors 467
30. Index 471