Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth Century British Culture
Volume 1: Literature and Philosophy of the Romantic Period
Edited by Monika Class and Cian Duffy
Table of contents
General Introduction: "No longer such an Ancient Quarrel: Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture", Giles Whiteley
Volume Introduction: "From Ancient Rivalry to Reciprocity: Romantic-era Literature and Philosophy: " - Monika Class
Part 1. Knowledge and Belief
Part 1. Introduction: "God, Nature, and the Secularization of Morality and Knowledge" - Monika Class
1. William Paley, 'The Unity of the Deity', of Natural Theology
2. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (née Aikin), 'An Address to the Deity' of Poems
3. Catharine Macaulay, The Question of Free Will and Necessity', of Letters on Education
4. Friedrich August Nitsch, "Influence of Kant's Principles of Religion" of A General and Introductory View of Professor Kant Concerning Man, the World and the Deity 5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Aphorisms on That Which Is Indeed Spiritual Religion: Aphorism VIII', of Aids to Reflection
6. Henry Crabb Robinson, 'Letter from an under-Graduate, at the University of Jena, on the Philosophy of Kant'
7. Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Julian and Maddalo: A Conversation', of Posthumous Poems
8. Francis Jeffrey, 'Stewart's Account of the Life and Writings of Dr Thomas Reid'
Part 2. Self
Part 2. Introduction: "The Reciprocity of Literature and Philosophy at the Intersection of Self and Other" - Monika Class
9. Thomas Beddoes, 'Of the Brunonian Doctrine', of The Elements of Medicine of John Brown
10. Elizabeth Hamilton, 'Operation of the Selfish Principle in the Spirit of Party', of A Series of Popular Essays
11. Charlotte Smith (neé Turner), 'Sonnet XXXII: To Melancholy', of Elegiac Sonnets
12. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Imagination' From Biographia Literaria, or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions13. William Wordsworth. Book II 'School-time Continued', of The Prelude
14. John Keats, 'Letter to Bailey, 22 November 1817; Letter to Brothers, 22 December 1817'
15. William Hazlitt. Excerpt from An Essay on the Principles of Human Action: Being an Argument in Favour of the Natural Disinterestedness of the Human Mind 16. Thomas Carlyle, 'The Everlasting Yea', of Sartor Resartus
Part 3. Art and CriticismPart 3. Introduction: "Philosophical Aesthetics and Beyond" - Cian Duffy
17. Archibald Alison, 'Of the Effect Produced upon the Imagination by Objects of Beauty and Sublimity', of Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste
18. John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Barbauld (née Aikin), 'On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror', of Miscellaneous Pieces,
19. Ann Radcliffe, 'On the Supernatural in Poetry'20. Richard Payne Knight, Excerpt from The Landscape, a Didactic Poem
21. Joanna Baillie, 'Introductory Discourse to Plays on the Passions', of A Series of Plays
22. Isaac D'Israeli, 'On some Characteristics of a Youth of Genius', of An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character (
23. Charles Lamb, 'On the Genius and Character of Hogarth; with some Remarks'24. Baroness Holstein Staël, "Influence of the New German Philosophy on Literature and the Arts', of Germany
25. Thomas de Quincey, 'Lessing: Gallery of the German Prose Classics. By the English Opium Eater. Part II',
26. Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'A Defence of Poetry' in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments
Part 4. SocietyPart 4. Introduction: "Literature, Philosophy, and Revolution" - Cian Duffy
27. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris
28. Thomas Paine, Excerpt from Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
29. Mary Wollstonecraft, 'Some Instances of the Folly which the Ignorance of Women Generates', of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
30. Hannah More 'On the Education of Women', of Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education
31. Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, 'Tasks', of Essays on Practical Education 32. Jeremy Bentham, Excerpt from An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Printed in the Year 1780, and Now First Published
33. William Godwin, 'Objection to the System from the Principle of Population' of Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
34. Thomas R. Malthus, 'Error of Mr. Godwin', of An Essay on the Principle of Population
35. James Stephen, Excerpt from The Opportunity; or, Reasons for an Immediate Alliance with St. Domingo
36. Thomas Carlyle, "Review of Anticipation; or, a Hundred Years Hence [on the Signs of the Times]'Index
