The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid advances in t

What is Romanticism? In this Very Short Introduction Michael Ferber answers this by considering who the romantics were and looks at what they had in common —

The birth of modern attitudes to political and artistic freedom.

Wild Romanticism consolidates contemporary thinking about conceptions of the wild in British and European Romanticism, clarifying the emergence of wilderness as

Explores how emerging ideas of infancy and childhood gave Romantic writers and readers new ways of understanding history and literature.