Taking into account key movements, such as late 19th century aestheticism, early 20th century Modernism, postmodernism and post-colonialism, the book shows how these developments were not only informed by Romanticism, but also revealed it to be a more plural and less stable concept.

Introduction Carmen Casaliggi and Paul March-Russell Part 1: Early and Mid-Victorian 1. Hazlitt as a Gateway to Nineteenth Century Ekphrasis: The Quarrel with Reynolds Revisited Richard Read 2. Ruskin’s Keats: A Joy for Ever (and its Price in the Market), "The Mystery of Life and its Arts", and the Resonance of the Severn Circle Carmen Casaliggi 3. Anatomizing the "Case": Shelley’s The Cenci, Browning’s The Ring and the Book, and the Origins of the Dramatic Monologue Porscha Fermanis 4. Burney’s Wanderers and Brontë’s Silent Revolts: Revolution, Vagrancy and Gender Muireann O’Cinneide Part 2: Late Victorian and Edwardian 5. Shelley’s Alchemy, Pater’s Transformations Catherine Maxwell 6. The New Pygmalions: Idealism and Disillusionment in Hazlitt’s Liber Amoris and Lee’s Miss Brown Patricia Pulham 7. Late Victorian Responses to Romanticism: Wordsworth, Wilde’s Poems and other inheritances Ruth Robbins 8. Pole to Pole: Romantic Apocalypse at the Victorian Fin de Siècle Matthew Bradley Part 3: Modernism and Postmodernism 9. Louis MacNeice and the Struggle for Romantic Identity Madeleine Callaghan 10. The Neo-Romantic Wyndham Lewis Paul March-Russell 11. Neo-Romantic Visionaries: Picturing Britain in the Second World War Stella Hockenhull 12. The Last of the Romantics? The Accidental Investigator in Postmodern Detective Fiction Stefania Ciocia Part 4: Postcolonialism and Theoretical Studies 13. "Dark Interpretations": Romanticism’s Ambiguous Legacy in India Daniel Sanjiv Roberts 14. Diaspora and its Romanticism(s) - The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Ellen Dengel-Janic 15. Romanticism and Unhappiness: Melancholy as a Romantic Legacy Simon Swift 16. Present Prophesy: The Transformation of Romantic Rhetoric in and by New Media Joseph Tabbi