Romanticism: an Overview

Romanticism, Religion, and Philosophy

• Emotionalist Moral Philsophy and the Origins of Romanticism
• Evangelicalism -- Romantic Religion
• Timeline of English Philosophy and Religion
• Comteian Positivism

Psychological, Moral, and Aesthetic Theory

• Sublimity: An Introduction
• Nature Dwarfs Humanity: the Sublimity of Size and Scale
• Alexander Gerard and the Sublimity of Size
• Sublimity as Subjective Experience
• Edmund Burke
• William Wordsworth
• J. M. W. Turner

Poets

• William Blake
• George Gordon, Lord Byron
• William Cowper
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• John Keats
• P. B. Shelley
• William Wordsworth

Political Contexts

• A Timeline of British History
• The Anti-Slavery Campaign in Britain
• Corn Laws
• Reform Acts: An Introduction
• Tory and Whig
• Prime Ministers
• The British Empire and International Relations
  • British Empire
  • Britain and Ireland 1789-1801

Social History

• Public Health
  • Nineteen-Century Public Health Overview
  • Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions
• Conditions of Life and Labor
  • Child Labor
  • The Life of the Industrial Worker in Early Ninteenth-Century England
  • The Development of Leisure in Britain, 1700-1850
• Race, Class, and Gender Issues
  • Race and Class Overview
  • Social Class
  • Women's History

Pre-Nineteenth History Political History

• A Brief History of London
• French Revolution
• Kings and Queens of England from 1485 to the Present

Incorporated in the Victorian Web July 2000; last modified 16 April 2001; thanks to Chris Locke for catching a bad link.