RICHARD CRONIN is Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. His previous books are Shelley's Poetic Thoughts, Colour and Experience in Nineteenth-Century Poetry, Imagining India, 1798: The Year of Lyrical Ballads and The Politics of Romantic Poetry: In Search of the Pure Commonwealth.

Introduction Memorializing Romanticism Historicizing Romanticism Feminizing Romanticism Fashioning Romanticism Civilizing Romanticism Realizing Romanticism Christening Romanticism Domesticating Romanticism Conclusion Index

Covering a wide range of authors, among them Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, Clare, Mary Shelley and Disraeli, Cronin brings light and order to one of the murkiest quarters in recent British literary history. Brimming with intelligent and original perceptions about authors of works that have fallen through literary-historical cracks, Romantic Victorians offers shrewd assessments of their formal and tactical designs.