Romanticism and the Letter

Chapter 1 Romanticism and the Letter : Introduction

Chapter 2 Romantic Letter Writing and the Publisher

Chapter 3 The Letter and the Literary Circle: Mary Leadbeater, Melesina Trench, and the Epistolary Salon

Chapter 4 The Disappointment of Wordsworth’s Letters

Chapter 5 Two Wordsworths: Mountain-climbing, Letter-writing

Chapter 6 ‘Hare and Hound’: Ends and Means in Coleridge’s Letters

Chapter 7 The ‘Entire Man of Letters’?: Robert Southey, Correspondence and Romantic Incompleteness

Chapter 8 Charles Lamb and the Rattle of Existence

Chapter 9 The Tensions of Jane Austen’s Epistolary Style

Chapter 10 ‘Transported to your presence’: Leigh Hunt’s Letters to the Shelleys

Chapter 11 ‘Foam is their foundation’: The Poetics of Byron’s Letters

Chapter 12 Byron, Shelley, and Keats, and the Limits of Letters

Chapter 14 John Keats’s Epistolary Intimacy

Chapter 15 ‘don’t imagine it an a propos des bottes’: Keats, the Letter and the Poem

Chapter 16 ‘The house of misery’: Space and Memory in the Later Correspondence and Literature of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley