The Influence and Anxiety of the British Romantics: Spectres of Romanticism

Ten essays developed from presentations at an inaugural postgraduate conference in June 1998 at the University of Liverpool explore the array of specters haunting Romanticism and Romanticists and show how the concept of haunting was used and defined in a number of different ways. They also both lean on and challenge Harold Bloom's 1973 notion of the influence of an earlier writer on later ones as a spectral haunting. The usual canon is well represented: Keats, Shelley, Blake, and Wordsworth. The text is double spaced. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)