Contents

Acknowledgements

vii

Introduction: The Times of Romanticism

Sophie Laniel-Musitelli and Céline Sabiron

ix

Section I: Restoration, Revival, and Revolution across Romantic Europe 

1

1.

‘Future Restoration’ 

Paul Hamilton

3

2.

‘Anthropocene Temporalities and British Romantic Poetry’ 

Evan Gottlieb

25

3.

‘Beethoven: Revolutionary Transformations’

Gregory Dart 

49

Section II: Romantic Conceptions of Time

75

4.

‘The Temporality of the Soul: Immanent Conceptions of Time in Wordsworth and Byron’

Ralf Haekel

77

5.

‘“Footing slow across a silent plain”: Time and Walking in Keatsian Poetics’

Oriane Monthéard

97

Section III: The Poetics of Time 

119

6.

‘Contracting Time: John Clare’s The Shepherd’s Calendar’ 

Lily Dessau

121

7.

‘Book-Time in Charles Lamb and Washington Irving’ 

Matthew Redmond

145

8.

‘“a disciple of Albertus Magnus [...] in the eighteenth century”: Anachronism and Anachrony in Frankenstein’ 

Anne Rouhette

163

Section IV: Persistence and Afterlives

181

9.

‘Heaps of Time in Beckett and Shelley’

Laura Quinney

183

10.

‘“Thy Wreck a Glory”: Venice, Subjectivity, and Temporality in Byron and Shelley and the Post-Romantic Imagination’

Mark Sandy 

205

Section V: Romanticism and Periodisation

225

‘Romanticism and Periodisation: A Roundtable’

David Duff, Nicholas Halmi, Laurent Folliot, Martin Procházka, and Fiona Stafford

227

List of Contributors

273

List of Figures

279

Index

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