Romanticism and the Gothic Revival

The Gothic Revival in Northumberland & County Durham

Gothic Scholars Don’t Wear Black Gothic Studies and Gothic Subcultures

are hardly in touch with each other. This is something that should ideally change in the near future, since Gothic Studies and Gothic youth subcultures greatly overlap, at least as regards their common interest in Gothic literature, the iconography and the non-literary texts (films, comics, and so on) derived from it. The multiplicity of texts generated by Gothic, understood here as a narrative...

Evangelical Christianity and Romanticism

Dr. Bebbington is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling, Scotland. This article is the second in a series of three entitled 'Evangelical Christianity and Western Culture Since the Eighteenth Century' and was presented by the author in the Staley Lectures at Regent College in April1989. (The first lecture in the series was published in the December 1989 issue of Crux.) The lec...

Burke’s Higher Romanticism: Politics and the Sublime

Introduction Both Edmund Burke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau can be grouped among the key thinkers of the eighteenth century. They are widely understood to be quite different from one another, and their outlooks—especially their political-philosophical views—are often contrasted by scholars. Among those who have profitably contrasted Burke with Rousseau is the early twentieth century literary schol...

Romanticism and the Philosophy of Travel

The importance of literary travel writing can be partly explained by the qualities it shares with imaginative literature featuring the concepts of Romanticism. Writers from Twain and Steinbeck to Thoreau and Wordsworth have depicted the human bent towards adventure and the unknown and, especially in rapidly developing societies, the urge to return to simplicity and the core values of life and t...