Anthologies

Romantic Period Writings 1798-1832

An Anthology

Edited by Zachary Leader and Ian Haywood

London and New York: Routledge University Press, 1998

CONTENTS

Introduction

Radical Journalism, Ian Haywood
Extract 1: from William Cobbett, Cobbett's Weekly Political Register (2 November 1816)
Extract 2: from T. J. Wooler, The Black Dwarf (11 August 1819)
Extract 3: from T. J. Wooler, The Black Dwarf (25 August 1819)
Extract 4: from T. J. Wooler, The Black Dwarf (8 September 1819)
Extract 5: from T. J. Wooler, The Black Dwarf (15 September 1819)

Political Economy, John Seed
Extract 1: from [Thomas Malthus] An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it effects the future improvement of society, with remarks on the speculations of Mr. Goodwin, M. Condorcet, and other writers (1787)
Extract 2: "Letter of Count Rumford to Dr. Majendie, Dec. 5, 1799" printed in Arthur Young, ed., Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts (1800)
Extract 3: from T. R. Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population: or, a View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry into our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions, second edition (1803)
Extract 4: from William Hazlitt, A Reply to the Essay on Population, by the Rev. T. R. Malthus. In a series of Letters, To which are added, Extracts from the Essay, with Notes (1807)
Extract 5: from Major Robert Torrens, "A Paper on the Means of Reducing the Poor's Rates, and of affording effectual and permanent relief to the Labouring Classes" in The Pamphleteer; Respectfully Dedicated to both Houses of Parliament (1817)
Extract 6: from David Ricardo, The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817)
Extract 7: from William Cobbett, Rural Rides (1830)
Extract 8: from the "Report from the Select Committee in Labourers Wages," in Parliamentary Papers (1824)
Extract 9: from William Cobbett, "To Lord John Russell, on the report of the Committee of the House of Commons to Inquire into the Practice of Paying the Wages of Labour out of the Poor-Rates," Cobbett's Weekly Register (14 August 1824)
Extract 10: from Nassau William Senior, Three Lectures on the rate of wages, delivered before the University of Oxford in Easter Term, 1830, with a Preface on the Causes and Remedies of the Present Disturbances (1830)

Atheism, Martin Priestman
Extract 1: from Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature (1803)
Extract 2: from William Godwin, "Of Religion" (1818)
Extract 3: Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Necessity of Atheism" (1811)
Extract 4: from Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Refutation of Deism: In a Dialogue (1814)
Extract 5: from Richard Carlile, An Address to Men of Science (1821)
Extract 6: from George Grote and Jeremy Bentham ("Philip Beauchamp"), An Analysis of the Influence of Natural Religion on the Temporal Happiness of Mankind (1822)
Extract 7: from Eliza Sharples ("The Lady of the Rotunda"), The Isis (1832)

Empire and Race, Kate Teltscher
Extract 1: from Daniel Lysons (comp.) Collectanea: Or a collection of Advertisements and Paragraphs from the Newspapers relating to Various Subjects (1810)
Extract 2: from Robert Wedderburn, The Axe Laid to the Root (1817)
Extract 3: from Elizabeth Heyrick, Immediate, not Gradual Abolition, or an Inquiry into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery (1824)
Extract 4: from William Lawrence, Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man (1819)
Extract 5: from Robert Southey, The Curse of Kehama (1818)
Extract 6: from James Mill, The History of British India (1817)
Extract 7: from Abu Talib Ibn Muhammad Khan Isfahani, The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, and Europe during the years 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802 and 1803 written by himself in the Persian Language, trans. Charles Stewart (1810)

Nation and State, Simon Edwards
Extract 1: from Lady Morgan [Sidney Oweson] The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale (1806)
Extract 2: from Lady Morgan [Sidney Oweson], "Absenteeism," in The New Monthly Magazine (1825)
Extract 3: [Thomas Moore], Appendix to Corruption and Intolerance: Two Poems with Notes Addressed to an Englishman by an Irishman (1808)
Extract 4: from [John Lockhart], Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk (1819)
Extract 5: from [John Lockhart], Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk (1819)
Extract 6: from [Walter Scott], "A Second Letter to the Editor of the Edinburgh Weekly Journal from Malachi Malagrowther Esq.," in Thoughts on the Proposed Change of Currency and Other Late Alterations As They Affect, or Are Intended to Affect the Kingdom of Scotland (1826)

Gender, Susan Matthews
Extract 1: from William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798)
Extract 2: from Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799)
Extract 3: from Henry Fuseli, Royal Academy Lectures (1801)
Extract 4: from John Evans, The Vanity of Human Expectations: A Tribute of Respect to the Beloved Memory of the Princess Charlotte (1817)
Extract 5: from Cobbett's Weekly Political Register (5 and 19, August 1820)
Extract 6: from Madame D'Arblay [Frances Burney] to Mrs. Lock (August 15, 1820)
Extract 7: from The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle (1822)
Extract 8: from Maria Edgeworth, Harry and Lucy Concluded (1825)

Literary Institutions, Catherine Bole and Zachary Leader
Extract 1: from John Taylor's Introduction to John Clare, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820)
Extract 2: John Clare to John Taylor (11 May 1820)
Extract 3: Eliza L. Emmerson to John Clare (11 May 1820)
Extract 4: John Clare to John Taylor (16 May 1820)
Extract 5: John Tayor to John Clare (6 June 1820)
Extract 6: J. G. Lockhart, from "Extracts from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" (June 1820)
Extract 7: John Clare to James Augustus Hessey ([10?] July 1820)
Extract 8: James Augustus Hessey to John Clare (11 July 1820)
Extract 9: from John Clare to John Taylor (c. 8 March 1820)
Extract 10: from John Taylor to John Clare (27, 29 September 1820)
Extract 11: from [Anon] Nobility Run Mad, or Raymond and His Three Wives (1802)
Extract 12: An anonymous review of Nobility Run Mad, or Raymond and His Three Wives, from The Annual Review (1802)
Extract 13: From John Wilson ("Christopher North"), "Monologue, or Soliloquy on the Annuals," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (December 1829)
Extract 14: Title-page, Introduction, plates 33, 35, and 41, and accompanying poems, from Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book: With Poetical Illustrations by L. E. L. [Letitia Elizabeth Landon] (1832)
Extract 15: Plates 42 and 49, and accompanying poems, from Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book: with Poetical Illustrations by L. E. L. (1833)

Notes

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