Reading, Writing, and Romanticism - The Anxiety of Reception (Paperback, Revised)

This book makes an important contribution to current debates about reading, audiences, and publishing in the Romantic period, while also exploring the competitive/collaborative relationship between creativity and criticism. Lucy Newlyn examines how readers are imagined, addressed, figured and understood in Romantic poetry and criticism. Non-canonical writers are included, and special attention is given to the emergence of women's poetry.