Romanticism and the Letter

1.Introduction.- 2.Mary O’Connell, Romantic Letter Writing and the Publisher.- 3. Stephen Behrendt, The Letter and the Literary Circle: Mary Leadbeater, Melesina Trench, and the Epistolary Salon.- 4.Oliver Clarkson, The Disappointment of Wordsworth’s Letters.- 5.Susan J. Wolfson, Two Wordsworths: Mountain-climbing, Letter-writing.- 6. Gregory Leadbetter, ‘Hare and Hound’: Ends and Means in Coleridge’s Letters.- 7.Lynda Pratt, The ‘entire man of letters’?: Robert Southey, Correspondence, and Romantic Incompleteness.- 8. Timothy Webb, Charles Lamb and the Rattle of Existence.- 9. Joe Bray, The Tensions of Jane Austen’s Epistolary Style.- 10. Daniel Westwood, ‘Transported to your presence’: Leigh Hunt’s Letters to the Shelleys.- 11. Jane Stabler, ‘Foam is their foundation’: The Poetics of Byron’s letters.- 12.Madeleine Callaghan, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, and the Limits of Letters.- 13. Michael O’Neill, ‘The Varied Pauses of His Style’: Shelley’s Letters from Italy.- 14.Andrew Bennett, John Keats’s Epistolary Intimacy.- 15. Anthony Howe, ‘don’t imagine it an a propos des bottes’: Keats, the Letter, and the Poem.- 16. Angela Wright, ‘The house of misery’: Space and Memory in the Later Correspondence and Literature of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.