Romanticism and the Rise of the Mass Public »

Andrew Franta is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Utah.

Franta redefines Romanticism's contribution to modern conceptions of politics and publicity.

Introduction: the regime of publicity;

1. Public opinion from Burke to Byron;
2. Wordsworth's audience problem;
3. Keats and the review aesthetic;
4. Shelley and the politics of political poetry;
5. The art of printing and the law of libel;
6. The right of private judgment; Bibliography.