British Romantic Secondary sources

‘the romantics believed that children who were abused by society would become corrupted and damaged, and grow into violent, unstable adults’

Charlotte Gordon

‘society creates its own monsters’

Charlotte gordon

‘demystifying personal and social relations’

George Levine

‘romantic attempts to move beyond the limits of a confining reality’

George levine

‘guided by his own tastes rather than historical fact’

H. M. Richmond

‘these images had the dramatic, dreamlike simplicity’

H. M. Richmond

‘the diseased imagination was instead romanticized’

G. S. Rousseau

‘eighteenth-century science damages the artist and impelled him almost against his will’

G. S. Rousseau

‘attempts to relate his intense personal experience to patterns of general belief’

Spenser Hall

‘uniquely human identity in a largely alien natural world’

Spenser Hall

‘works to destroy the power of colonial signification’

Karen piper

‘innocence is born and has to exist in the world of experience’

Matt simpson

‘it needs… protectors and redeemers’

matt simpson

‘repeatedly the object of concern about the spiritual health of society at large’

David Fairer