Creating Romanticism

" . . . a fascinating and thoroughly convincing call to re-examine not just " Romanticism and Science" but " Romanticism" itself. If Ruston is correct about the deliberate use of scientific and medical ideas in some of the period' s foundational literary texts - and I have every confidence that she is - then Creating Romanticism should find an audience well beyond those of us interested in the science of the day and become required reading for all students of the period. " James Robert Allard, Keats-Shelley Journal

" . . . offers a lively, de-centred view of British Romanticism, considered from the multiple vantage points provided by the complex structure of its intellectual and social networks" . Noah Heringman, The Keats-Shelly Review

' Ruston' s book offers a valuable addition to the long history of research into science in the Romantic era: its strength resides particularly in its grasp of the political sub-texts of the interpretation of scientific ideas in the period, as wellas in the accounts of little-discussed texts, and in the importance it rightly accords to Davy. ' Edward Larrissy, The BARS Review