Romantic Dynamics creatively collides English poetry with a wide range of exotic concepts associated with the 'new physics' of relativity and quantum to uncover their shared concerns for indeterminacy, uncertainty, relativity, and complexity in a chaotic universe. This interdisciplinary work traces the elaboration of dynamical models of cosmos and consciousness in works by Blake, Byron, Coleridge, the Shelleys and Wordsworth, finding in those works an exploration of the interpenetration of psyche and phenomena. This model, the author argues, establishes a new metaphoric terrain liberated from...

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romantic Writers and Writing presents a comprehensive reference volume on the writers, works, themes, and literary genres of the Romantic Period of British literature.

• Explores lesser-known figures--both men and women--as well as major writers
• Cross-referenced to allow readers to make connections between writers and concepts
• Includes a timeline of key historical and literary moments
• Contains detailed bibliographies for suggested further reading