Designed to survey the social, cultural and intellectual climate of English Romanticism from the 1780s to the 1830s, this encylopedia focusses on 'the spirit of the age', the aesthetic, scientific, socioeconomic - indeed the human - environment in which the Romantics flourished.

This encyclopedia is designed to survey the social, cultural and intellectual climate of English Romanticism from the 1780s and the French Revolution to the 1830s and the Reform Bill. Focusing on 'the spirit of the age', it deals with the aesthetic, scientific and socioeconomic environment in which the Romantics flourished.