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The rise of abolitionist verse in the late 1780s coincided with the end of the period of dominance of the heroic couplet, which had by then been the preeminent literary form for the best part of 15...
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The European Romantic Review publishes innovative scholarship on the literature and culture of Europe, Great Britain and the Americas during the period 1760-1840. Topics range from the scientific and psychological interests of German and English authors through the political and social reverberations of the French Revolution to the philosophical and ecological implications of Anglo-American nature writing. Selected papers from the annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism appear in one of the five issues published each year.