Books by Theresa M. Kelley

Essays forging a new definition of Romanticism that includes the wide range of women's artistic expression.

This book offers a fresh understanding of the role of aesthetics in Wordsworth's major poetry and prose. Professor Kelley's 1988 text proposes aesthetic and geological precedents for this aesthetic model and evaluates its differences from the models developed by Burke, Kant and Hegel.

How and why has allegory survived, despite the Romantic critique of it as an outdated and artificial literary mode? This wide-ranging 1997 study of allegory in theory and literary practice from the late Renaissance to the present day argues that Romanticism represented the pivotal moment in allegory's survival.