Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Characteristics and changes of the publishing system 11
1.1 Background of printing press and publishing industry 12
1.2 Changes of intellectual property 17
1.3 New development in the 19th century 22
Chapter 2 Reading public,reading nation and reading ethnics 29
2.1 The configuration of the mass readership 30
2.2 The coming of the reading nation 34
2.3 Romantic audiences in the eyes'of poets 41
2.4 The characteristics of the new reading ethnics 45
Chapter 3 Romantic poets'attitudes towards reading public and reading ethnics 55
3.1 Wordsworth's attitude towards reading masses 57
3.2 Hazlitt's public opinion and poetic principle 65
3.3 Keats'figuring reading public 77
3.4 Lamb's view of reading and criticism 88
Chapter 4 Poetry composition of the romantic poets under the new reading ethnics 97
4.1 Byron's writing and the Romantic curious readers 98
4.2 Coleridge's figuration of reader in conversation poems 141
4.3 Wordsworth's perpetuity and Wordsworthian audience 177
4.4 Keats's posthumous writing and Romantic postpone of fame 222
Bibliography 281
后记 293