Introduction

Chapter 1 Characteristics and changes of the publishing system

1.1 Background of printing press and publishing industry

1.2 Changes of intellectual property

1.3 New development in the 19th century

Chapter 2 Reading public,reading nation and reading ethnics

2.1 The configuration of the mass readership

2.2 The coming of the reading nation

2.3 Romantic audiences in the eyes'of poets

2.4 The characteristics of the new reading ethnics

Chapter 3 Romantic poets'attitudes towards reading public and reading ethnics

3.1 Wordsworth's attitude towards reading masses

3.2 Hazlitt's public opinion and poetic principle

3.3 Keats'figuring reading public

3.4 Lamb's view of reading and criticism

Chapter 4 Poetry composition of the romantic poets under the new reading ethnics

4.1 Byron's writing and the Romantic curious readers

4.2 Coleridge's figuration of reader in conversation poems

4.3 Wordsworth's perpetuity and Wordsworthian audience

4.4 Keats's posthumous writing and Romantic postpone of fame

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