Recently added articles from Studies in Romanticism:
Managing propriety for the regency: Jane Austen reads the book.
Jun 22, 2009; ... IN FEBRUARY OF 1813, IN AN EFFORT TO PUBLICLY EMBARRASS HER ESTRANGED husband and exert pressure on him to allow her greater access to their daughter, Princess Caroline made good a long-standing threat to publish the proceedings of the 1806 "Delicate Investigation" into accusations of ...
Andrea K. Henderson. Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life.
Jun 22, 2009; ... Andrea K. Henderson. Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 295. $90.00. Andrea K. Henderson's terrific new study intervenes smartly in the recent debates over Romantic individualism in relation to modern ...
Novelistic sympathy in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... CHARACTERS IN MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN (ISIS) DESPERATELY SEEK but never find ideal sympathetic companionship, and the novel's plot "repeatedly dramatizes the failure of social sympathy." (1) But if sympathy in the novel can be said to fail because it is madly but fruitlessly pursued or ...
Wordsworth's "We Are Seven" and Crabbe's The Parish Register: poetry and anti-census.(William Wordsworth, George Crabbe)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... WORDSWORTH'S "WE ARE SEVEN"--AN EARLY, PERHAPS EVEN SELF-teaching poem, and not his final statement about poetry and quantification, if there was one--dramatizes ballad form, its "lowliest" meters and their risk of doggerel, as a stubborn register of conflicts between old and new counts. A ...
Citizen Juan Thelwall: in the footsteps of a free-range radical.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... IN A. S. BYATT'S NOVEL POSSESSION: A ROMANCE, A PAIR OF SCHOLARS USE their academic detective skills--a talent for research, scholarly dedication, a kind of educated serendipity--to unlock the secret romance behind the ashen, mothballed lives of two nineteenth-century poets. Though ...