Recently added articles from Studies in Romanticism:
"Which is the merchant here? and which the Jew?": friends and enemies in Walter Scott's crusader novels.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE PERFORMANCE HISTORY OF THE MERCHANT OF Venice there would have been little or no motive to attend to the line I take here as my title. If the stage is crowded, with Shylock skulking somewhere in the background and Antonio indistinguishable from the other well-dressed ...
Lyrical feeling: Novalis' anthropology of the senses.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... SCHOLARS HAVE RECENTLY BEGUN TO RECONSIDER KANT'S PHILOSOPHICAL project, and the Enlightenment project for which it often stands, as "one of bridging, not just sounding the abyss of dualism between reason and nature." (1) And, as Immanuel Kant writes in his Logic, to consider the unity of ...
Blake's "Tyger" as Miltonic beast.(William Blake and John Milton)(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... WILLIAM BLAKE'S "TYGER" IN SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, 1794, ROAMS throughout the poet s later symbolical books, and despite the intense scrutiny that scholars have dedicated to Blake's famous beast, it has not been recognized that imagery referencing the genesis, evolution, and redemption of ...
"Her ideas arranged themselves": re-membering poetry in Radcliffe.(Ann Radcliffe)(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... IN 1810 ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD WROTE SOMEWHAT ANXIOUSLY ABOUT the tendency of readers to skip over the poems in Ann Radcliffe's novels: <Pre>It ought not to be forgotten that there are many elegant pieces ofpoetry interspersed through the volumes of Mrs. Radcliffe .... The ...
"Jerusalem is scattered abroad": Blake's Ottoman geographies.(William Blake)(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... They came up to Jerusalem; they walked before Albion / In the Exchanges of London every Nation walkd / And London walkd in every Nation mutual in love & harmony / Albion coverd the whole Earth, England encompassd the Nations,/ ... From bright Japan & China to Hesperia France & England. / ...
"To Wordsworth" and the "White Obi"'. slavery, determination, and contingency in Shelley's Peter Bell the Third.(Percy Shelley)(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... ONCE MORE INVOKING POETRY IN ADVANCE OF SCIENCE--IN THIS CASE prophesying the development of a radioactive decay-calculus that modern biologists call "half-life"--Percy Shelley's sonnet "To Wordsworth" reads as an epitaph for a man still alive. As in so many other efforts of Shelley, the ...
Timothy Morton. Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Timothy Morton. Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xii+249. $49.95. Provocative may be too mild a word to characterize Timothy Morton's challenging, exuberant, irreverent, exhausting and unquestionably ...
Anya Taylor. Erotic Coleridge: Women, Love, and the Law Against Divorce.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Anya Taylor. Erotic Coleridge: Women, Love, and the Law Against Divorce. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 219. $74-95. In Erotic Coleridge: Women, Love, and the Law Against Divorce (now in its second printing) Anya Taylor's aim is two-fold. First, she wishes to evoke ...
Regina Hewitt. Symbolic Interactions: Social Problems and Literary Interventions in the Works of Baillie, Scott, and Landor.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Regina Hewitt. Symbolic Interactions: Social Problems and Literary Interventions in the Works of Baillie, Scott, and Landor. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2006. Pp. 280. $49.50. Regina Hewitt's Possibilities of Society: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Sociological ...
Sara Guyer. Romanticism after Auschwitz.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Sara Guyer. Romanticism after Auschwitz. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. 364. $55.00. There was a time when theoretical debates in the province of romantic studies reverberated throughout the domain of literary studies. That time now lies decidedly behind us, and ...
J.H. Reynolds re-Echoes the Wordsworthian reputation: "Peter Bell," remaking the work and mocking the man.(William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... FOLLOWING THE PUBLICATION OF THE EXCURSION (1814) AND HIS COLLECTED Poems (1815), several of Wordsworth's reviewing critics and parodists became acutely wary of and satirically invested in how Wordsworth's poems were "bound each to each." (1) More specifically, along with J. H. Reynolds' ...
Keats and the charm of words: making sense of the Eve of St. Agnes.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... READERS OF KEATS'S POETRY HAVE LONG SPOKEN OF THE ENCHANTING power of his language, though not all have found this quality commendable. Early critics complained of the "charm" or "force" of the rhymes in Keats's first published volume, Poems (1817), because it seemed to replace the verse's ...
Hidden polemic in Wollstonecraft's letters from Norway: a Bakhtinian reading.(Mary Wollstonecraft)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT'S LETTERS WRITTEN DURING A SHORT RESIDENCE in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark is probably one of the most interesting and complex literary works of its time in terms of genre/style. It combines a great variety of generic forms and discursive styles in a polyphonic ...
The wrong marriage: Maturin and the double-logic of masculinity in the unionist Gothic.(Charles Robert Maturin)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Real partisanship, which is the virtue of artworks no less than of men and women, resides in the depths, where social antinomies become the dialects of form: By leading them to language through the synthesis of the work, artists do their part socially. --Theodor W. Adorno, ...
Representing rural leisure: John Clare and the politics of popular culture.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... WHILE HAROLD BLOOM FAMOUSLY LABELED THE AGRICULTURAL LABORER and poet John Clare a "Wordsworthian shadow," most critics have challenged the notion of Clare's derivativeness, arguing that his poems offer a new way of representing nature. (1) For Clare, natural objects are meaningful in ...
The liturgical context of the Byron-Nathan Hebrew Melodies.(Isaac Nathan and Lord Byron)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... AFTER A CENTURY AND A HALF OF NEGLECT, BYRON'S HEBREW MELODIES began to attract renewed interest in the last quarter of the twentieth century. In 1972, Thomas L. Ashton published his comprehensive edition of the lyrics, with an introduction that discusses the collaboration with Isaac ...
David Worrall. Theatric Revolution: Drama, Censorship and Romantic Period Subcultures 1773-1832.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... David Worrall. Theatric Revolution: Drama, Censorship and Romantic Period Subcultures 1773-1832. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 407. $125.00 cloth/$55.00 paper. Theatric Revolution delivers what it promises in the opening sentence, where author David Worrall sets out ...
Jeffrey C. Robinson. Unfettering Poetry: Fancy in British Romanticism.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Jeffrey C. Robinson. Unfettering Poetry: Fancy in British Romanticism. Houndnfills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. 30l. $79-95. In Unfettering Poetry: Fancy in British Romanticism Jeffrey Robinson brings a most welcome focus on poetics to a field that has felt the ...
Jack Stillinger. Romantic Complexity: Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Jack Stillinger. Romantic Complexity: Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. 264. $45.00 cloth/$25.00 paper. In 1971, Jack Stillinger published The Hoodwinking of Madeline and Other Essays on Keats's Poems, a collection of (mostly) ...
Books received.
Sep 22, 2008 ... Adams, Carol, Douglas Buchanan, and Kelly Gesch. The Bedside, Bathtub, & Armchair Companion to Frankenstein. New York: Continuum, 2007. $60.00 cloth/$14.95 paper. Alcott, Amos Bronson. Notes of Conversations, 1848-1875. Ed. Karen English. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, ...