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From the editor.
Jan 01, 2008 ... From the Editor: The papers in this issue of The Wordsworth Circle were selected from those delivered at the 2007 annual meeting of the International Conference on Romanticism and are published in celebration of its founder and director, Larry Peer, who had warned us that he was about to ...
On the Romantic thing.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Davis, William S. ... The Colorado College In October, 1798, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, age twenty-three, rode into Jena to take up the professorship that Goethe helped arrange for him. He had already published seven books of critical philosophy as well as a treatise on mythology. (1) ...
The transatlantic romance of celestial motion: revolutionary objects and fictional historiography.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Gunn, Robert Lawrence ... In 1797, John Swanwick, a prosperous Philadelphia merchant, Republican member of Congress, and anti-Cobbett pamphleteer, published his one book of poems. It contains a memorial poem dedicated to David Rittenhouse, the internationally renowned astronomer and mechanist from Philadelphia who, ...
"The mighty commonwealth of things": The deep characters of knowledge in Wordsworth's the excursion.(William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Farina, Jonathan ... The Excursion (1814) teems with the "real" objects and concrete particulars that critics identify with "realism." This profusion of objects provoked Francis Jeffrey's accusations of "details of preposterous minuteness," "useless and most tedious minuteness," and "circumstances of no ...
Superstition, the national imaginary, and religious politics in Wordsworth's ecclesiastical sketches.(William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Tomko, Michael ... Enthusiasm, the individualistic energy derived from radical Protestantism, has become a central critical category for reconsidering what Robert Ryan has termed "romantic religious politics," or the way that Romantic theological diction enacted a "creative and effective engagement in the ...
Dorothy Wordsworth's "gratitude to insensate things": gardening in the grasmere journals.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Page, Judith W. ... " ... am I fanciful when I would extend the obligation of gratitude to insensate things?" (WW Letters, 274-75) In this paper, I analyze Dorothy Wordsworth's presentation of nature in the Grasmere Journals from two perspectives: wild nature in and around Grasmere and the garden ...
Shelley incinerated.(Percy Shelley)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Gamer, Michael ... Cor Cordium --Leigh Hunt, epitaph composed for Shelley's tomb in Rome Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. --William Shakespeare, The Tempest, I: ii 400-2; epitaph inscribed on ...
The literal and literary circulation of Amelia Curran's portrait of Percy Shelley.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Hoeveler, Diane Long ... Henry James's novella The Aspern Papers (1888; rev. 1908) has typically been read as a critical examination of the literary scholar's obsession with the mystery of creativity (Person). There are numerous autobiographical resonances to James's own life in the tale, for instance, his ...
Private souvenirs: exchanges among Byron's Southwell set.(George Byron)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Schoenfield, Mark ... Byron's celebrity, recently charted by Tom Mole from his 1812 "An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill," to the self-conscious scrutiny and deployment in Don Juan, is filled with souvenirs, gifts exchanged, tokens kept and transformed by the keeping. Many of these souvenirs are body parts, ...
Crocodiles and 'inoculation' reconsidered: De Quincey, opium, and the dream object.(Thomas De Quincey)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Schmid, Thomas H. ... "Some merely physical agencies can and do assist the faculty of dreaming almost preternaturally," Thomas De Quincey claims in the "Introductory Notice" to Suspiria de Profundis; "beyond all others is opium" (90-1). In the Confessions of an English Opium Eater, De Quincey traces the effects ...
The figure of the hermit in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Lokke, Kari ... In The Guardian, October 2, 2007, Jon Henley tells the tale of Keith Lane, a fifty-seven year old window-washer who patrols the cliffs of Beachy Head nightly, talking would-be suicides out of ending their lives. Though he has saved twenty-nine people since his wife took her own life there ...
"Talking" and reading Shakespeare in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.(William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Harlan, Susan ... In Volume III of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), Fanny Price and Henry Crawford read Shakespeare's King Henry VIII out loud to Mrs. Bertram. Like Shakespeare's King Lear and Elizabeth Inchbald's Lover's Vows, two other plays Austen includes, King Henry VIII negotiates a theoretical ...
Watches and watching time in British romantic comedy.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Purinton, Marjean D. ... One of the consequences of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain was the re-imagining of time while horology and chronometry as arts and as industry changed people's relationship to temporal activities. For the first time, labor and laborers were "on the clock," and the pace at which ...
Traveling pleasures and perils of Sensibility.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Nagle, Christopher ... The philosophical investment in the pleasures of sympathy--especially if represented as contagious--provides a continuity between the traditions of Sensibility and of Romanticism. To illustrate, I pair two blockbusters of the first decade of the nineteenth-century, Sydney Owenson's The ...
"Things forever speaking" and "Objects of all thought".(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Gaull, Marilyn ... "Things forever speaking" and "Objects of all thought": the phrases are from Wordsworth, the first, a Matthew poem, the second "Tintern Abbey," but variations of them appear throughout his verse. To contemporary readers, in the vernacular, they seem interchangeable (although not ...
To be a thing: Wordsworth's "A slumber did my spirit seal" and the paradox of corporealization.(William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Rzepka, Charles J. ... Aside from a few Shakespearean soliloquies, the eight lines of Wordsworth's "A slumber did my spirit seal" have probably garnered more critical attention in proportion to their number than any other passage of verse in the history of English literature. They've probably incited more ...