Wordsworth Circle back issues from September 2004:
Sonnet Series and Itinerary Poems, 1820-1845.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... William Wordsworth, Sonnet Series and Itinerary Poems, 1820-1845 ed. Geoffrey Jackson (Cornell Univ. Pr. 2004) lii +969 $115.00 All of the volumes in the Cornell Wordsworth series have been labors of love, acts of imagination and models of professional diligence: ...
William Wordsworth: The Critical Heritage (Volume I: 1793-1820).(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Robert Woof, ed. William Wordsworth: The Critical Heritage (Volume I: 1793-1820) (Routledge, 2001) xx + 1092 $295.00 A reviewer of Robert Woof's monumental William Wordsworth: The Critical Heritage (Volume I: 1793-1820) may perhaps be forgiven for recalling the first ...
Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont (1800-1808).(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Richard E. Matlak, Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont (1800-1808) (Univ. of Delaware Pr. 2003) 201pp. $43.50 With a dolorous but apt title, Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont (1800-1808), ...
British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Simon Bainbridge, British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict (Oxford Univ. Pr., 2003) ix + 259. $74.00 J.R. Watson, Romanticism and War: A Study of Romantic Period Writers and the Napoleonic Wars (Palgrave Macmillan, ...
Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Jon Mee, Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (Oxford Univ. Pr. 2003), x + 320. $80.00 "Enthusiasm," as Locke defined it, is "a perswasion of an immediate intercourse with the Deity" that is "founded ...
Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... William Keach, Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics (Princeton University Press, 2004) xvi + 191 $39.50 In this brief book, Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics, William Keach gathers pieces of work that have appeared over more than fifteen ...
British Satire 1785-1840.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... John Strachan, General Ed., Steven E. Jones, Consulting Ed., British Satire 1785-1840 (Pickering and Chatto 2003) 5 vols. 2184 pp. $750 Vol. I Shorter Satires ed. Nicholas Mason Vol. II Extracts from Longer Satires ed. David Walker Vol. III ...
The Traveller in the Evening: The Last Works of William Blake.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Morton D. Paley, The Traveller in the Evening: The Last Works of William Blake. (Oxford University Press, 2003) 332 pp. 38 illus. $85.00. In his composite art, Blake created a system that includes an aggregate of esthetic, political, religious, economic, historical, ...
William Blake and the Body.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Tristanne J. Connolly, William Blake and the Body (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) 272 pp. $75.00 Shirley Dent and Jason Whittaker, Radical Blake: Afterlife and Influence from 1827 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) 256 pp. $65.00 Alexander S. Gourlay, Ed ....
Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: Poetry and the Mediation of History.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Kevis Goodman, Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: Poetry and the Mediation of History. (Cambridge Univ. Pr. 2004) iv+ 225 $75.00 Kevis Goodman's Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism is both a thoughtful history of eighteenth-century georgic practices and ...
Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... G. Gabriella Starr, Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century. (Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr., 2004) x + 298 $42.00. For fifteen years or so, using a term provided by Mikhail Bakhtin, some Wordsworthians have characterized Wordsworth's lyric ...
Theater Figures: The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Emily Allen, Theater Figures: The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel (Ohio State Univ. Pr. 2003) viii+ 254 $ 74.95/$25.95 pr. With a bow to Bourdieu, Emily Allen's ambitious debut, Theater Figures: The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British ...
Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostalgia.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Stephen Cheeke, Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostalgia (Palgrave 2003) ix + 241 $69.95 As geography takes a place beside history as a discipline of value to students of literature, places and spaces have become ever more fascinating to Romantic scholars. Few ...
Literary Memory: Scott's Waverley Novels and the Psychology of Narrative.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Catherine Jones, Literary Memory: Scott's Waverley Novels and the Psychology of Narrative (Bucknell Univ. Pr. 2003) 249 pp $46.00. These are good days to be working on Walter Scott. Interest in his influential and multi-faceted career has dramatically increased, as ...
Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Colonial Sublime.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Luke Gibbons, Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Colonial Sublime (Cambridge Univ. Pr. 2003) xiv + 304. $60.00 In Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime, Luke Gibbons offers a coherent explanation of Burke's ...
English Romanticism and the Celtic World.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Gerard Carruthers and Alan Rawes, ed. English Romanticism and the Celtic World (Cambridge Univ. Pr. 2003) xi +265 $70.00 There was a time when a book entitled English Romanticism and the Celtic World would have seemed untroubling--suggesting perhaps a straightforward ...
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Jerrold E. Hogle, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge Univ. Pr. 2002) 327 + xxv $25.00 pr. Avril Horner, ed. European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 1760-1960 (Manchester Univ. Pr. 2002) 260 + xii $25.00 D. L. Macdonald, Monk ...
Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Ellen Brinks, Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism (Bucknell Univ. Pr. 2003) 219 pp. $45.00 In Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism, Ellen Brinks pursues the implications ...
Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790-1840.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Catherine Burroughs, ed., Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790-1840 (Cambridge Univ. Pr. 2000) xvi + 344 $60.00 Jane Moody, Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770-1840 (Cambridge Univ. Pr. 2000) xii + 278 $75.00 ...
The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Charlotte Turner Smith, The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith, ed. Judith Phillips Stanton (Indiana Univ. Pr. 2003). xlvii + 813 $59.95 Exhaustion, like an eternal sigh, emanates from The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith. The letters Judith Phillips Stanton has ...
Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Deborah Kennedy, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. (Bucknell Univ. Pr. 2002) 276 pp. $49.50 Deborah Kennedy has produced a significant literary biography on Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827), and, as its title implies, richly imbued--and deeply read--in ...
The Rebellion of the Beasts: Or, The Ass is Dead! Long Live the Ass!!!(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Leigh Hunt, The Rebellion of the Beasts: Or, The Ass is Dead! Long Live the Ass!!! Introd. Douglas A. Anderson (Wicker Park Pr., 2004) xv + 151. $21.95 John Sprat, Cambridge undergraduate, breaks into the library at Magdalene College and makes off with a manuscript ...
The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... William Hazlitt, The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, ed. Duncan Wu 9 Vols (Pickering and Chatto Publishers, 1998) 3656 pp. $10935.00 This edition includes in nine handsome volumes the fullest selection of Hazlitt's work currently available. Because for many ...
John Clare: A Biography.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Jonathan Bate, John Clare: A Biography (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and London: Picador, 2003), xix + 648. $40.00/[pounds sterling]25 Jonathan Bate, ed., "I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), xxiii ...
Romantic Biography.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Arthur Bradley and Alan Rawes, eds. Romantic Biography. (Ashgate, 2003) xviii + 202 $69.95. Romantic Biography assembles a dozen essays by British "writers and readers of Romantic lives" to consider, evaluate, define, and promote multiple projects deriving from life ...
The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... William St Clair, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge Univ. Pr. 2004), xxix + 765 $150.00. William St. Clair's The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period is an extraordinarily ambitious and impressive attempt to reformulate our knowledge of literary ...
The Writings of the Luddites.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Kevin Binfield, ed., The Writings of the Luddites (Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr, 2004) xxviii+279. $49.95 Kevin Binfield's The Writings of the Luddites appears at a significant moment in the history of technology and culture. When E. P. Thompson famously said in the Making ...
The Works of Thomas De Quincey.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Grevel Lindop, gen. ed., The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vols. 8-9, 12-14, 17-18 (Pickering & Chatto, 2001) $825/[pounds sterling]550 Grevel Lindop, gen. ed., The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vols. 10-11, 15-16, 19-21 (Pickering & Chatto, 2003) $825/[pounds sterling]550 ...
Romantic Periodicals and Print Culture.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Kim Wheatley, ed. Romantic Periodicals and Print Culture (Frank Cass, 2003), ix + 173 $96.95 Thomas Carlyle once swore that he would rather "wash his face in a dirty puddle" than write for the periodical press, and while he also exploited the medium with great savvy ...
Imperfect Sympathies: Jews and Judaism in British Romantic Literature and Culture.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Judith W. Page, Imperfect Sympathies: Jews and Judaism in British Romantic Literature and Culture. (Palgrave 2004) xiv + 257 $59.95. What was a Romantic Jew to do? As Judith W. Page makes clear in her valuable book, Imperfect Sympathies: Jews and Judaism in British ...
Image of the Sea: Oceanic Consciousness in the Romantic Century.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Howard Isham, Image of the Sea: Oceanic Consciousness in the Romantic Century (Peter Lang 2004) xxiii + 415 60 illus. $81.95 Howard Isham's Image of the Sea: Oceanic Consciousness in the Romantic Century proposes to "explore the unprecedented surge or oceanic feeling ...
Literature and Science, 1660-1834.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Literature and Science, 1660-1834, Part 2, General Editor Judith Hawley. 4 vols. $525 Volume 5, Fauna, Edited by David Clifford, xxxi + 509 Volume 6, Astronomy, Edited by Rob Iliffe, xix + 427 Volume 7, Natural Philosophy, Edited by Rob Iliffe, xxiii + 430 ...
"Enough! or Too much": Probable, Possible, and Impossible Histories of the 1790s.(William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790's)(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Saree Makdisi, William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790's (Univ. of Chicago Pr. 2002) xviii+392 $22.00 When Romanticists periodically re-date or re-define the period, whether they start at 1760, 1776, or 1789, the 1790's fit in comfortably. But the most ...