Studies in Romanticism articles from December 2000

Studies in Romanticism archives from December 2000

Framing the Corpus: Godwin's "Editing" of Wollstonecraft in 1798.(Mary Wollstonecraft; William Godwin)
December 22, 2000... IN 1798 WILLIAM GODWIN PUBLISHED BOTH HIS MEMOIRS OF WOLLSTONECRAFT and his posthumous gathering of her works, including her unfinished novel The Wrongs of Woman.(1) Godwin's Memoirs were so controversial that he was forced to issue a second,...

William Godwin's Foreign Language: Stories and Families in Caleb Williams and Political Justice.
December 22, 2000... IT IS NOW WIDELY ACCEPTED THAT BOTH GODWIN'S TREATISE, AN ENQUIRY Concerning Political Justice (1793) and his major work of narrative fiction, Things As They Are; Or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) are "designed to achieve change and...

Godwin's Suspicion of Speech Acts.(William Godwin)
December 22, 2000... WILLIAM GODWIN DOES NOT TRUST WORDS TO DO THINGS. BECAUSE OF this, his contributions to the theory of language and its function in society have an unexpectedly conservative ring, compared with other ideas about language that arose at the end of...

Godwin, Provocation, and the Plot of Anger.(William Godwin)
December 22, 2000... I was angry with my friend I told my wrath my wrath did end I was angry with my foe I told it not my wrath did grow --Blake, "A Poison Tree" WILLIAM BLAKE'S "A POISON TREE" SUGGESTS THAT ACTING UPON ANGER puts an end...

"Professed Enemies of Politeness": Sincerity and the Problem of Gender in Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... WOLLSTONECRAFT'S VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN (1792) identifies dissimulation as a specifically female problem. Attacking modesty as the embodiment of insincerity, Wollstonecraft aligns femininity with deceptiveness and suggests that as a...

"Ruinous Mixture": Godwin, Enclosure and the Associated Self.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... The subject of property is the key-stone that completes the fabric of political justice. --William Godwin, Political Justice (2.420) The purpose... of early instruction is not absolute. It is of less importance, generally speaking,...

Coleridge's Writings, Volume 3: On Language.(Review)
December 22, 2000... A. C. Goodson, ed. Coleridge's Writings, Volume 3: On Language. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xv+202. $59.95. The publication of a book entitled On Language might well appear to be something of an anachronism in our current...

Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink, 1780-1830.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Anya Taylor. Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink, 1780-1830. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xi+264. $65.00. Over the past two decades romantic studies scholarship has focused its efforts on de-romanticizing the...

A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Elizabeth A. Fay. A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. Pp. 256. 6 ills. $54.95/$24.95 paper. Drawing heavily on the many new historical and feminist interrogations of British romantic texts over the last decade,...

Gothic Pathologies: The Text, The Body and The Law.(Review)
December 22, 2000... David Punter. Gothic Pathologies: The Text, The Body and The Law. New York: Macmillan, 1998. Pp. xi+251. David Punter's Gothic Pathologies argues that "in Gothic... we in the West most recently confronted again, and continue to confront,...

Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontes.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Diane Long Hoeveler. Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontes. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. Pp. xix+250. $40.00. David Punter's Gothic Pathologies argues that...