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Studies in Romanticism archives from December 2002
"Everybody's Shakespeare": representative genres and John Boydell's Winter's Tale.
December 22, 2002... What injury (short of the theatres) did not Boydell's "Shakespeare Gallery" do me with Shakespeare! To have Opie's Shakespeare, Northcote's Shakespeare, light-headed Fuseli's Shakespeare, heavy-headed Romney's Shakespeare, wooden-headed West's...
Epistemologies of rupture: the problem of nature in Schelling's philosophy.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2002... IN HIS 1801 ESSAY THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FICHTE'S AND SCHELLING'S System of Philosophy, Hegel set out that difference in terms of a contrast between reflective and speculative philosophy. Dichotomy, rupture [Entzweiung], he argued, gives rise...
Coleridge's Sonnets from Various Authors (1796): a lost conversation poem?
December 22, 2002... IN AUTUMN 1796, SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE PUT TOGETHER A MODEST little pamphlet (so modest it has no title) which offers a case-history of how texts can gather new and even urgent meanings through the circumstances of their transmission. Hitherto...
"Dark catastrophe of passion": the "Indian" as human commodity in nineteenth-century British theatrical culture.
December 22, 2002... THE MELANCHOLY NATIVE AMERICAN MAY HAVE GAINED CULTURAL ASCENDANCY in England through the popularity of American writers like James Fenimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant, but the sorrows of the "Indian" appealed to the nineteenth-century...
"The most useful of citizens": towards a romantic literary professionalism.
December 22, 2002... How few authors or artists have arrived at eminence who have not lived by their employment?
--Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
1. "Things Shall be Valued in Proportion as They...
Cain: Lord Byron's sincerity.
December 22, 2002... BYRON'S 1821 CAIN: A MYSTERY ASKS SOME OBVIOUS AND IMPORTANT questions. At least, they are obvious and important if one takes the book of Genesis literally, as some of his readers then did, and a few still do. Why are the children of Adam and...
Richard Eldridge. The Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in Philosophy and Literature.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 251. $54.95 cloth/$19.95 paper.
Selections of essays are always queried as to what holds the individual pieces together. In answer to that question, you could say of this book's first part,...
Jack Stillinger. Reading "The Eve of St. Agnes": the Multiples of Complex Literary Transaction.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 186. $49.95.
Every now and then a book comes along which persuades us that somehow the theoretical problematic of reading need no longer be a concern. Our fretting is at an end, and...
David Vallins. Coleridge and the Psychology of Romanticism: Feeling and Thought.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. xii+221. $65.00.
In Coleridge and the Psychology of Romanticism, David Vallins seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of Coleridge's conception of the human mind. The term "psychology" is used here...
Linda Lang-Peralta, ed., Women, Revolution, and the Novels of the 1790s.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999. Pp. 192. $21.95.
In 1796, Thomas Matthias complained, in his satire The Pursuits of Literature, that gothic fictions "had propagated their species with unequalled fecundity. The spawn is...
Jennifer Wallace. Shelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1997. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. 261.
In this highly informative book, Jennifer Wallace argues that the assimilation of Hellenic classicism into British culture was a relatively late phenomenon....
Anne K. Mellor. Mothers of the Nation: Women's Political Writing in England, 1780-1830.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2000. Pp. 172. $39.95.
In a captivating section of Mothers of the Nation, Anne Mellor describes a board game called "The Delicious Game of the Fruit-Basket, or Moral and Intellectual Dessert" (1822). In this game,...