Studies in Romanticism articles from December 2003

Studies in Romanticism archives from December 2003

Kindling and ash: radical aestheticism in Keats and Shelley.
December 22, 2003... 1. "Touch the very pulse of fire / With my bare unlidded eyes" I TAKE THE TITLE OF MY OPENING SECTION FROM KEATS'S "SONG OF FOUR Fairies," and specifically from its rhapsody on flame. While the spirits of air and water are left to their...

Coming attractions: Lamia and cinematic sensation.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2003... The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images. Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless...

"Unrememberable" sound in Wordsworth's 1799 Prelude.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2003... I. Quietude WORDSWORTH IS THE POET OF "THE GRAND ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLE OF pleasure," but also of stark pictures of suffering. Not just a contradiction to be contained, the seeming antagonism of pleasure and pain takes us to the heart of...

Protest, "nativism," and impersonation in the works of Chatterton and Keats.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2003... THOMAS CHATTERTON'S INFLUENCE ON JOHN KEATS HAS BEEN ADDRESSED by a number of critics, most of whom point out echoes of Chatterton s poetry in Keats's work or trace the importance of Chatterton's image as a frail victim of a hostile society on...

The Wordsworths, the Greens, and the limits of sympathy.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2003... ON MARCH 19, 1808, GEORGE AND SARAH GREEN, HUSBAND AND WIFE, perished in Langdale Fell during a storm, leaving behind eight orphaned children, all under the age of sixteen and six under age eleven, an event which threw "the whole vale," in...

Deborah Elise White. Romantic Returns: Superstition, Imagination, History.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. 227. $45.00. As the latest round of historicism retreats into history, it is increasingly apparent that the challenge it presented to the theoretical discourse on literature has missed its...

Angela Esterhammer. The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+357. $55.00. With Angela Esterhammer's The Romantic Performative, speech-act theory comes of age in romanticism studies. Although there have been numerous books and articles challenging and...

Sheila A. Spector. "Glorious Incomprehensible": the Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Language, and "Wonders Divine": the Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Myth.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press/London: Associated University Presses, 2001. Pp. 202 ("Glorious")/213 ("Wonders"). $59.50 each. Sheila Spector's reputation is based on her--gloriously comprehensible work on Hebrew and kabbalistic...

Jonathan David Gross. Byron: the Erotic Liberal.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 200L Pp. xi + 230. $78.00 cloth/$21.95 paper. The habit of taking liberties with freedom has a long history, and an especially revealing one at times when "freedom itself" (to use the...

Michael Gamer. Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre, Reception, and Canon-Formation.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 255. $59.95. The gothic was a harbinger of romanticism, but, aside from asserting the priority of the gothic, that post hoc formula leaves the historical relationship entirely unexplained. We...

Michael Eberle-Sinatra, ed. Mary Shelley's Fictions: from "Frankenstein" to "Falkner.".(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... New York: St. Martin's Press/Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xxvi + 250. $75.00. A recent electronic exchange on a romanticism list-server illustrates some of the difficulties and prejudices still encountered when discussing the other Mary Shelley,...