Studies in Romanticism articles from December 2004

Studies in Romanticism archives from December 2004

Byron's Don Juan as a global allegory.(Lord Byron)
December 22, 2004... THE DEDICATION IS ONE OF THE MOST CITED PASSAGES IN DON JUAN, YET literary critics have not fully explored its implications for the nature of Byron's social satire. It is used as evidence for Byron's disagreement with a poet like Wordsworth...

Seeing things ("as they are"): Coleridge, Schiller, and the play of semblance.
December 22, 2004... 1 COLERIDGE IS NOT BEST KNOWN AS A PLAYWRIGHT, OR EVEN AS A THEORIST of the stage, in spite of his sustained critical assessment of late eighteenth-century theater--itself familiar to readers chiefly through his lectures on Shakespeare...

The "perpetual exercise of an interminable quest": the Biographia Literaria and the Kantian revolution.
December 22, 2004... 1. Mr. Flosky, Mr. Coleridge, Professor Kant, and Jacques Lacan THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK'S SEND UP OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE IN Nightmare Abbey says more than its apparently reductive satire at first suggests. Through Nightmare Abbey's...

Fluttering on the grate: revision in "frost at midnight".
December 22, 2004... WHILE EXAMINING THE PROOFS OF SIBYLLINE LEAVES IN 1817, SAMUEL Taylor Coleridge found Frost at Midnight in an unexpected place, the section of "Poems Occasioned by Political Events or Feelings Connected with Them." In addition to providing his...

"Look in my face": the dramatic ethics of The Borderers.
December 22, 2004... REEVE PARKER'S EXCELLENT ARTICLE ON THE BORDERERS, "'IN SOME SORT Seeing With My Proper Eyes': Wordsworth and the Spectacles of Paris," begins with the specter of Mortimer wandering alone on the barren heath, where "[n]o human ear shall ever...

"Hauntings from the infirmity of love": Wordsworth and the illusion of pastoral.
December 22, 2004... 1 IN 1815 WORDSWORTH PUBLISHED A REVISED TEXT OF "ELEGIAC STANZAS Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm" in which he commemorated the "fond illusion" (29) of his youthful faith in the invulnerable calm that he had shared with...

Paul Hamilton. Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Paul Hamilton. Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 316. $65.00. In Metaromanticism, Paul Hamilton presents the romantic period as an epochal moment in the history of ideas, one in...

Tilottama Rajan and Arkady Plotnitsky, editors. Idealism Without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Tilottama Rajan and Arkady Plotnitsky, editors. Idealism Without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. Pp. 262. $50.00. The subtitle of this book will seem to some readers a flagrant...

Rei Terada. Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the "Death of the Subject.".(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Rei Terada. Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the "Death of the Subject." Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xii+211. $47.00 cloth/$29.95 paper. Feeling in Theory is such an engaging and interesting study...

Simon Bainbridge. British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Simon Bainbridge. British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 259. $74.00. In his succinct study of an extensive corpus of poetry that emerged in...

Josephine McDonagh. Child Murder and British Culture 1720-1900.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Josephine McDonagh. Child Murder and British Culture 1720-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 278. $75.00. Josephine McDonagh has produced a definitive account of the trope of child murder as a mechanism for dealing with...