Studies in Romanticism articles from December 2005

Studies in Romanticism archives from December 2005

"What a rich fund of images is treasured up here": poetic commonplaces of the sublime universe.(essay)(18th century celestial poems)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2005... THIS ESSAY IS ABOUT THE WAYS IN WHICH ENLIGHTENMENT WATCHERS OF the night sky made poetry and aesthetic theory out of their Newtonian inheritance. (1) The discussion looks at eighteenth century celestial poems and at a few of the century's many...

William Hazlitt, on being brilliant.(essay)(literay critic)(1800's)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2005... Authors were actuated by the desire of the applause of posterity, only so long as they were debarred of that of their contemporaries, just as we see the map of the goldmines of Peru hanging in the room of Hogarth's Distressed Poet. In the midst...

"A dream of murder": The fall of Robespierre and the tragic imagination.(essay)(influence of the French Revolution on British romantic literature)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2005... ROBESPIERRE. What! did th'assassin's dagger aim its point Vain, as a dream of murder, at my bosom?--Coleridge & Southey, The Fall of Robespierre i.ii.6-7 (1794) THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF A LARGER STUDY OF THE RAPID AND TURBULENT...

Two poems by Dorothy Wordsworth in dialogic interaction with "Tintern Abbey".(essay)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2005... DOROTHY WORDSWORTH'S WORK HAS REVEALED ITSELF OF PARADIGMATIC value to feminist criticism seeking a more complete and truthful picture of Romanticism, thought by scholars working in the area to be possible only through a recapturing of texts...

"Read your fall": The signs of plague in The Last Man.
December 22, 2005... How are we then to understand the message on each leaf, the doubly inscribed leaf that forces us from the botanical realm of organic continuity to that of the written text: how are we to read this volume of scattered pages? --Carol Jacobs...

The prophetic strain: Shelley on erotic failure and world legislation.(essay)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2005... Till old experience do attain To something like Prophetic strain. --Milton (1) 1 MICHAEL FERBER STATES THE ORTHODOX VIEW WHEN HE SAYS THAT IT IS with the completion of Alastor that "Shelley becomes Shelley," that "he...

Luke Gibbons. Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Colonial Sublime.(Book review)
December 22, 2005... Luke Gibbons. Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Colonial Sublime. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 304. $65.00. Edmund Burke and Ireland joins a mounting collection of recent works on British...

G. E. Bentley, Jr. Blake Records. Second Edition.(Book review)
December 22, 2005... G. E. Bentley, Jr. Blake Records. Second Edition. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xxxviii+943. Illus. $95.00. I well remember the effect that G. E. Bentley, Jr.'s Blake Records (henceforth BR) had when it first...

Julie Kipp. Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic.(Book review)
December 22, 2005... Julie Kipp. Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 256. $70.00. To look at the scrutiny of mothers by men and women writing during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is...

G. Gabrielle Start. Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
December 22, 2005... G. Gabrielle Start. Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. 298. $42.00. The thesis of this original and compelling book is quite simple:...

Ellen Brinks. Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism.(Book review)
December 22, 2005... Ellen Brinks. Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2003. Pp. 219. $44.50. Gothic Masculinity explores the collapsed boundaries between masculinity and...