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Studies in Romanticism articles from December 2006
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Studies in Romanticism archives from December 2006
Romantic mentoring and Mathetes letter to The Friend.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... "To himself every fresh idea appears instruction."
--The Friend
WRITTEN BY JOHN WILSON AND ALEXANDER BLAIR, THE LETTER FROM Mathetes in Coleridge's The Friend (1809-10) seems to owe even its pseudonymous signature to the equivocal...
Antiquarian authorship: D'Israeli's miscellany of literary curiosity and the question of secondary genres.(Benjamin D'Israeli)
December 22, 2006... BENJAMIN DISRAELI'S MEMOIR OF HIS FATHER, PREFACED TO THE POSTHUMOUS fourteenth edition of Isaac D'Israeli's remarkably successful antiquarian miscellany Curiosities of Literature (originally published in 1791), underlines his parent's intense...
Hemans' passion.(Felicia Hemans)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... SENTIMENTAL SHE MAY HAVE BEEN, BUT FELICIA HEMANS' VICTORIAN CRITICS seemed most struck, and most impressed, by her consistent lack of passion. "She is no sibyl, tossed to and fro in the tempest of furious excitement," writes George Gilfillan...
Caliban to the Audience: Auden's revision of Wordsworth's Sublime.(W.H. Auden, William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... --"A wish was now ingender'd in my fear / To cleave unto this Man"...
--Wordsworth
"STRIDING UP TO HIM IN FURY, YOU GLARE INTO HIS UNBLINKING EYES and stop dead, transfixed with horror at seeing reflected there, not what you had...
Colonial desires: the fantasy of Empire and Elizabeth Hamilton's Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... IN THE EUROPEAN ROMANTIC REVIEW S SPECIAL ISSUE ON BRITISH ROMATICISM: Global Crossings," Anne Mellor, in her introduction to a subsection titled "Romanticism, Gender and the Anxieties of Empire," asks an important question, "Do the female...
Dividing time: musical memory and the dis-closure of fate in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Die Automate.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... "DER TURKE WOLLTE, WIE DU BEMERKT HABEN WIRST, DURCHAUS nicht antworten" ["the Turk was most unwilling to answer me, as I daresay you observed"], (1) and one can appreciate the oracle's initial reticence. Here comes Ferdinand, the Romantic...
Thomas Pfau. Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Thomas Pfau. Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+572. $65.00.
Mood was always romantic matter--Wordsworth's "sweet mood when pleasant thoughts / Bring...
Stuart Peterfreund. Shelley Among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Stuart Peterfreund. Shelley Among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. 406. $55.00.
Stuart Peterfreund has written a courageous book. Anyone who remembers...
Elisabeth Le Guin. Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Elisabeth Le Guin. Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xxiv+350. $39.95.
As an intellectual practice and as a department of the modern research university, musicology is a...
Yoon Sun Lee. Nationalism and Irony: Burke, Scott, Carlyle.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Yoon Sun Lee. Nationalism and Irony: Burke, Scott, Carlyle. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 232. $60.00.
This interesting new study brings together two concepts which, taken separately, are well-established tools in the...