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Studies in Romanticism archives from December 2007
A motion and a spirit: romancing Spinoza.(Benedict de Spinoza)(Essay)
December 22, 2007... THE SIMPLEST DESCRIPTION OF WHAT I PROPOSE IN THIS ESSAY IS SOURCE study. The source in question is the thought of Benedict de Spinoza, (1) which I would characterize as a submerged philosophical context in a number of nineteenth-century...
Wordsworth's anatomies of surprise.(William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH HAS LONG BEEN RECOGNIZED AS A POET OF sudden irruptions, episodes that seemed trivial to many of his contemporary readers but strike us as quintessentially lyric moments. In the poet's terms, they take the form of either a...
The hermetic tradition of Arabic Islam and the colonial politics of Landor's Gebir.(Walter Savage Landor)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... From hence, under the idea of the instrumentality of the French Revolution, in the fulfillment of prophecies, religion itself became accessary to deism and atheism! Prophecies, relative to the destruction of almost every kingdom and empire in...
Broken mirrors and multiplied reflections in Lord Byron and Mary Shelley.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... AT A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN MARY SHELLEY'S SECOND NOVEL, VALPERGA; OR the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823), Shelley describes the pain experienced by the central female character, Euthanasia dei Adimari, following the...
"Do you then repair my work": the redemptive contract in Mary Shelley's Valperga.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... MARY SHELLEY'S VALPERGA, PUBLISHED IN 1823, OFFERS A REVISION OF fourteenth-century Italian political history by inserting two fictional characters into "The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca," as the subtitle reads. Careful...
William Blake and the problem of progression.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... THIS PAPER'S GOALS ARE TO DEMONSTRATE, FIRST, HOW ARISTOTELIAN logic influences William Blake's fourfold conception of the human and, second, how his manuscript epic The Four Zoas uses the figure of synecdoche to confound that logic. The paper...
Grant F. Scott, editor. Joseph Severn: Letters and Memoirs.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Grant F. Scott, editor. Joseph Severn: Letters and Memoirs. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. Pp. xxxv + 716. $99.95.
Sometimes the adventures of the archive outpace in excitement the adventures to be found in it. While...
Daniel O'Quinn. Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Daniel O'Quinn. Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. 412. $60.00.
Daniel O'Quinn has written an ambitious and important first book, one that addresses current...
Michael Scrivener. Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall & Jacobin Writing.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Michael Scrivener. Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall & Jacobin Writing. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. Pp. xii+305. $62 cloth.
Students of democracy have received a valuable gift in...
Jerrold E. Hogle. The Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera: Sublimation and the Gothic in Leroux's Novel and Its Progeny.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Jerrold E. Hogle. The Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera: Sublimation and the Gothic in Leroux's Novel and Its Progeny. New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. 262. $90.00.
It is a delight to note that Jerrold E. Hogle, a familiar name to...