Studies in Romanticism articles from December 2008

Studies in Romanticism archives from December 2008

"Which is the merchant here? and which the Jew?": friends and enemies in Walter Scott's crusader novels.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2008... THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE PERFORMANCE HISTORY OF THE MERCHANT OF Venice there would have been little or no motive to attend to the line I take here as my title. If the stage is crowded, with Shylock skulking somewhere in the background and Antonio...

Lyrical feeling: Novalis' anthropology of the senses.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2008... SCHOLARS HAVE RECENTLY BEGUN TO RECONSIDER KANT'S PHILOSOPHICAL project, and the Enlightenment project for which it often stands, as "one of bridging, not just sounding the abyss of dualism between reason and nature." (1) And, as Immanuel Kant...

Blake's "Tyger" as Miltonic beast.(William Blake and John Milton)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2008... WILLIAM BLAKE'S "TYGER" IN SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, 1794, ROAMS throughout the poet s later symbolical books, and despite the intense scrutiny that scholars have dedicated to Blake's famous beast, it has not been recognized that imagery referencing...

"Her ideas arranged themselves": re-membering poetry in Radcliffe.(Ann Radcliffe)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2008... IN 1810 ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD WROTE SOMEWHAT ANXIOUSLY ABOUT the tendency of readers to skip over the poems in Ann Radcliffe's novels: It ought not to be forgotten that there are many elegant pieces of poetry interspersed through...

"Jerusalem is scattered abroad": Blake's Ottoman geographies.(William Blake)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2008... They came up to Jerusalem; they walked before Albion / In the Exchanges of London every Nation walkd / And London walkd in every Nation mutual in love & harmony / Albion coverd the whole Earth, England encompassd the Nations,/... From bright...

"To Wordsworth" and the "White Obi"'. slavery, determination, and contingency in Shelley's Peter Bell the Third.(Percy Shelley)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2008... ONCE MORE INVOKING POETRY IN ADVANCE OF SCIENCE--IN THIS CASE prophesying the development of a radioactive decay-calculus that modern biologists call "half-life"--Percy Shelley's sonnet "To Wordsworth" reads as an epitaph for a man still alive....

Timothy Morton. Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Timothy Morton. Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xii+249. $49.95. Provocative may be too mild a word to characterize Timothy Morton's challenging, exuberant,...

Anya Taylor. Erotic Coleridge: Women, Love, and the Law Against Divorce.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Anya Taylor. Erotic Coleridge: Women, Love, and the Law Against Divorce. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 219. $74-95. In Erotic Coleridge: Women, Love, and the Law Against Divorce (now in its second printing) Anya Taylor's aim...

Regina Hewitt. Symbolic Interactions: Social Problems and Literary Interventions in the Works of Baillie, Scott, and Landor.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Regina Hewitt. Symbolic Interactions: Social Problems and Literary Interventions in the Works of Baillie, Scott, and Landor. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2006. Pp. 280. $49.50. Regina Hewitt's Possibilities of Society: Wordsworth,...

Sara Guyer. Romanticism after Auschwitz.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Sara Guyer. Romanticism after Auschwitz. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. 364. $55.00. There was a time when theoretical debates in the province of romantic studies reverberated throughout the domain of literary studies. That...