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Studies in Romanticism articles from June 2000
A scholarly literary quarterly focused on Romanticism and early nineteenth-century literature.
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Studies in Romanticism archives from June 2000
No Way for a Victim to Act?: Beatrice Cenci and the Dilemma of Romantic Performance.(drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... TWO PROBLEMS HAVE HISTORICALLY PREOCCUPIED READERS OF THE CENCI. First of all: what does this verse-play have to do with the theatre? If only by default, Shelley's drama occupies the liminal space between closet and stage. Shelley indisputably...
Artisan Melodrama and the Plebeian Public Sphere: The Political Culture of Drury Lane and its Environs, 1797-1830.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... THIS ESSAY WILL EXAMINE NON-ROYAL PATENT THEATRE MELODRAMA and artisan radical culture in the Drury Lane vicinity in the late 1810s and early 1820s. It will show that contemporary melodramas, especially those written by William Thomas Moncrieff...
Black Gates and Fiery Galleries: Eastern Architecture in The Fall of Hyperion.(John Keats)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... ACCORDING TO RECENT DISCUSSIONS, KEATS'S HYPERION FRAGMENTS draw on a historiography of style that opens with the ancient sublimities of Egypt and moves on to the lucent beauties of Greece and Rome. This argument is based largely on...
Self and Revision in Ruskin's Revaluations of Romanticism, 1830-1880.(writer John Ruskin)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... JOHN RUSKIN'S JUVENILIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN ADMIRED FOR ITS FACILITY. AS a child he could compose dozens of lines in a day, and fair-copy the draft with minimal revision. In his family, this effortlessness was termed the heart's ease of...
Byron's Revisited Haunts.(19th-century poet, Lord Byron)(Critical Essay)
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BEFORE HE LEFT ENGLAND IN A FLURRY OF SCANDAL, AND BEFORE HE created that most disillusioned of expatriates, Childe Harold, Lord Byron was irresistibly drawn to self-exile. In particular he paid close attention to the example of...
Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790's.(Review)
June 22, 2000... David Bromwich. Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790's. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. 186. $25.00.
In this patient exploration of early but decidedly major Wordsworth, David Bromwich scrupulously...
Reception and Poetics in Keats: "My Ended Poet".(Review)
June 22, 2000... Jeffrey C. Robinson. Reception and Poetics in Keats: "My Ended Poet." New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. 205.
This study of Keats's reception and his poetics is directed less to Keats's critics than to his readers. The reception...
Wordsworth and the Victorians.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Stephen Gill. Wordsworth and the Victorians. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. x+346. $45.00.
Stephen Gill's 1989 William Wordsworth: A Life has now become the definitive biography of the poet for scholars and for general readers...
The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Richard C. Sha. The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Pp. x+277. $45.00.
In this richly researched book, Richard Sha explores the idea that if Paul de Man's negative...
Fatal Autonomy: Romantic Drama and The Rhetoric of Agency.(Review)
June 22, 2000... William Jewett. Fatal Autonomy: :Romantic Drama and The Rhetoric of Agency. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. 262. $49.95.
Given the recent surge of work on the drama of the romantic period that has brought us such...