Studies in Romanticism articles from June 2001

Studies in Romanticism archives from June 2001

"Properer for a Sermon": Particularities of Dissent and Coleridge's Conversational Mode.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... ... Once I saw (Hallowing his Sabbath-day by quietness) A wealthy son of commerce saunter by, Bristowa's citizen: methought, it calmed His thirst of idle gold, and made him muse With wiser feelings. --"Reflections on Having Left a Place of...

Beautiful Conceptions and Tourist Kitsch: Wordsworth's "Written with a Slate Pencil ...".(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... THOSE WHO GO FORTH AS TOURISTS COME HOME WITH KITSCH. SUCH IS the banal tragedy of the search for authenticity: it leaves in its wake a Sherman's march of simulacra, an increased rather than diminished distance from its object. Worst of all,...

Romantic Self-Fashioning: John Thelwall and the Science of Elocution.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... JOHN THELWALL CAME TO PUBLIC PROMINENCE IN THE 1790S AS AN ORATOR and political theorist at the center of the British reform movement. His writings on political philosophy and the public lectures he gave as a member of the London Corresponding...

Walter Scott's Romantic Archaeology: New/Old Abbotsford and The Antiquary.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... All changes round us, past, present, and to come; that which was history yesterday becomes fable to-day, and the truth of to-day is hatched into a lie by to-morrow.(1) The past is recovered as private estate.(2) A WATERSHED DATE IN THE...

Figuring Disfiguration: Reading Shelley after De Man.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... I. Apocalyptic Fury in The Triumph of Life and Adonais IN "SHELLEY DISFIGURED" PAUL DE MAN EXPLORES THE DELUSION OF figuration as the "erasure" of what de Man describes as the nonphenomenal "positing power of language" (64).(1) Figuration,...

Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Anne Janowitz. Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii+278. $59.95. Several years ago, in a review in these pages, Anne Janowitz identified "plebeian studies" as an emerging new field...

Cultural Politics in the 1790s: Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Andrew McCann. Cultural Politics in the 1790s: Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere. New York and London: St. Martin's Press and Macmillan Press, 1999. Pp. xi+226. $59.95. As a revised dissertation by a young scholar, Cultural...

Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Gregory Dart. Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1999. Pp. 288. $59.95. This recent book by Gregory Dart is a well-informed and intelligently executed account of the impact of Rousseau's...

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat, ed. The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Vol. 1. Pp. xlii+492. $75.00. Scholars wishing to consult an edition of Shelley's complete (or nearly...

Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Clement Hawes. Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii+244. $59.95. Since the publication of Fredric Jameson's The Political...

Blake and Homosexuality.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Christopher Z. Hobson. Blake and Homosexuality. New York and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave [division of St. Martin's Press], 2000. Pp. xxii+249. Illustrated. $49.95. Though there has been much random speculation...