Studies in Romanticism articles from June 2004

Studies in Romanticism archives from June 2004

Announcement.(Correction Notice)
June 22, 2004... Due to a printing error, the first word in the title of Stuart Peterfreund's essay in the Spring 2004 issue was misspelled in three places: the back cover, the table of contents and the first page of the article (79). The correct title is...

A printing devil, a Scottish mummy, and an Edinburgh book of the dead: James Hogg's Napoleonic complex.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... IN DON JUAN, BYRON MENTIONS A FRENCH JOKE THAT EXPLOITS ACCENT TO mispronounce "Wellington" as "Vilainton" and, thereby, "pun[] down to this facetious phrase" the name "France could not [] conquer." The joke, Byron shows, allows a defeated...

"To be at once another and the same": Walter Scott and the end(s) of sympathetic Britishness.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... ON A MISERABLE DECEMBER DAY IN 1825, WALTER SCOTT RECORDED HIS resolve to fight his latest bout of depression "by letting both mind and body know that supposing one the House of Commons and the other the House of Peers, my will is sovereign...

Pests, parasites, and positionality: Anna Letitia Barbauld and "The Caterpillar".(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... READERS WHO WERE FIRST INTRODUCED TO ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825) as the prudish school matron who wrote prose hymns for children and complained that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner" lacks a "moral" (1) may be surprised to find...

Composed composers: subjectivity in E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Rat Krespel".(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... 1 A ROMANTIC IDEE FIXE THAT E. T. A. HOFFMANN AFFIRMS REPEATEDLY throughout his astute and often forward-looking music criticism is that music characteristically opens avenues into the sublime. This is especially the case when the music in...

Phenomenality and dissatisfaction in Coleridge's Notebooks.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... THE LAST THING COLERIDGE WANTED TO BE CALLED WAS AN EMPIRICIST, yet he devoted hours of his life to minute descriptions of optical illusions, hallucinations, and sensory oddities--"spectra," as he calls them. He records occurrences as ordinary...

Kinship, generation and community: the transmission of political ideology in radical plebeian print culture.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... THIS ESSAY WILL ARGUE THAT PLEBEIAN RADICALISM TRANSPOSED ITSELF effortlessly across the two generations usually associated with literary Romanticism. The principal vehicle of radicalism's generation was the family. It will be shown that...

Saree Makdisi. William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790's.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Saree Makdisi. William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790's. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xviii+392. $22.00 paper. Saree Makdisi repeatedly quotes a remark in Blake's letter of 12 April 1827 to...

Mark Canuel. Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790-1830.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Mark Canuel. Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790-1830. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 328. $65.00. Mark Canuel's "genealogy" of toleration (2) is a welcome addition to scholarly studies of the...

Helen Thomas. Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Helen Thomas. Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 332. $28.00. Helen Thomas' sophisticated inquiry into slavery, identity, and language teaches readers about the...

Gillen D'Arcy Wood. The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760-1860.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Gillen D'Arcy Wood. The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760-1860. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. 273. $59.95. In The Shock of the Real, Gillen D'Arcy Wood revisits Romantic visuality to argue that it is in the Romantic...

Books received.
June 22, 2004... Allen, Emily. Theater Figures. The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2003. $69.95 cloth/$22.95 paper. Bainbridge, Simon. British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of...