Studies in Romanticism articles from June 2005

Studies in Romanticism archives from June 2005

Jane Austen and the importance of being wrong.
June 22, 2005... "The pursuit of the incorrigible is one of the most venerable bugbears in the history of philosophy."--J. L. Austin (1) IN JANE AUSTEN'S MANSFIELD PARK (1814), FANNY PRICE LEAVES HER AUNTS, uncle, and cousins with whom she has been visiting...

Romantic orientalism begins at home: Elizabeth Hamilton's Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah.
June 22, 2005... ELIZABETH HAMILTON'S SUBTLE AND NUANCED ANALYSIS OF THE INTERSECTION of Hindu and British culture published in 1796 is a core text for our understanding of Romantic orientalism. It is based on an extensive familiarity with Hindu law,...

Consuming Africa: geography and identity in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative.(The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Oldaudah Equiano)
June 22, 2005... AT THE END OF THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH Equiano (1789), Olaudah Equiano comments that Africans occupy not only the coasts but "the bowels of Africa." (1) In the eighteenth century, "bowels" was already a common...

Mary Shelley's editions of The Collected Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Editor as Subject.
June 22, 2005... I dislike speaking of myself, but cannot help apologizing to the dead, and to the public, for not having executed in the manner I desired the history I engaged to give of Shelley's writings. --Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, "Note on the Poems...

The politics of literary biography in Charles Brown's Life of John Keats.
June 22, 2005... THE EDITORS OF THE ONLY PUBLISHED EDITION OF CHARLES ARMITAGE Brown's Life of John Keats (1830) call it "a disappointment." "Its weakness results," they argue, "from the fact that Brown wrote not so much a biography as an invective aimed at...

"I WANT a hero": advertising for an epic hero in Don Juan.
June 22, 2005... A selection of these advertisements would form a curious book, and exhibit much of the state of England. Sometimes a gentleman advertises for a wife, sometimes a lady for a husband. --Robert Southey, Letters from England (1807) ...

Marc Redfield. The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Marc Redfield. The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xi+255, 3 illustrations. $55.00 cloth/$24.95 paper. "Waving, not drowning": On the Lives of Theory Notwithstanding...

J. Douglas Kneale. Romantic Aversions: Aftermaths of Classicism in Wordsworth and Coleridge.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... J. Douglas Kneale. Romantic Aversions: Aftermaths of Classicism in Wordsworth and Coleridge. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. Pp. 227. $65.00. This excellent study offers two kinds of analyses to show that classicism was in...

Julia M. Wright. Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Julia M. Wright. Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. 230. $44-95. It's difficult to write well about Blake. Just when you think you've got him, he slips away, contrarily, enemy of...

Jon Mee. Romanticism, Enthusiasm and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Jon Mee. Romanticism, Enthusiasm and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. PP. x+320. $39.95 paper. The radiant, nearly overwhelming, energy of a multitude of...

Richard E. Matlak. Deep Distresses. William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Richard E. Matlak. Deep Distresses. William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. Pp. 201. $43.50. Richard Matlak weaves together three strands of interpretation: the...