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Studies in Romanticism articles from June 2008
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Studies in Romanticism archives from June 2008
Melmoth affirmed: Maturin's defense of sacred history.(Charles Robert Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... FEW WIDELY KNOWN BOOKS HAVE BEEN SO OFTEN MISCONSTRUED AS Charles Robert Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). The novel has earned the Anglo-Irish Maturin his reputation as a "conscious inheritor" of eighteenth-century gothic tropes, (1) but...
Pure art, pure desire: changing definitions of l'art pour l'art from Kant to Gautier.(Immanuel Kant and Theophile Gautier)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... THE SHADOW CAST BY IMMANUEL KANT'S CONCEPT OF THE DISINTERESTED nature of the aesthetic is indeed a long one. In literary studies, such ah assumption legitimized the dominance of formalism for much of the twentieth century, New Criticism being...
Necessary fictions: the "Swinish Multitude" and the rights of man.(Reflections on the Revolution in France)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... I. Introduction
WHEN EDMUND BURKE WROTE OF A "SWINISH MULTITUDE" IN THE Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), he probably did not expect to receive many responses from offended swine. (1) Yet in such publications as James...
John Clare's dark ecology.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008...
I am here, sitting by the tire, wearing a dressing gown, holding
this page in my hand (1)
PLACE, AND IN PARTICULAR, THE LOCAL, HAVE BECOME KEY TERMS IN Romantic ecocriticism s rage against the machine. This rage is as impotent as...
Purloined voices: Edgar Allan Poe reading Samuel Taylor coleridge.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... THE PERVASIVE INFLUENCE OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE'S WORK ON THE writings of Edgar Allan Poe is well documented. As early as 1930, in his article "Poe's Debt to Coleridge," Floyd Stovall maintained that Coleridge was "the guiding genius of...
British romantics and native Americans: the Araucanians of Chile.
June 22, 2008... SINCE EDWARD SAID'S GROUNDBREAKING ORIENTALISM (1978), MUCH OF the critical impetus within Romantic Studies has been in the area of colonialism and its effects. Developments have been in two directions: in one a number of scholars have...
Rachel Crawford. Poetry, Enclosure, and the Vernacular Landscape 1700-1830.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Rachel Crawford. Poetry, Enclosure, and the Vernacular Landscape 1700-1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv+318. $96.00.
"I wish to have a good walled garden," says James Boswell in 1791 in the Life of Johnson (quoted...
H. J. Jackson. Romantic Readers: The Evidence of Marginalia.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... H. J. Jackson. Romantic Readers: The Evidence of Marginalia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. 366. $37.00.
H. J. Jackson's 2005 Romantic Readers: The Evidence of Marginalia provides for the scholar or general reader an ideal...
Kathryn Sutherland. Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Kathryn Sutherland. Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 408. $125.00 cloth/$45.00 paper.
The title of Kathryn Sutherland's Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to...