Studies in Romanticism articles from March 2000

Studies in Romanticism archives from March 2000

Seeing in the Dark: Hazlitt's Immanent Idealism.
March 22, 2000... Introduction THE GRADUAL RENEWAL OF INTEREST IN HAZLITT STUDIES OVER THE PAST few decades has recently intensified, and in doing so has taken a striking turn. Thanks to the earlier work of students such as W. P. Albrecht, Roy Park, John...

Pathos (Allegories of Reading).(Brief Article)(Transcript)
March 22, 2000... MANY READERS HAVE DIFFICULTY IMAGINING WHAT THE FORMS OF SELFHOOD proposed by poststructuralist theory are supposed to feel like, and some assume that the very idea of strong emotion is inconsistent with poststructuralist theories of the self....

Begging the Question of Responsibility: the Vagrant Poor in Wordsworth's "Beggars" and "Resolution and Independence".(Brief Article)(Transcript)
March 22, 2000... IN THE THIRD VOLUME OF A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE, DAVID HUME argues that the mind is characterized by a "selfishness" or "limited" generosity that is reinforced by nature's having made scant provision for our wants.(1) Justice, as the...

"Work Without Hope": Anxiety and Embarrassment in Coleridge's Sonnets.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... "I love Sonnets; but upon my honor I do not love my Sonnets." --Samuel Taylor Coleridge PERHAPS BECAUSE FROM A FORMAL STANDPOINT HE WAS SO DOGGEDLY unconventional, Samuel Taylor Coleridge seems an unlikely sonneteer. Fourteen lines,...

Breaking the Laws of Language: Freedom and History in Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg.(Brief Article)(Transcript)
March 22, 2000... THE POLEMICS BETWEEN NEW HISTORICIST AND POST-STRUCTURALIST camps having run their course, romantic studies has entered an accommodating phase. While we are aware that different approaches to the study of texts may rely on mutually exclusive...

The Jenneration of Disease: Vaccination, Romanticism, and Revolution.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... IN 1798, BRITAIN WAS PREPARING FOR INVASION BY FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY armies. To the government and the press it seemed ill-prepared to defend itself. The navy had recently mutinied at Spithead and the Nore, and pro-French radicals were fomenting...

Romantic Women Poets, 1770-1838: An Anthology.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Andrew Ashfield, ed. Romantic Women Poets, 1770-1838: An Anthology. Manchester: Manchester University Press; New York: St. Martin's. Vol. 1, 1995. Pp. 327. $24.95; Vol. 2, 1999. Pp. 260. $27.95. It is highly unusual for a journal like this...

Women Romantics, 1785-1832: Writing in Prose.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Jennifer Breen, ed., Women Romantics, 1785-1832: Writing in Prose. London: J. M. Dent; Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1996. Pp. 292. $8.50. It is highly unusual for a journal like this to publish a review of current textbooks, but if...

Women Critics, 1660-1820.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Folger Collective on Early Women Critics, Women Critics, 1660-1820. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. 410. $19.95. It is highly unusual for a journal like this to publish a review of current textbooks, but if you want to see...

British Literature, 1780-1830.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Anne K. Mellor and Richard E. Matlak, eds., British Literature, 1780-1830. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1996. Pp. 1441. $45.00. It is highly unusual for a journal like this to publish a review of current textbooks, but if you want to see a...

Romanticism: An Anthology.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Duncan Wu, ed. Romanticism: An Anthology. 1994. 2nd ed. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998. Pp. 1121. $38.95. It is highly unusual for a journal like this to publish a review of current textbooks, but if you want to see a revolution in...

Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Duncan Wu, Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1997. Pp. 629. $36.95. It is highly unusual for a journal like this to publish a review of current textbooks, but if you want to see a revolution in process,...

Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry, and Spectatorship.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Judith Pascoe. Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry, and Spectatorship. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii+251. $39-95. Hand in glove with its well-known anti-theatrical prejudice walks the less recognized...

Shelley and the Chaos of History: A New Politics of Poetry.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Hugh Roberts. Shelley and the Chaos of History: A New Politics of Poetry. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1997. Pp. x+534. $25.00. "Many of the things we label `skeptical' or `idealist' in Shelley's thought are the different...

Impure Conceits: Rhetoric and Ideology in Wordsworth's "Excursion".(Review)
March 22, 2000... Alison Hickey. Impure Conceits: Rhetoric and Ideology in Wordsworth's "Excursion." Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xii+237. $39.50. Readers expecting a book about The Excursion to amount to a wearying trudge past a monument...