Studies in Romanticism articles from March 2001

Studies in Romanticism archives from March 2001

Introduction.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... 1 THIS SPECIAL ISSUE OF STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM DRAWS UPON WORK PRESENTED at the sixth meeting of the International Scott Conference, Scott, Scotland and Romanticism, held at the University of Oregon in July 1999. The editors have selected...

Scott's Staging of the Nation.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... IN 1826 WALTER SCOTT WAS IN PARIS, ESCAPING THE AFTERMATH OF THE collapse of Ballantyne's printing house. There he made a visit to the theater to watch Rossini's version of Ivanhoe.(1) Given that Scott's novel had been published in English only...

Gothic Libraries and National Subjects.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... This domain of phantasms is no longer the night, the sleep of reason, or the uncertain void that stands before desire, but, on the contrary, wakefulness, untiring attention, zealous erudition.... Henceforth, the visionary experience arises from...

Understanding Media in 1805: Audiovisual Hallucination in The Lay of the Last Minstrel.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... Since [Scott], since a certain break or rapture that took place with [Scott], [poetry] is no longer what was understood by this word, but rather the agency (or insistence) of the letter in the unconscious. [Poetry] is the letter and hence what...

"The Birthday of Typography": A Response to Celeste Langan.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... Wordsworth's last quarto, by the way, is bigger Than any since the birthday of typography, A drowsy frowzy poem, call'd the `Excursion,' Writ in a manner which is my aversion. (Don Juan 3.94)(1) WHAT MIGHT WELL BE...

"We are Five-and-Forty": Meter and National Identity in Sir Walter Scott.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... WALTER SCOTT INITIATED A VIGOROUS DEFENSE OF SCOTTISH NATIONAL identity after the British Parliament responded to the 1825 financial panic with an 1826 currency reform: throughout Great Britain, small banknotes would henceforth be replaced by...

Scott's Pageants: The Example of Kenilworth.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... KENILWORTH FALLS INTO THAT ABUNDANT CATEGORY OF SCOTT NOVELS forgotten by most twentieth-century readers, yet it is an important book in the context both of Scott's career and of the cultural history of the novel. In some respects it marks the...

Giants in the North: Douglas, the Scottish Enlightenment, and Scott's Redgauntlet.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... IN THE SUMMER OF 1757, DAVID HUME EXULTED TO A FELLOW-SCOT, "IS IT not strange that, at a time when we have lost our Princes, our parliaments, our independent Government, even the Presence of our Chief Nobility... that, in these Circumstances,...

Scott, History, and the Augustan Public Sphere.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... IN DECEMBER 1819, WALTER SCOTT WROTE TO LORD MELVILLE AND LORD Montagu outlining plans for a militia of local smallholders and laborers to counter the approach of radical insurrection in Scotland and "civil war" in Britain.(1) The letters made...

Walter Scott and European Union.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... ON HIS FIRST VISIT TO ST ANDREWS IN 1793 WHEN HE WAS IN HIS EARLY twenties, Walter Scott carved a woman's name in runic characters into the turf beside the castle gate.(1) Her name was Williamina Belsches, and her rejection of him made him, as...

Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Katie Trumpener. Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. 426. $55.00 cloth/$19.95 paper. Katie Trumpener's Preface sums up the ambitious goals of Bardic Nationalism:...

Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1830.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Leith Davis. Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1830. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. 219. $39.50. The recent devolution of political powers in Great Britain, which has produced...

Wordsworth's Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Early Romantic Cultural Production.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Thomas Pfau. Wordsworth's Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Early Romantic Cultural Production. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. PP. 454. $49.50. For good reasons, academics in literary studies are anxious about their...

Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt and Their Circle.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Jeffrey N. Cox. Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt and Their Circle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii+278. $59.95. We have been using the notion of a group or "circle" of individuals in...