Studies in Romanticism articles from March 2002

Studies in Romanticism archives from March 2002

Confessions of a gentrified sinner: secrets in Scott and Hogg.(Walter Scott, author James Hogg)
March 22, 2002... "You are right, my friend--you are right," replied poor Dick, his eye kindling with enthusiasm; "why should I shun the name of an--an"--(he hesitated for a phrase)--"an out-of-doors artist?" --Walter Scott, The Bride of...

What makes Lord Byron go? Strong determinations--public/private--of imperial errancy.
March 22, 2002... IN THIS ESSAY I WILL ATTEMPT TO SITUATE BYRON'S ERRANCY EASTWARDS, or, in more concrete terms, to situate his writing of this deterritorialization--a writing that deterritorializes the writer--within the historical conjuncture that...

The work of trauma: Fuller, Douglass, and Emerson on the border of ridicule.(Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson)
March 22, 2002... M[argaret Fuller] to C[aroline Sturgis]. "I could not but laugh at your catalogue of things you must not have--nothing striped, diamonded, or (above all things) square. That is driving me to close quarters, I think." Dualism. I...

"Strange longings": Keats and feet.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... THERE ARE MORE FEET IN KEATS'S POETRY THAN MIGHT BE SUPPOSED--and by feet, I am referring to those found on the end of legs, not the metrical variety. Feet figure in various ways: for example, Keats visualized his poetic career in terms of...

James O'Rourke. Keats's Odes and Contemporary Criticism.
March 22, 2002... Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. Pp. xiv+193. $39.95. The title of this engaging new book on Keats's odes appears to make "contemporary criticism" a principal subject; the preface proclaims the four "dominant critical...

Michael Simpson. Closet Performances: Political Exhibition and Prohibition in the Dramas of Byron and Shelley.
March 22, 2002... Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. 469. $56.00. Largely by "recycling the trope of materialization" in print forms which consign them to mental consumption rather than material enactments, dramas by Shelley and Byron reconstruct...

Morton D. Paley. Portraits of Coleridge.
March 22, 2002... New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii+171. 25 illus. $55.00. Painting Coleridge boils down to this fundamental problem: the man looked nothing like a romantic poet. Unlike the expressive faces of his well-known contemporaries,...

Terence Whalen. Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses: the Political Economy of Literature in Antebellum America.
March 22, 2002... Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. x+328. $55.00. Terence Whalen frames his study of Poe's engagements with the literary marketplace as a singular intervention into a largely psychoanalytic critical tradition, claiming that...

Henry Sussman. The Aesthetic Contract: Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity.
March 22, 2002... Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. 319. $47.50 cloth/$17.50 paper. This most recent book by Henry Sussman is the fruit of a sustained, career-long reflection on the forces at play within our historical and critical modernity....

Shaun Irlam. Elations: the Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
March 22, 2002... Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. 284. $51.00. Much mid-eighteenth-century English poetry--after Pope, before Wordsworth, unlike both--challenges postmodern readers to the point of frustration. Gray's Elegy and Collins' odes...

Books received.
March 22, 2002... BANNET, EVE TAYLOR. The Domestic Revolution: Enlightenment Feminisms and the Novel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000. $18.95 paper/$48.00 cloth. BENNETT, BETTY T. & STUART CURRAN, eds. Mary Shelley in Her Times. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins...