Studies in Romanticism articles from March 2003

Studies in Romanticism archives from March 2003

Writing Keats's last days: Severn, Sharp, and Romantic biography.
March 22, 2003... OVER THE YEARS, THE DRAMATIC STORY OF KEATS'S FINAL MONTHS HAS been told and retold by biographers of the poet, who have dwelt at length on the voyage to Italy, the ten-day quarantine in the Bay of Naples, the progress from Naples to Rome, and...

The veil of familiarity: romantic philosophy and the familiar essay.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... THE OBJECT OF THIS DISCUSSION IS A DISTINCTLY ROMANTIC PROSE GENRE, the familiar essay. The qualifier "familiar" is definitive, and separates from the great critical and thematic writings of the romantic period, the kind of prose essay...

The color violaceous, or, chemistry and the romance of dematerialization: the subliming of iodine and Shelley's Adonais.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY HAD AN ABIDING INTEREST IN THE CHEMICAL RESEARCHES of Humphry Davy (1778-1829). (1) Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat attribute Ione's allusion to "fire that is not brightness" (2) in Prometheus Unbound (1820) to Davy. "As...

Philipp Otto Runge's Tageszeiten and their relationship to romantic nature philosophy.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Er schwieg stille, wohl eine Stunde, dann meynte er, es konne nie anders, nie deutlicher ausgesprochen werden, was er immer mit der neuen Kunst gemeynt habe; es hatte ihn aus der Fassung gesetzt dass das, was er sich doch nie als Gestalt...

Children of Childhood: nostalgia and the romantic legacy.
March 22, 2003... AT THE BREAK OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THAT MOST ROMANTIC DEsire, the longing for childhood, produced one of the most romantic images, the innocent child of nature. Emotion and image were manifestations of a yearning for the past which we have...

Cosmopolitical economy: exchangeable value and national development in Adam Smith and Maria Edgeworth.
March 22, 2003... All constitutions of government... are valued only in proportion as they tend to promote the happiness of those who live under them. --The Theory of Moral Sentiments No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far...

Andrea K. Henderson. Romantic Identities: Varieties of Subjectivity, 1774-1830.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii+ 198. Andrea Henderson's Romantic Identities authoritatively unsettles the depth model of romantic interiority at the same time that it evokes this model's uncanny half-life. Henderson...

Jonathan Bate. The Song of the Earth.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Jonathan Bate. The Song of the Earth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv+335. $29.95 cloth/$18.95 paper James C. McKusick. Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. x+261. $55.00....

Jeffery W. Vail. The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron and Thomas Moore.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. 251. $42.50. The object and method of Jeffery Vail's study are perfectly captured in and by his somewhat old-fashioned title, and it delivers exactly what it promises. Insofar...

Sarah M. Zimmerman. Romanticism, Lyricism, and History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. Pp. xxii+233. $20.50 cloth/ $19.95 paper. How long ago it all now seems. It was the late 1980s, even the historicists still talked in terms of the Big Six of British romantic poetry, and...

John L. Mahoney. Wordsworth and the Critics: The Development of a Critical Reputation.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2001. Pp. xix+166. $55.00. More than fifteen years ago, in the Wordsworth chapter he wrote for the fourth and last edition of the Modern Language Association's The English Romantic Poets: A Review of Research...