Studies in Romanticism articles from March 2006

Studies in Romanticism archives from March 2006

Mary Wollstonecraft and the "reserve of reason".(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... I. Reason and Sensation in the 1790s IN A RECENT STUDY OF THE "DISCOURSE ON ENTHUSIASM," JOHN MEE HAS described Wordsworth's Prelude as "an extended attempt to demonstrate that a continuity of subjectivity could survive and benefit from...

Wordsworth's "Nutting" and the Ovidian "Nux".(William Wordsworth)
March 22, 2006... And will any one say he had no right to those Acorns or Apples he thus appropriated, because he had not the consent of all Mankind to make them his? Was it a Robbery thus to assume to himself what belonged to all in Common? (1) THE CENTRAL...

Generating a national sublime: Wordsworth's The River Duddon and The Guide to the Lakes.(William Wordsworth)
March 22, 2006... GENERALLY CONSIDERED, 1820 IS WELL PAST THE ZENITH OF WORDSWORTH'S power as a poet. Both The River Duddon and The Guide to the Lakes, appearing together in 1820, are usually read in comparison with, and in terms of, work written very close to...

Testimony and trope in Frankenstein.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... That at the "bottom" of the human being there is nothing other than an impossibility of seeing--this is the Gorgon, whose vision transforms the human being into a non-human. That precisely this inhuman impossibility of seeing is what calls and...

Blackwood's Maga, Lockhart's Peter's Letters, and the politics of publishing.(William Blackwood )
March 22, 2006... Ms. 4004 OF THE BLACKWOOD PAPERS IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF Scotland includes a series of lengthy letters to William Blackwood from William Davies, partner in the London publishing firm of Cadell and Davies. In April 1819 Cadell and Davies had...

Deirdre Coleman. Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Deirdre Coleman. Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi+273. $85.00. Deirdre Coleman's Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery is an archivally grounded and critically...

Scott Hess. Authoring the Self: Self-Representation, Authorship and the Print Market.(Autobiographical Writing and British Literature, 1783-1834)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Scott Hess. Authoring the Self: Self-Representation, Authorship and the Print Market. New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 404. $90.00. James Treadwell. Autobiographical Writing and British Literature, 1783-1834. New York: Oxford University...

Drummond Bone, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Byron.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Drummond Bone, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Byron. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 330. $70.00 cloth/$24.99 paper. There arose a soothing hope in my mind that a lesser public might be found, composed of...