Studies in Romanticism articles from March 2007

Studies in Romanticism archives from March 2007

Historical bodies in a "mental theatre": Byron's ethics of history.(George Gordon)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... BYRON'S VENETIAN TRAGEDIES, MARINO FALIERO AND THE TWO FOSCARI with their almost obsessive adherence to the neo-classical unities and their minute attention to historical detail, seem to be his least adventurous dramatic projects and have thus...

"Sublime labours": aesthetics and political economy in Blake's Jerusalem.(William Blake)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... FROM THE OUTSET OF HIS EPIC POEM JERUSALEM, BLAKE HIGHLIGHTS THE importance of aesthetic perception. Above the archway in the original frontispiece, Blake describes "A pleasant Shadow of Repose calld Albions lovely Land / His Sublime & Pathos...

Early Blackwood's and Scottish identities.(William Blackwood)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... "I MUST CONGRATULATE YOU ON THE ENGRAVING OF BUCHANNAN," JOHN Murray wrote to William Blackwood, after seeing the title-page of Blackwood's new monthly magazine. (1) The name that Murray misspelled was George Buchanan's, whose bearded visage...

Facing Keats with Winnicott: on a new therapeutics of poetry.
March 22, 2007... IT IS REMARKABLE THAT, THROUGHOUT HIS BRIEF AND INCOMPARABLY IN tense writing career, Keats never ceased to insist upon the therapeutic function of poetry. From his buoyant declaration in the 1816 "Sleep and Poetry" that "the great end / Of...

Shakespeare, Coleridge, intellecturition.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge's criticism of William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF THE BOLLINGEN COLLECTED Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge are given over to Coleridge's notes, comments, reflections, marginalia, and lectures on Shakespeare. These testify en masse to the remarkable...

The fane of Tescalipoca: S. T. Coleridge on the sacrificial economies of systems in the 1790s.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... IN HIS 1795 MORAL AND POLITICAL LECTURE S. T. COLERIDGE SUGGESTS, we should be cautious" how we indulge even the feelings of virtuous indignation.... Let us beware that we continue not the evils of tyranny, when the monster ...

Cian Duffy. Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Cian Duffy. Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 63. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 260. $80.00. To borrow from Shelley's sometime fellow traveler Byron, who becomes a key figure in this...

Christopher Rovee. Imagining the Gallery: The Social Body of British Romanticism.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Christopher Rovee. Imagining the Gallery: The Social Body of British Romanticism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+251. $55.00. Imagine the faces of the Presidents of the United States in chronological order, or, if...

James O'Rourke. Sex, Lies, and Autobiography: The Ethics of Confession.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... James O'Rourke. Sex, Lies, and Autobiography: The Ethics of Confession. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. 215. The title of James O'Rourke's new book echoes that of the 1989 film "Sex, Lies, and Videotape," whose...

Tom Lockwood. Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Tom Lockwood. Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+257. $85.00. The conventional wisdom is that Ben Jonson had little cultural or poetic visibility during the Romantic period. The key date often...

Books received.
March 22, 2007... Austin, Linda M. Nostalgia: In Transition, 1780-1917. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2007. $39.50 (cloth). Ban-ell, John. The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. Blackwell, Mark. The...