Studies in Romanticism articles from September 2000

Studies in Romanticism archives from September 2000

Relations of Scarcity: Ecology and Eschatology in The Ruined Cottage.
September 22, 2000... "ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL POEMS OF THE LANGUAGE" IS HOW Coleridge in 1832 remembered Wordsworth's The Ruined Cottage as it might have been, or as he had first known it, independent of The Excursion.(1) Modern readers have tended to agree, and...

Poverty, Charity, Poetry: The Unproductive Labors of "The Old Cumberland Beggar".
September 22, 2000... GIVEN WORDSWORTH'S TENDENCY TO TROPE HIMSELF AS A "WANDERER," as an "idler," as a vagabond, recluse, gatherer of leeches, and perhaps most memorably, in The Prelude, as the "blind beggar... propped against a Wall, upon his Chest / Wearing a...

Coleridge's Republicanism and the Aphorism in Aids to Reflection.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
September 22, 2000... IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, AIDS TO REFLECTION MAY HAVE BEEN Coleridge's most influential work of prose. On both sides of the Atlantic, Aids's psychology of "Reason" (the "source and substance of truths above sense") and "the Understanding"...

Keats's Orientalism.(John Keats)
September 22, 2000... EDWARD SAID ARGUES IN CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM THAT "IDEAS SUGgesting, often ideologically implementing, imperial rule" dominate nineteenth century European art and literature.(1) This orientalist narrative, though acknowledged, is not seen as...

Rewriting Milton: Orality and Writing in Blake's Milton.(William Blake)
September 22, 2000... MILTON IS A POEM HEAVILY COMMITTED TO THE GRAPHIC NATURE OF acts of writing and to its own writtenness. The only one of Blake's works specifically called a "Poem," its subtitle--"a Poem in 2 Books"-makes clear that its poetic status is...

Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Susan Wolfson. Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. 344. $19.95 paper. In the early decades of our century, a sure indicator of literary sophistication was the...

Consequences of Enlightenment.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Anthony Cascardi. Consequences of Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 265, with index. $54.95 cloth/$19.95 paper. It is difficult to convey how impressive Cascardi's book is because it is so consistently, even...

Masters of Repetition: Poetry, Culture, and Work in Thomson, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Emerson.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Lisa M. Steinman. Masters of Repetition: Poetry, Culture, and Work in Thomson, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Emerson. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. Pp. viii+248. $49.95. If, as critics as diverse as Oscar Wilde and Harold Bloom acknowledge, all...

Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Catherine B. Burroughs. Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. 264 $39-95. Joanna Baillie has played a prominent role in this...

British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Paula R. Feldman, ed. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. xxxvi+879. $60.00 cloth. "The Ladies," John Hamilton Reynolds tells readers of the Athenaeum,...

Women's Writing of the Romantic Period, 1789-1836: An Anthology.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Harriet Devine Jump, ed. Women's Writing of the Romantic Period, 1789-1836: An Anthology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997. Pp. xxiv+240. 45.00 [pounds sterling] cloth/14.95 [pounds sterling] paper/$80.00. "The Ladies," John...

Books Received.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2000... ALLEN, RICHARD C. David Hartley on Human Nature. Albany: SUNY Press, 1999. $24.95. BANERJI, CHRISTIANE and DIANE DONALD, eds. Gilray Observed: The Earliest Accounts of his Caricatures in London und Paris. New York: Cambridge UP, 1999....