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The wages of travel: Wordsworth and the Memorial Tour of 1820.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... IT IS ONE OF THE IRONIES OF THE LONG HISTORY OF POPULAR AND CRITICAL reception of William Wordsworth's poetry that a writer so remorselessly addicted to travel, to movement of and within the self, should have come to epitomize the importance of...
Apocalyptic economics and prophetic politics: radical and romantic responses to Malthus and Burke.(Thomas Robert Malthus)(Edmund Burke)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001...
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"A thing unknown, without a name": Anna Laetitia Barbauld and the illegible signature.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... I. Introduction
ALTHOUGH SHE WAS A WELL-KNOWN AND HIGHLY RESPECTED WRITER OF poetry, children's literature, civil sermons, and critical prose, Anna Laetitia Barbauld (born Aikin, 1743-1825) was reluctant to view herself as a professional...
Strained tenderness: Wordsworth, Joanna Hutchinson, and the anxiety of sisterly resistance in "To Joanna".(William Wordsworth)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... JOANNA HUTCHINSON (1780-1843), WILLIAM WORDSWORTH'S YOUNGEST sister-in-law, has been all but forgotten by literary historians of the Wordsworth circle, a fact that has unconsciously reproduced the seeming neglect of Joanna in life by the...
Justice and indeterminacy: Wordsworth's The Borderers and the trials of the 1790s.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... MENTAL "TRANSITION," THE SURPRISING, DRAMATIC MOVEMENT OF mind in which one's moral and intellectual premises no longer bear the weight of external fact, mutate into quite other premises, and challenge what has been thought to be one's...
Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... James Watt. Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 205. $54.95.
This concise book begins with a timely acknowledgement that the genre of Gothic fiction...
The Chained Boy: Orc and Blake's Idea of Revolution. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Christopher Z. Hobson. The Chained Boy: Orc and Blake's Idea of Revolution. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1999. Pp. 412. $55.00.
Orc's first appearance in Blake's America as a chained adolescent bursting his fetters identifies...
Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Sonia Hofkosh. Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 188. $59.95.
This book is a stimulating exploration of the ways gender differentiation has empowered romanticism as literary...
The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Laura Quinney. The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1999. Pp. 208. $30.00.
The University of Virginia Press's jacket advertises The Poetics of Disappointment as "nothing less...
Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854: The Making of a Woman Writer. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Virginia Blain. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854: The Making of a Woman Writer. Aldershot, England and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. 287. $86.95.
Virginia Blain's Caroline Bowles Southey is an unusual but immensely valuable...