Studies in Romanticism articles from September 2002

Studies in Romanticism archives from September 2002

Mapping misogyny: Godwin's Fleetwood and the staging of Rousseauvian education.(William Godwin, Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
September 22, 2002... "It is suffering only that can inspire us with true sympathy." (Fleetwood 45) "The man who did not know pain would know neither the tenderness of humanity nor the sweetness of commiseration. His heart would be moved by nothing. He would...

Romanticizing adolescence: Godwin's St. Leon and the matter of Rousseau.(William Godwin, Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
September 22, 2002... LATE IN WILLIAM GODWIN'S ST. LEON: A TALE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (1799), when an alchemist spies on the daughters he earlier abandoned, the scene is linked with the mythos of Jean-Jacques Rousseau--especially with Rousseau's infamous...

William Godwin and the ars rhetorica.
September 22, 2002... THERE IS A RECIPROCAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A NATION'S POLITICAL institutions and the value it places on oratory. Some form of this maxim would have appeared a commonplace remark (and a locus of argument) throughout the eighteenth century, and...

Politics, passion and the "puritan temper": Godwin's critique of enlightened modernity.(William Godwin)
September 22, 2002... DAVID BROMWICH HAS REMARKED HOW THINKERS AT THE TURN OF THE eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--specifically, Burke and Wordsworth--made the discovery that autonomy and sociability could never be completely reconciled. (1) Richard Rorty...

Saree Makdisi. Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xv+ 248. $21.95. To appreciate this powerful book one has, at the outset, to make a voluntary suspension of disbelief, for Saree Makdisi asks us to travel through great swathes of time and...

Morton D. Paley. Apocalypse & Millennium in English Romantic Poetry.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. 323. $72.00. When, as commanded in Revelation, John of Patmos takes the little book from the hand of the angel and eats it, he finds it both sweet in his mouth and bitter in his belly. Though the...

David B. Ruderman. Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+291, with index. $39.50. David B. Ruderman's Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought is probably the last book readers expect to see...

Andreas Schonle. Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790-1840.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. vii + 296. Why study travel? In this informative monograph, constructed around select texts of the sentimentalist and romantic period, Andreas Schonle nominates the travelogue as a focus for...

Clifford Siskin. The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain 1700-1830.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. x+285. $41.95 cloth/$16.95 paper. This is an ambitious and provocative book which asks us not only to rethink the changing history of British writing in relation to labor in...

Malcolm Kelsall. Jefferson and the Iconography of Romanticism: Folk, Land, Culture and the Romantic Nation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. 207. $39.95. Malcolm Kelsall's transatlantic rendering of post-Revolutionary Jeffersonian culture is a welcome corrective to the periodizing and geographical fictions that continue to frame our...

Books received.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2002... ABELES, FRANCINE F., ed. The Pamphlets of Lewis Carroll, Vol. 3: The Political Pamphlets and Letters of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Related Pieces: A Mathematical Approach. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2002. $70.00. ALLAN, SEAN. The...