Studies in Romanticism articles from September 2003

Studies in Romanticism archives from September 2003

Foreword.(Editorial)
September 22, 2003... IT WOULD BE A STRETCH TO CLAIM THAT THE STUDY OF GERMAN ROMANTICISM in the United States has been suffering from neglect or underdevelopment, requiring redress in the form of a special issue of this journal. As the reader will know, German...

[chi] [alpha] Absolute chaos: the early romantic poetics of complex form.
September 22, 2003... DIVIDED BY ZERO AND WITH AN INDETERMINATE COUNTERVALUE, THE "numerator" chaos itself remains indeterminate--indeterminate enough, in early romantic poetics, to cover a broad conceptual field. Chaos is taken up into a calculus of speculative...

The politics of permanent parabasis.
September 22, 2003... THE MAIN DIFFICULTY IN COMING TO TERMS WITH THE POLITICS OF ROmanticism has thus far been seen to lie in the discrepancy that opens between the manifest political claims of many of the romantics and the social and political implications of that...

Epistemological breakdown and passionate eruptions: Kleist's die Verlobung in St. Domingo.
September 22, 2003... E Pluribus Unum. In God we trust. --US Treasury Es ist nicht Fluchtigkeit noch unbeholfene Charakterzeichnung der Autoren, wenn in den kritischen Augenblicken die Schranzen, kaum da[beta] sie Zeit zur Besinnung sich gonnen, den...

Q or, Heine's Romanticism.
September 22, 2003... The epithets "Grotesque" and "Arabesque" will be found to indicate with sufficient precision the prevalent tenor of the tales here published.... I may... have desired to preserve, as far as a certain point, a certain unity of design.... I...

Paul Magnuson. Reading Public Romanticism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv+217. $39.50 cloth. In Reading Public Romanticism, Paul Magnuson not only presents fresh readings of canonical romantic poems located within their public, historical contexts, but also,...

Deidre Lynch. The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Deidre Lynch. The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. 317. $45.00. While attempting to work her magic on Isabel Archer, Mme. Merle says, "I...

Janet Sorensen. The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Janet Sorensen. The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 328. $65.00. Janet Sorensen's The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing is a well-researched and...

Fred Dortort. The Dialectic of Vision: A Contrary Reading of William Blake's Jerusalem.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Fred Dortort. The Dialectic of Vision: A Contrary Reading of William Blake's Jerusalem. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Arts (imprint of Barrytown, LTD), 1998. Pp. xxviii+468. $24.95 paper. In The Dialectic of Vision: A Contrary Reading of...

Thomas McFarland. The Masks of Keats: The Endeavour of a Poet.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Thomas McFarland. The Masks of Keats: The Endeavour of a Poet. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+244. $49.95. William Butler Yeats maintained that a poet achieves mastery of his art only when he assumes a mask, a...

David P. Haney. The Challenge of Coleridge: Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... David P. Haney. The Challenge of Coleridge: Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii + 309. $55.00. Let it be said at once that David Haney has given us a...