Studies in Romanticism articles from September 2004

Studies in Romanticism archives from September 2004

Necessary evils: Unitarian theodicy in "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere".
September 22, 2004... What we have most to dread, is the almost irrecoverable debasement of our minds by looking off from God, living without him, without a due regard to his presence and providence, and idolizing ourselves and the world, considering other things as...

Burke, Paine, and the newspapers: an "archaeology" of political knowledge 1789-93.
September 22, 2004... The MURTHER took place at four o'clock this morning, and was conducted in the most private manner. The Guillotine was erected in ya court of the Temple--a hole was dug in it, into which the King's head fell, and his body precipitated afterward...

"The child of a fierce hour": Shelley and Napoleon Bonaparte.(Percy Shelley)
September 22, 2004... IN SHELLEY: THE PURSUIT, RICHARD HOLMES DISCUSSES A "DIFFICULT" August 1815 letter from Percy Shelley to his friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg. (1) Holmes finds this letter "difficult" because Shelley's remarks on the "final denouement of the...

Joanna Baillie's reflections on the passions: the "Introductory Discourse" and the properties of authorship.
September 22, 2004... IN 1800, SARAH SIDDONS PLAYED THE FEMALE LEAD, LADY JANE, IN JOANNA Baillie's new play, DeMonfort. This turn of events was no doubt gratifying to Baillie not only because of her friendship with Siddons, but because Siddons was the foremost...

Division below the surface: Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative.
September 22, 2004... To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legend. --Erich Auerbach, Mimesis NEARLY EVERY MATERIAL FEATURE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO'S 1789 MEMOIR is, as it happens, interesting--not...

Lionel Trilling and the end of Romanticism.
September 22, 2004... IN HIS WELL-KNOWN PREFACE TO THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION (1950) LIONEL Trilling notes that John Stuart Mill, "at odds with Coleridge all down the intellectual and political line, nevertheless urged all liberals to become acquainted with this...

Philip Shaw. Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Philip Shaw. Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination. Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xiv+260. 12 illus. $69.96. The historical materialist... takes cognizance of [the historical subject] in order to...

David Perkins. Romanticism and Animal Rights.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... David Perkins. Romanticism and Animal Rights. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi+ 190. $60.00. It is no surprise that eco-criticism has found fertile ground in the writings of the romantic period. There is now...

Jane Moody. Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770-1840.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Jane Moody. Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770-1840. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 278. $75.00. Rigorously researched and superbly written, this study opens new dimensions of inquiry for romanticists and theater...

Paul Elledge. Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Paul Elledge. Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii. + 221. 15 b/w illus. $47.00. Paul Elledge's Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out,...

Peter Otto. Blake's Critique of Transcendence: Love, Jealousy, and the Sublime in The Four Zoas.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Peter Otto. Blake's Critique of Transcendence: Love, Jealousy, and the Sublime in The Four Zoas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii + 365, illus. $85.00. About 1794, the bookseller Richard Edwards commissioned William Blake to...