Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from September 2006

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from September 2006

Prophecy, the law of insanity, and The [First] Book of Urizen.(essay)(William Blake)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Cowper came to me & said. O that I were insane always I will never rest. Can you not make me truly insane. I will never rest till I am so. O that in the bosom of God I was hid. You retain health & yet are as mad as any of us...

The politics of the Coleridgean symbol.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)("The Statesman's Manual")(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Statesman's Manual (1816) has long been familiar to scholars of the history of criticism as a key text in the Romantic valorization of symbol over allegory. (1) However, the piece has in recent years received more...

The "community" of John Clare's Helpston.
September 22, 2006... John Clare's isolation is often remarked upon, yet he moved within and around many different types of communities, both actual and conceptual. This article explores what I want to call Clare's "communal sense" with respect to just one of those...

The promiscuity of print: John Clare's "Don Juan" and the culture of Romantic celebrity.
September 22, 2006... I awoke one morning and found myself famous. --George Gordon, Lord Byron (1) Fame blazed upon me like a comets glare Fame waned & left me like a fallen star. --John Clare (2) In 1840, John Clare was written off for...

Clough, Arnold, Beranger, and the legacy of 1848.(Arthur Hugh Clough, Matthew Arnold, Pierre-Jean de Beranger )
September 22, 2006... In a letter to his friend J. C. Shairp written in early 1847, Arthur Hugh Clough, then still a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, describes Matthew Arnold's return to the college after the latter's visit to Paris: "Matt is full of Parisianism;...

Pater and the genealogy of Hardy's modernity.(Walter Pater, Thomas Hardy)
September 22, 2006... The impact of Walter Pater on Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native has scarcely yet been acknowledged, although Pater's Studies in the History of the Renaissance has now and then been mentioned in connection with the novel. David J. DeLaura...

Hardy, Shaftesbury, and aesthetic education.(essay)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... The boy sighed. "I don't like Christminster!" he said. "Are the great old houses gaols?" "No; colleges," said Jude. --Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1894-95) (1) When he looks at the colleges of Christminster, Little Father...

Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde and the double brain.
September 22, 2006... In "The Decay of Lying: An Observation" (1889; rev. 1891), Oscar Wilde writes that "the transformation of Dr Jekyll reads dangerously like an experiment out of the Lancet." (1) This statement rings true on more levels than Wilde himself...

Recent studies in the nineteenth century.(essay)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Like so many of my predecessors, I have found this an enlightening but overwhelming task. This year I received 218 books (up from last year's apparently anomalous low of 181, after previous years of 209 and 248). There is, alas, little hope of...