Description
Book SynopsisA polemical anthology of criticism that seeks to redraw the boundaries of the study of romanticism and question romanticism's suppression of the feminine, the material, and the collective, and its opposition to readings centring on these concerns
Trade Review" ... provocative insights." --Nineteenth-Century Literature "... a series of well researched and persuasive essays examining what has been traditionally excluded from the Romantic literary canon: the feminine, the domestic, the local, collective, sentimental and novelistic." --Women's Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter "... a contribution of real quality to ongoing debates." --British Journal for 18th Century Studies
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Wordsworth and Romanticism in the Academy: John Rieder
2. Climbing Parnassus, and Falling Off: Peter T. Murphy
3. A Home for Art: Painting, Poetry and Domestic Interiors
Mary A. Favret
4. A Voice from across the Sea: Communitarianism at the Limits of Romanticism
Anne Janowitz
5. The Uneducated Imagination: Romantic Representations of Labor
Kurt Heinzelman
6. Sexual Politics and Literary History: William Hazlitt's Keswick Escapade and sarah Hazlitt's Journal
Sonia Hofkosh
7. Why Should I Wish for Works?: Literacy, Articulation, and the Borders of Literary Culture
Lucinda Cole and Richard G. Swartz
8. History, Imperialism, and the Aesthetics of the Beautiful: Hemans and the Post-Napoleonic Moment
Nanora Sweet
9. Trans-figuring Byronic Idenity
Nicola J. Watson
10. Butchering James Hogg: Romantic Identity in the Magazine Market
Mark L. Schoenfield
11. An Embarrassing Subject: Use Value and Exchange Value in Early Gothic Characterization
Andera Henderson
12. Liquidating the Sublime: Gossip in Scott's Novels
Jan B. Gordon
13. Romantic Criticism: The State of the Art
Marjorie Levinson
Notes on Contributors
Index
