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Book SynopsisThis anthology fills the need for a comprehensive, up-to-date collection of the most important contemporary writings on the English romantic poets. It should replace the last anthology of essays on romantic poetry, which appeared almost twenty years ago when few women wrote about these poets, and gender studies of literature had barely begun.
Table of ContentsRomanticism in England / Marilyn Butler
Field, constellation, and aesthetic object / Thomas McFarland
The I altered / Stuart Curran
The romantic emergence : multiplication of alternatives and the problem of systematic entrapment / L.J. Swingle
William Blake
William Blake, illuminated books, and the concept of difference / Joseph Viscomi
Blake's "London" / Heather Glen
Desire gratified and ungratified : William Blake and sexuality / Alicia Ostriker
William Wordsworth
The politics of "Tintern Abbey" / Kenneth R. Johnston
The economy of lyric : The ruined cottage / Alan Liu
Figuring class, sex, and gender : what is the subject of Wordsworth's "Gipsies"? / David Simpson
Bounding lines : The prelude and critical revision / Jonathan Arac
"Splitting the race of man in twain" : prostitution, personification, and The prelude / Mary Jacobus
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The politics of "Frost at midnight" / Paul Magnuson
Literary gentlemen and lovely ladies : the debate on the character of Christabel / Karen Swann. Word and "languageless" meanings : limits of expression in The rime of the ancient mariner / Raimonda Modiano
Romantic lyric and the problem of belief / Gene W. Ruoff
Lord Byron
Shipwreck and skepticism : Don Juan canto II / Andrew M. Cooper
"Their she condition" : cross-dressing and the politics of gender in Don Juan / Susan J. Wolfson
Setting Byron straight : class, sexuality, and the poet / Jerome Christensen
The nameless broken dandy and the structure of authorship / Peter J. Manning
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley as Athanase / Donald H. Reiman
Shelley's Mont Blanc : what the mountain said / Frances Ferguson
Rhyme and the arbitrariness of language / William Keach
The broken mirror : the identity of the text in Shelley's Triumph of life / Tilottama Rajan
Shelley's "Defence of poetry" / Karl Kroeber
John Keats
Romance as wish-fulfillment : The eve of St. Agnes / Stuart M. Sperry
Keats and the canon / Marjorie Levinson
Poetics and the politics of reception : Keats's "La belle dame sans merci" / Theresa M. Kelley
Poem and ideology : a study of Keats's "To autumn" / Geoffrey H. Hartman
Keats and the historical method in literary criticism / Jerome McGann
History, existence, and "To autumn" / Paul H. Fry
