{"title":"Converting Byron in Victorian Devotional Poetry Collections","authors":"E. Bontempo","doi":"10.3828/eir.2022.29.2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/eir.2022.29.2.6","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This essay examines the variety of religious remediations of Byron’s poetry in the Victorian period, arguing that the poet’s specialized inclusion in Victorian devotional poetry anthologies signals the logic and politics of evangelical Christianity. Carefully anthologized selections of Childe Harolde’s Pilgrimage and Hebrew Melodies in devotional poetry collections like The Pious Minstrel (1831), Beauties of Modern Sacred Poetry (1862), and The Sunday Book of Poetry (1864) allowed publishers, editors, and readers to claim Byron as either a converted, saved Christian poet or as a lost soul who occasionally expressed the pious insights of someone on the brink of conversion. Byron’s posthumous reception in Victorian evangelical discourse is an understudied phenomenon that parallels other forms of Victorian Byromania that attempt to “convert” the poet and his works. I argue that the remediation and circulation of Byron’s anthologized devotional poetry offers insights into Victorian conceptions of Christian living, prayer, devotion, and piety.","PeriodicalId":281500,"journal":{"name":"Essays in Romanticism","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126613441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maternal-Child Bonds and Resistive Embodiment in Sara Coleridge’s Writing","authors":"Crystal Veronie","doi":"10.3828/eir.2022.29.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/eir.2022.29.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000As the daughter of Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge has long been of scholarly interest. This essay explores Coleridge’s sophisticated perspectives on embodiment, illness, and motherhood and the infringement of medical authority on maternal authority. Drawing on transcriptions of unpublished manuscripts of Coleridge’s “Diary of Her Children’s Early Years” and letters to her husband during her convalescence in Brighton in 1832, this essay argues that Coleridge’s experiences of illness and disability play a foundational role in her development of strategies of resistive embodiment in her writing. These techniques counter the normalizing effect of medical discourse and open new avenues for disabled mothers to bond with their children through writing. As such, this essay demands a reassessment of Coleridge’s contributions to literary discussions of gender, embodiment, and disability, as well as her adaptation of her father’s theory of embodied imagination.","PeriodicalId":281500,"journal":{"name":"Essays in Romanticism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130169090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in Dialogue with Germaine de Staël’s Corinne","authors":"B. Lau","doi":"10.3828/eir.2022.29.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/eir.2022.29.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This essay argues that Pride and Prejudice reflects Austen’s serious engagement with characters and themes in Germain de Staël’s popular novel Corinne, or Italy (1807). The heroine and hero of Pride and Prejudice share numerous personality traits with those in Corinne, and both couples also experience the same central conflict stemming from the hero’s and his family’s prejudice against those from a different social or ethnic group. Just as significant as the similarities, however, are the differences between Staël’s and Austen’s texts, reflecting the ways in which Austen defined her own outlook and literary technique in dialogic exchange with other writers. This essay demonstrates that, far from being a throw-back to the eighteenth century as she has traditionally been viewed, Austen was well-read in the latest works of fiction and embedded her reactions to them in her compositions.","PeriodicalId":281500,"journal":{"name":"Essays in Romanticism","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132384501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Romantic Confluences Editor’s Note","authors":"Toby R. Benis","doi":"10.3828/EIR.2021.28.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/EIR.2021.28.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":281500,"journal":{"name":"Essays in Romanticism","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132212923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Power of Gossip from Mary Robinson’s Tabitha Bramble to Lyrical Tales","authors":"Shelley Jones","doi":"10.3828/EIR.2021.28.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/EIR.2021.28.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This essay focuses on the often overlooked, if not derided, comic tales of Mary Robinson, arguing their centrality to the poetic and political project of Lyrical Tales (1800). It does so in two ways: first, by repositioning Robinson’s use of the pseudonym Tabitha Bramble, not as an off-key performance of Tobias Smollett’s original character, but as an empowered voice authoring her own tale, and, second, by correcting the commonplace critical assumption that the revised poems in Lyrical Tales remain Tabitha Bramble poems. Attending to Robinson’s careful revision process enlarges a critical understanding of Robinson’s relationship to female voice, from her reimagined Tabitha Bramble in newspaper verse to her reclamation of gossip in Lyrical Tales.","PeriodicalId":281500,"journal":{"name":"Essays in Romanticism","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124063594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Another Tyrtaeus”: Byron and the Rhetoric of Philhellenism","authors":"William S. Davis","doi":"10.3828/EIR.2021.28.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/EIR.2021.28.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This essay investigates the philhellenist strategy of labelling Byron “another Tyrtaeus” in support of the Greek uprising against the Ottoman Empire that began in 1821. Beginning with a political speech delivered in Louisiana in 1824, I examine several examples of Byron-as-Tyrtaeus, including poems in both German and French. I argue that depicting Byron as the avatar of the Spartan poet functions to support the notion that modern Greeks are directly connected to their glorious past and therefore deserving of Western aid. If Byron is another Tyrtaeus, it follows that modern Greece is another Hellas. This use of “Byron” likewise insists that “we are all Greeks,” positioning modern Greeks as white, European, and Christian as opposed to their Ottoman oppressors who are othered as barbarians. I note the irony and hypocrisy of philhellenes from a slave-holding nation calling on their fellows to free Greece from Turkish enslavement.","PeriodicalId":281500,"journal":{"name":"Essays in Romanticism","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128368095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perambulating Mice and the Confluence of Sympathy and Moral Education","authors":"Shawna Lichtenwalner","doi":"10.3828/EIR.2021.28.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/EIR.2021.28.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The late eighteenth century was the locus of a burgeoning interest in animal rights. This essay examines the critical role that children’s literature had in the evolution of more consideration for animal welfare. The use of animals in the works of writers such as Sarah Trimmer, Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Dorothy Kilner helped create a form of animal subjectivity as a means of teaching children compassion through the creation of sympathy for nonhuman animals. By fostering compassion for the needs of so-called “dumb creatures” children could also be taught, by extension, to have more consideration for other people. In particular, Dorothy Kilner’s animal autobiography The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse offers a new way of viewing animals who are neither physical nor affectional slaves as worthy of both consideration and compassion.","PeriodicalId":281500,"journal":{"name":"Essays in Romanticism","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124986588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modernismo or Transatlantic Romanticism: José Martí and William Wordsworth","authors":"D. Alegría","doi":"10.3828/EIR.2021.28.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/EIR.2021.28.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In this essay, I argue that Spanish American modernismo (1880-1917) constitutes an affirmation and negation of Romanticism: it is a manifestation of Romanticism’s critical reason and self-definition as literature in the Spanish American sphere, and it is a denial of Romanticism as a European cultural period and as a metropolitan literary model. To explore this contradiction, I contrast the allegories of literature in William Wordsworth’s “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads (1802) and José Martí’s “Prólogo al Poema del Niágara de Juan A. Pérez Bonalde” (1882). Both texts have been considered as pivotal literary manifestos of Romanticism and modernismo, respectively. Through this essay, its theoretical background, and rhetorical reading, I rethink the transatlantic relationship between both cultural movements and their self-definitions as literature.","PeriodicalId":281500,"journal":{"name":"Essays in Romanticism","volume":"167 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129931224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Byron’s Cosmopolitan “East”","authors":"Joey S. Kim","doi":"10.3828/eir.2020.27.2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/eir.2020.27.2.6","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This essay examines the first four of Lord Byron’s Eastern Tales, crafted in the immediate success of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. I argue that these tales constitute an example of Byron’s cosmopolitanism forged directly by his early-career aesthetic and Orientalist inventions. I challenge any fixed notion of Byron’s identifying traits of cosmopolitanism and trace his creation of a textualized and simulated “East.” This “East” is depicted in terms of Byron’s competing personal, aesthetic, and cultural impulses. These impulses culminate in his fourth tale, Lara, and the myth of the cosmopolitan figure for which Byron’s heroic subjectivity became known. By expanding the poet’s subjectivity beyond clear cultural and geographical borders, these tales also raise the question of literary scale and the limits and boundaries of poetic form and content—how to adequately represent the individual poetic subject during an era of shifting global and cosmopolitan relations.","PeriodicalId":281500,"journal":{"name":"Essays in Romanticism","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116571735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}