{"title":"The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period ed. by Devoney Looser (review)","authors":"Ann Frank Wake","doi":"10.5860/choice.191745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.191745","url":null,"abstract":"to a range of audiences, Jackson does not really consider in detail philosophical theories of aesthetic judgment. However, she is still able to make a convincing case by illustrating the circumstances that have led readers to prefer Keatsean imagination to Huntian fancy. Finally, Chapter 5 looks at recovery projects: specifically, the enthusiasts and scholars who recuperated the reputations of Blake and John Clare, and the question, articulated through the example of Robert Bloomfield, of how far it is possible to re-popularize any apparently neglected author. Like Crabbe or Hunt, whom she describes as restrained in their opinions of their own merit, Jackson’s claims for her achievement in Those Who Write for Immortality are modest: “one of my fears when I embarked on this project,” she states, “was that the outcome was obvious, the conclusion foregone” (p. 217). While it is the case that the central argument concerning the contingent nature of literary fame will not seem particularly controversial to contemporary scholars and the decision to write with a general audience in mind may mean that the narratives of individual authors will be fairly familiar to specialists, there are also plenty of significant insights to be gained from bringing these authors’ histories into direct conversation. Jackson does important work in drawing together, under a single thematic head, the arguments of previous critics in the areas of celebrity studies, literary afterlives, authorship, and reader-response. In doing so, she redirects critical scrutiny back onto readers and, perhaps more significantly, critics themselves, noting that sometimes (as in the case of Keats) critical debate can seem to have moved on very little in two hundred years (p. 130). Despite having different priorities from today’s scholars, nineteenth-century reviewers and biographers, Jackson contends, “often set the terms that still define [our] subject” (p. 225), a point well worth considering in light of critics’ own roles as literary canon-makers. University of Leeds Alys Mostyn","PeriodicalId":29884,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY JOURNAL","volume":"65 1","pages":"166 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48413470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy: Rebellious Daughters, 1786–1826 by Orianne Smith, and: Unbounded Attachment: Sentiment and Politics in the Age of the French Revolution by Harriet Guest (review)","authors":"H. Linkin","doi":"10.5860/choice.51-2531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.51-2531","url":null,"abstract":"At the conclusion of each chapter, and again at the book’s end, Cox turns our attention from the wartime of Romanticism to the films, plays and books of our militarized present. In the end, where we situate Romanticism geographically matters less than the challenge Jeffrey Cox discerns in these “sallies”: will the shadow of war in our time arrest us, or will we find forms that move beyond? Johns Hopkins University Mary A. Favret","PeriodicalId":29884,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY JOURNAL","volume":"64 1","pages":"138 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71143716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Literary Advertising and the Shaping of British Romanticism by Nicholas Mason (review)","authors":"D. Finkelstein","doi":"10.1353/book.25268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/book.25268","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29884,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY JOURNAL","volume":"33 1","pages":"139 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66388028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Annual Bibliography for 2013","authors":"Ben P. Robertson","doi":"10.1484/j.yls.5.103737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.yls.5.103737","url":null,"abstract":"The annual bibliography of the Keats-Shelley Journal catalogues recent scholarship related to British Romanticism, with emphasis on secondgeneration writers—particularly John Keats, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt, and William Hazlitt. The bibliography includes books, chapters in books, book reviews, articles in journals, other bibliographies, dissertations, and editions of Romantic-era literature and historical documents. The listings are compiled primarily from the catalogues of major British and American publishers and from the tables of contents of books and major journals in the fie ld. The fir st section of the bibliography lists a wide range of scholarly work on Romanticism that might be of interest to the Journal’s readers, while the subsequent sections list items that deal more specific ally with the six aforementioned authors. Because the length of the bibliography precludes my annotating every item, only some entries have annotations—primarily books dealing with the second-generation Romantics. The following bibliography catalogues scholarship for the year 2013, along with the occasional item that inadvertently may have been excluded from the annual bibliography in previous years or that may have arrived too late for inclusion. While I have made every attempt to keep the bibliography accurate and comprehensive, the occasional error or omission is inevitable. Please send corrections, additions, and citations for upcoming bibliographies to Ben P . R obertson at Troy University (ksjbiblio@troy.edu).","PeriodicalId":29884,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY JOURNAL","volume":"45 1","pages":"159 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1484/j.yls.5.103737","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66718516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire by Thomas Mclean (review)","authors":"I. Ferris","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2015.0103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2015.0103","url":null,"abstract":"advances the work of Michael Scrivener and William Keach, among others. His concluding reading of Shelley’s Swellfoot the Tyrant, which builds on the work of Steven Jones and Olivia Smith, among others, explores the shared figures of literary and graphic satire of the period. Similarly, Gardner provides a compelling reading of two of Charles Lamb’s neglected poems, revealing the liberal (though not radical) politics of this author who, since Hazlitt, has been deemed largely apolitical (p. 128). The strength of these readings of Bamford, Shelley, and Lamb are not in the novelty of methodological approach but in their attention to political allusions, tropes conventional in radical culture, and satirical humor. More original in approach are Gardner’s readings of William Hone and Lord Byron. Picking up on Ian Haywood’s thesis that radical print culture was characterized by “a process of continual appropriation and reappropriation, of rapid response, innovation, imitation, assimilation and subversion,” Gardner argues that Hone “utilized whatever narratives and means he had at his disposal,” including “pirating and parodying some of the best-known and ablest poets of the day” so as “to bring their weight to the side of radicalism” (pp. 36–37, 64). To this end, he discusses Hone’s “full length Byronic counterfeit,” Don Juan Canto the Third, a work entirely sympathetic to the radical agenda and geared to a broader reading public than any poem Byron himself authored. In a compelling contrast, Gardner moves to a reading of Byron’s failed play, Marino Faliero, a thinly-veiled but equivocating response to Cato Street in which Byron “examine[d] his own relationship with a British politics that had come into being only after he had left the country” (p. 131). Where Hone was fully engaged in reform efforts, Byron remained distant from and ambivalent about events that would “test his aristocratic loyalty” (p. 194). This is where Gardner’s study is strongest and most lively: in demonstrating how the commitment to radical politics variously played out in late Romantic literature. Poetry and Popular Protest is a very welcome addition to scholarship on radical Romanticism. Sam Houston State University Michael Demson","PeriodicalId":29884,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY JOURNAL","volume":"62 1","pages":"149 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66465860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeing Suffering in Women's Literature of the Romantic Era","authors":"J. Darcy","doi":"10.5860/choice.46-3103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.46-3103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29884,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY JOURNAL","volume":"59 1","pages":"142-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71123212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Byron's \"An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill\": The Embarrassment of Industrial Culture","authors":"T. Mole","doi":"10.1057/9780230288386_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288386_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29884,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY JOURNAL","volume":"2003 1","pages":"28-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58212025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}