RomanticismPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2024.0644
Heidi Thomson
{"title":"On Sitting Down with John Keats","authors":"Heidi Thomson","doi":"10.3366/rom.2024.0644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2024.0644","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay I focus on the phenomenon of ‘sitting down’ in Keats's letters and poems. Sitting down, in Keats's personal interactions and poetics, has a range of connotations: these range from exercising individual, focused concentration on the task ahead, to enjoying companionable, shared creativity; from maintaining a certain bedside manner, to establishing a long-distance relationship with siblings; from reluctantly resigning oneself to an invalid existence, to summoning the resourceful energy to compose poetry. For Keats, the expression of sitting down points to the required stillness for the imagination to take flight in poetry, but it also features prominently in self-portrayals throughout his correspondence. This essay demonstrates how sitting down, for Keats, is a transformative act with far more dynamic connotations than is usually assumed.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141715666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RomanticismPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2024.0651
Freya Johnston
{"title":"Stephanie Insley Hershinow, Born Yesterday: Inexperience in the Early Realist Novel","authors":"Freya Johnston","doi":"10.3366/rom.2024.0651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2024.0651","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141693214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RomanticismPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2024.0648
Kelvin Everest
{"title":"Christine and Rab Barnard, Tamsine’s Diary: The Life and Times of a Devon Gentlewoman, 1808–1863","authors":"Kelvin Everest","doi":"10.3366/rom.2024.0648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2024.0648","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141711170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RomanticismPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2024.0649
Pauline Hortolland
{"title":"Elizabeth A. Fay, Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism","authors":"Pauline Hortolland","doi":"10.3366/rom.2024.0649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2024.0649","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141715547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RomanticismPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2024.0640
John Williams
{"title":"Eden, Arcadia, and the Death of Poetry in John Keats’s Ode on Indolence","authors":"John Williams","doi":"10.3366/rom.2024.0640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2024.0640","url":null,"abstract":"This essay proposes an interpretation of Keats’s Odes of 1819 predicated on a reading of the Ode on Indolence. The Ode is shown to be articulating a crisis endemic to Keats’s perception of the foundations of his vocation as a poet. The crisis originates in the poet’s increasing self-doubt regarding his ability to achieve the virtue of `negative capability` he associated with the writers he strove to emulate. Keats’s representation of these anxieties was informed to a significant degree by a recognition that neither the Classical models he revered, nor the Christian faith he had been brought up in, and which played an important role in his formal education, provided a promise of the immortality he craved both for his poetry, and latterly for himself, as his health began to deteriorate. The composition of Ode on Indolence lies at the centre of a matrix of thought within which the other Odes of 1819 unite to become a thematically linked requiem lamenting the demise of Keats’s career as a poet, as well as the fragility of his own mortality.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141691880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RomanticismPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2024.0650
Winifred Liu
{"title":"Beth Lau, Greg Kucich and Daniel Johnson, Keats's Reading / Reading Keats: Essays in Memory of Jack Stillinger","authors":"Winifred Liu","doi":"10.3366/rom.2024.0650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2024.0650","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141698647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RomanticismPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2024.0641
Hiroki Iwamoto
{"title":"‘From his Fellow-countryman’: Keats's Letters Transcribed and Annotated by Benjamin Robert Haydon","authors":"Hiroki Iwamoto","doi":"10.3366/rom.2024.0641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2024.0641","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines Benjamin Robert Haydon's neglected transcripts of John Keats's letters (1845–46). Haydon copied these letters to aid the writing of Richard Monckton Milnes's first biography of the poet, Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848). For reasons unknown, however, subsequent critics and scholars have consigned the transcript copies to oblivion without making available their full text (some of which is omitted in Milnes's Life). In addition to the transcripts themselves, Haydon's annotations offer a new insight into his close relationship with Keats. The material will be of interest to many Keats scholars, especially those who wish to explore the complexities of his reception in the mid-nineteenth century and beyond, as well as the friendship between the poet and the painter.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141700673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RomanticismPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2024.0645
Judith Pascoe
{"title":"John Keats, Jane Taylor, and Poetic Ambition","authors":"Judith Pascoe","doi":"10.3366/rom.2024.0645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2024.0645","url":null,"abstract":"In an 1817 letter, John Keats mentioned giving a copy of Jane Taylor’s Essays in Rhyme, on Morals and Manners (1816) to his sister Fanny Keats. The reference to Jane Taylor hints at how and why Taylor captured Keats’s interest. Keats acquired Taylor’s book at a moment of peak aspiration when he was struggling to write his long, ambitious poem Endymion, and when he had switched publishers to Taylor and Hessey, the publisher of Jane Taylor and her mother Ann Martin Taylor. With a vision of himself as the publisher of major writers, John Taylor was able to gamble on Keats because the Taylors’ books were steady sellers. This article argues that when Keats read Taylor’s Essays in Rhyme, he read a work that met with a more favourable reception than did his own early work. This article further underscores that the commercial trajectories of the Taylors and Keats were intertwined. The profits from the Taylors’ books served to underwrite the publishing of Keats’s work.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141691413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RomanticismPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2024.0647
Winifred Liu
{"title":"Keats and The Stranger at Inveraray","authors":"Winifred Liu","doi":"10.3366/rom.2024.0647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2024.0647","url":null,"abstract":"On Friday 17 July 1818, Keats and Charles Armitage Brown arrived at Inveraray in Scotland, midway through their Scottish walking tour. Here Keats, a passionate theatre-goer, saw for the first time Augustus von Kotzebue’s play The Stranger at a makeshift playhouse inside a barn. Although Keats dedicated a long letter and a poem to this experience the precise location of the barn has never been located, nor has there been discussion of how this performance of The Stranger contributed to Keats’s theatrical experience. In this article I show that the barn-theatre at Inveraray still survives, and suggest how the Stranger performance at Inveraray, heavily ridden with Scottish inflections not present in the playscript, left an impression on Keats. I also point to traces of The Stranger found in later poems such as ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141698033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RomanticismPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2024.0646
Grant F. Scott
{"title":"Memorialising Keats: Severn, Headstones and Hyperion","authors":"Grant F. Scott","doi":"10.3366/rom.2024.0646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2024.0646","url":null,"abstract":"For obvious reasons, Keats's biographers have focused primarily on the last five months of the poet’s life and on the making of his reputation in the later nineteenth century. They have spent very little time, however, on the two uncertain years that followed the poet’s death when his legacy, largely in the hands of Brown, Taylor and Severn, hung in the balance. As Severn was recovering from Keats's death, he fought to establish his own livelihood as a painter and find an adequate means of memorialising his friend. He was preoccupied with two works of art, The Death of Alcibiades and the headstone for Keats's grave. I argue that these artworks represent complex expressions of Severn's grief and in this sense are both memorials, though Alcibiades disguises its aims in a conventional historical painting. In the strong reading of Hyperion embedded in the picture, Severn finds a way of coming to terms with the traumatic aftermath of Keats's death as well as the critical attacks on his poetry. My recent rediscovery of two key manuscript letters of this time by members of the Keats Circle lends support to the argument.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141698964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}