RomanticismPub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2022.0543
J. Wharton
{"title":"Deborah Weiss The Female Philosopher and her Afterlives: Mary Wollstonecraft, the British Novel, and the Transformation of Feminism, 1796–1811","authors":"J. Wharton","doi":"10.3366/rom.2022.0543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0543","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42861380","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 : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2022.0536
Nick Groom
{"title":"Polidori’s ‘The Vampyre’: Composition, Publication, Deception","authors":"Nick Groom","doi":"10.3366/rom.2022.0536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0536","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a detailed new analysis of the conception, composition, publication, and immediate reception of John William Polidori’s influential story, ‘The Vampyre’ (1819), first attributed to Lord Byron. Polidori was instrumental in publishing the tale – and did so with a certain guile as part of a larger literary strategy. Yet he nevertheless fell victim to the duplicity of the publisher Henry Colburn. Polidori was consequently vilified by the Byron circle, which ultimately wrecked his career as a writer. What emerges from this close attention to publication is that the text is unlikely to have been written in 1816 at the Villa Diodati, alongside Frankenstein, but two and a half years later. This therefore challenges its significance as a supposed portrait of Byron, and allows Byron’s own contribution to vampire fiction (‘A Fragment’) to be re-evaluated. The paper also examines the pieces published alongside ‘The Vampyre’ on its first appearance, suggesting the likely authors of these supplementary texts.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46129590","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 : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2022.0534
Jacob Lloyd
{"title":"‘Less gross than bodily’: Berkeleian Idealism in ‘This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison’","authors":"Jacob Lloyd","doi":"10.3366/rom.2022.0534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0534","url":null,"abstract":"This essay offers a reconsideration of the philosophy of ‘This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison’ (1797). While some previous critical accounts have been dismissive of the utility of applying George Berkeley’s thought to the poem, I argue that the poem draws on the part of Berkeley’s philosophy now known as subjective idealism. In A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710), Berkeley posits that all objects are simply collections of ideas, an idea’s existence consisting in its being perceived (‘ esse is percipi’). I contend that when Coleridge imagines Lamb ‘gazing round […] till all doth seem / Less gross than bodily, a living Thing / That acts upon the mind’, he is depicting Lamb as realizing that the world is composed of ideas that emanate from the powerful mind of God. The poem therefore occupies an important transitional point in Coleridge’s intellectual development when he was, briefly, a Berkeleian idealist.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44320094","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 : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2022.0538
I. Ferris
{"title":"A Bookish Intervention: Thomas Bewick’s British Birds and the Reconfiguration of Illustrated Natural History","authors":"I. Ferris","doi":"10.3366/rom.2022.0538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0538","url":null,"abstract":"This essay argues that the impact of Bewick’s natural histories on nineteenth-century reading culture owed not simply to their engravings but to an innovative manipulation of the affordances of the material form of the book-volume. Governed by a commitment to the printed book as a formative medium in the making of reading relations, Bewick reconfigured the fundamental unit of illustrated natural history, the double-structured unit of description, and altered the dynamics of natural history reading. Repositioning readers so as to bring them into closer proximity both to the book and to the natural world around them, his celebrated bird book brings into view often overlooked linkages between the period’s intensified bookishness, emergent knowledge fields, the reading public, and generic innovation that were to reshape the culture of reading in the nineteenth century.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42164025","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 : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2022.0542
Kurtis Hessel
{"title":"Richard C. Sha Imagination and Science in Romanticism","authors":"Kurtis Hessel","doi":"10.3366/rom.2022.0542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0542","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47370825","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 : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2022.0541
D. Coleman
{"title":"Emily Senior The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834: Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity and Nikki Hessell Romantic Literature and the Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations","authors":"D. Coleman","doi":"10.3366/rom.2022.0541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0541","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48804140","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 : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2022.0535
B. Graver
{"title":"Neoclassical Wordsworth","authors":"B. Graver","doi":"10.3366/rom.2022.0535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0535","url":null,"abstract":"This essay looks at Wordsworth’s ‘Laodamía’ as an example of a neoclassical phase that his writings took, beginning in 1814 and continuing for about a decade. I examine Wordsworth’s verse form, an adaptation of the stanza Shakespeare used in ‘Venus and Adonis’, and also look at the ways in which he modifies his classical sources, especially Ovid’s Heroides xiii. The essay then considers the style of the poem, especially how Wordsworth incorporates translations and paraphrases of passages from Virgil’s Aeneid, which is itself one of his classical sources. The essay ends with an analysis of the revisions he made, over several years, to the conclusion of the poem.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46958272","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 : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.3366/rom.2022.0533
Tim Sommer
{"title":"‘Far more deeply interfused’: ‘Tintern Abbey’ between Burkean and Kantian Sublimity","authors":"Tim Sommer","doi":"10.3366/rom.2022.0533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0533","url":null,"abstract":"This essay traces the presence of eighteenth-century aesthetics in Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’. It argues that the poem’s use of the term ‘sublime’ is more than just accidental. Rather than merely rehearsing a contemporary aesthetic commonplace, Wordsworth’s references to the sublime are intertextually linked to two eighteenth-century models of the concept, the one outlined in Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), the other developed in Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgement (1790). Proceeding from a delineation of the Burkean and Kantian semantics of sublimity and a reading of their reverberations in Wordsworth’s prose fragment ‘The Sublime and the Beautiful’, the essay suggests that ‘Tintern Abbey’ juxtaposes a sensationist sublime modelled on Burke’s Enquiry with the intellectualist understanding of the term formulated in Kant’s third Critique.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45116502","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}