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... Charles and Sebastian s relationship, one grounded in an historical understanding of friendships between men in England and America during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Charles and Sebastian s relationship can best be understood as a rom antic friendship. Rom antic friendships were com m...

... novel o f th e R om antic era is clo se ly associated w ith a d is­ course o f m ourning and m elancholia which reform ulates philosophical debates that reflect on the c o n s tru c tio n (and d e co nstru ctio n ) o f the R om antic ego. To th a t end it discusses m elancholy, as e m o tio n a l affect...

... follow s Is meant to serve as a guide to the overall argum ent and additionally to highlight various im portant threads that remain som ewhat diffuse in a book o f this scope. In brief, the author argues that rom antic authors created the category of myth to desig­ nate narrative that provides insight...

... and ahistorical account of Am erican lite r­ ary beginnings" (7). However, nineteenth-century Am erican literary scholarship does suffer from some innocence or m ore accurately, some forge tfu lne ss that Am erican Lazarus can help to dispel. For many, rom anticism is taken to be w h at comes after the Am erican...

... Literature (1790-present). Jeffrey N. Cox is A rts and Sciences Professor of D istinction in English and Humanities at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he is also Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty A ffairs. His contributions to studies in rom anticism include in the Shadows o f...

.... One possible reason for this pervasive interest in the Ro­ m antic/Regency period might be the re-historicization under­ gone by this cultural phase in literary and critical studies since the mid-1980s and the attendant re-location of the written arte­ fact within an array of ever more detailed...

... + 278. $59.95. 0521-57529A-2. A nne Janow itz s Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition has several interwoven agendas. The study aims first to establish a unified field theory o f Romanticism to confront the para­ dox of the archetype o f the Rom antic p o et as both an isolated consciousness...

... had a particularly warm relationship with death and its representational bounty. What we want to consider here is the Victorian rep­ resentation of a particular, and particularly dead, rom antic poet, George Gordon, Lord Byron. We should probably begin with what it m ight mean for Byron...

...Jeffrey C. Robinson Copyright © 2013 Regents of the University of Colorado 2013 A B urst of Rom antic Po etry' J e f f r e y C. R o b in s o n It is not a m atter of rejecting one's heritage but of learning to squander it. Nicolas Bourriaud The brooding of Romanticism continues to burst...

..., and M a ry F a vre t11 th e R om antic period w a s n o t o n ly an age o f revolution but also an era o f near perpetual w a r so th a t b a ttle fie ld s and sites of political unrest becom e one w ay to define the arc of the era, from A u ste rlitz to W aterloo, from the stree ts around the Bastille...

... proves painful and disappointing. In order to be a disposition toward resilience, however, hopefulness must be enacted and cultivated, becoming a practice both of reading and of living. All of which is not to claim that rom anticism is the only road to hopefulness or that hope­ fulness is the only...

... shift in the study o f British Romanticism. The Oedipal character of Romantic criticism, she claims, sen­ tences critics o f Rom anticism to th e reasonable work of a m ourning (17) that accommodates the critical project to the structures of the post-Enlightenment commodity culture. Thus, even when...

... ility to p ro te c t, seal o ff, and s a fe g u a rd .1 By th a t m e tric th e ruined site is no site at all. But, o f course, in Rom anticism , ruins litte r the landscape of m any, if not all, o f the p e rio d 's w ritin g s . W h a t is th e s ig n ific a n c e th e n o f th e R om an tic site...

..., the idea of writing has n o t been carefully and consciously worked ou t by the historian s intellect but, an active agent itself, has started to (p. 85) his m ind, an extraordinarily rom antic trope, perhaps by way o f Longinus whom he h ad read while in the militia, but at any rate an unm im etic...

... estern O ntario. He is the a u tho r o f G othic B odies:The Politics o f Pain in Rom antic Fiction (U niversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1994), Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer A esthetic (U n ive rsity o f M innesota Press, 2001), and num erous articles on g o thic narrative, queer studies, and dance. He...

... such m odern classics as Forster s A Passage to India. In its m ore rom antic manifestations, this tradition may involve the personal identification o f the w riter him self with the O ther culture. Such images as the well-known portrait o f Byron in Al­ banian costume, or the figure o f T. E. Lawrence...

... o f the m ost persistent of these, though it has no generally acknowledged name, has in its early m anifestations been dubbed "the greater Rom antic lyric."1 Before I describe th is o n ce -n e w genre in any detail, I ga the r a n o th e r strand o f the A ldam aFlogan d ia lo g u e: " If o u r d e...

... ent on the politics of the early United States. A ccording to A nderson, Bartram struggles to idealize an d rom anticize the natu ral w orld as a peaceful paradigm against which the U nited States can define its identity as a col­ lective American subject; however, the violence of the natural w orld...

..., abundant stasis, cenobitic dream. Risen figures, ripened nectars, ultim ate geometry. Icon o f thunderclaps, icon of minute harvests. Astrom antic icons. Nocturnal radiance, sulphured umber, knowledge of morning. Slanted recess, m ultiplication o f the Mother, folded cherubic pinions. Gestures of blessing...

... o u t "relying upon mysticisms derived from animism, religion, or rom anticism ."8 Jane Bennett contrasts herself to "some versions of deep ecology" by making it clear her material monism is nei­ ther "a sm ooth harmony of parts nor a diversity unified by a common s p irit."9 lovino and Oppermann...