...Elizabeth Hewitt DOWLING DAVID , Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace ( Baton Rouge : Louisiana State UP , 2012 ), pp. 248 , cloth, $39.95 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press The Romantic Business of Books DAVID DOWLING, Literary...

...Charlotte Sussman This essay argues that the problem of witnessing in the Romantic-era novel is caught up with the problem of moral epistemology and that both are inflected by temporality. Focusing on Charles Maturin's 1820 gothic Melmoth the Wanderer , this essay argues that, like many of the...

...., What is meant by "Romantic-era"? Romanticism itself has been perceived recently as being "in crisis" ("Romanticism in Crisis," panel at the 1997 NASSR conference, Hamilton, Ontario). The title, the contents, and the chronology of the Romantic period have been subjected to intense scrutiny...

... .Edinburgh and London, 1774 . Kelly , Gary . “The Limits of Genre and the Institution of Literature: Romanticism Between Fact and Fiction.” Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory . Ed. Kenneth R. Johnston et al., Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990 . 158 –75. Kiely , Robert . The Romantic...

... Romanticism as an academic program. M. H. Abrams, one of the architects of that installation, tracks the “illuminated moment,” topos of an epiphanic breach in chronological time, through the “greater Romantic lyric” of William Wordsworth, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Percy Bysshe Shelley ( 385–90 ) across its...

... ways of telling the same story, namely that of the marriage-plot. The article suggests that the novel's vampire plot is an expression of the dark underside of its romantic plot. Seeing Jonathan's erotically charged incarceration by Dracula, a wealthy and gallant social superior, as a way of imagining...

... Romantic conceptions of literary originality that have narrowed the range of critical responses to Le manoir mystérieux largely to questions about the ethical repercussions of Houde's literary theft. Instead, she argues that Le manoir mystérieux is metonymous of a larger embattled, albeit creative, mode...

... specification “Ein Roman ist ein romantisches Buch” (“a novel is a romantic book”). The relationship of the history of the novel to the history of the book becomes crucial for Walter Benjamin (influenced by Lukács and author of a dissertation largely on Schlegel) in “The Storyteller,” part of a larger...

... globally exportable “Civilization” or capital-C “Culture” itself. That delimiting impulse found expression in what I call the “self-interrupting” features prominent in Romantic-era and Victorian narrative. This essay considers the challenges facing a planned sequel to Disorienting Fiction that would extend...

... than the American. The Last Man further exposes an isomorphism between the imperial and the individual in the romantic politics we still inhabit. If England exerts a sovereign sway, an actual geopolitical force emanating, via maritime prowess from a “sea-surrounded nook,” it is because its isolation...

... genre bildungsroman Romantic aesthetics When the object represented in poetry or painting is such, as we could have no desire of seeing in the reality; then I may be sure that its power in poetry or painting is owing to the power of imitation, and to no cause operating in the thing itself. So...

... Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Contributors AMANDA GILROY is Director of Studies, MA Romantic Histories at University of Groningen. Her...

...Nathan K. Hensley FAVRET MARY A. , War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime ( Princeton : Princeton UP , 2010 ), pp. 262 , cloth, $60.00 , paper, $26.95 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Media Wars...

... novel and Romantic historicism as James Chandler’s England in 1819 (1998), Katie Trumpener’s Bardic Nationalism (1998), Michael Gamer’s Romanticism and the Gothic (2000), and James Buzard’s Disorienting Fiction (2005). Duncan’s follow-up, Scott’s Shadow, is not just another book about Scott or...

... those who, in romantic studies, allow “the contradictory, multivalent, and dissenting strains within romanticism to emerge with new clarity and urgency” (23) and with the effort to grasp those texts within the terms of their own moment—especially those of eighteenth-century moral philosophy. In her...

...: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790 . Oxford : Clarendon , 1997 . Duncan Ian . Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2007 . Gilroy Amanda Verhoeven Wil . “The Romantic-Era Novel: A Special Issue.” Introduction to The...

.... 254 + xiv, cloth, $95.00. CLARA TUITE, Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 242 + xiii, cloth, $55.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 New Millennia1 Austens DEIRDRE LYNCH, ed., janeites...

....’” Romantic Wars: Studies in Culture and Conflict, 1793–1822 . Ed. Philip Shaw. Burlington: Ashgate P, 2000 . 37 –56. Labbe , Jacqueline M. The Romantic Paradox: Love, Violence and the Uses of Romance, 1760–1830 . Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000 . Rogers , Katharine M. “Romantic...

... Freudian explanation: secondary revision, "the imagination's cliche machine" (177), protects against unconscious desire by granting it displaced expression. Thus, in the romantic gothic, "reflection swathes trauma" (175). Chapter 15, "Frankenstein: A Child's Tale," is more of a mixed bag. The...

... cul- tural deficit and, second, because the modern corresponds to an empiricist epistemological foundation that subverts the romantic worldview. The degree to which Hawthorne was both conscious of and troubled by the problems associated with Romanticism is evident from the fact that all...