...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...

... 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. Some scholars have argued...

... .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...

...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...

... with the philosophy of history. Lukács's critical project has been sustained in the United States by Fredric Jameson, whose return to the thesis of The Historical Novel in the closing essay of The Antinomies of Realism (2013) is at odds with his revisitation of the Romantic genealogy of the pre-Marxist Theory...

... account makes it. Like his contemporary Bakhtin, Walter Benjamin read and thought about both Lukács and Schlegel (Benjamin’s dissertation, “The Concept of Criticism in Ger- man Romanticism,” uses Schlegel throughout to exemplify “the romantic theory of criticism” [118 Because we so regularly draw...

... with a 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...

... 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...

... with the material conditions that surrounded its publication in 1880, exposes a wider range of approaches to literary authorship and acceptable literary practice in nineteenth-century Quebec than literary historians have heretofore considered appropriate. The author shifts attention away from the Romantic...

...Mike Goode IAN DUNCAN, Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007), pp. 416, cloth, $39.50. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Scott’s Edinburgh ian duncan, Scott’s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Princeton...

... in the Age of Romanticism 1793–1815, or Shelley’s The Mask of Anarchy, but with refracted traces: the hints or ghosts of something absent. In these remainders or affective residues, knowledge takes nonpropositional form, eluding concep- tual positivity. When read for these traces, Romantic literature...

... 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...

...’’ (12), one that begins in the 1790s with events leading up to the Irish Uprising (1798) and the Act of Union (1801) and ends in 1829 with Catholic emancipation. Her book surveys the rich terrain of Irish fiction in the Romantic period and makes a case for the Irish novel as ‘‘a single cultural...

....’” 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...

... Zohn. Ed. Hannah Arendt. New York: Schocken Books, 1968 . Brown , Homer Obed . Institutions of the English Novel, from Defoe to Scott . Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1997 . Chandler , James . England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic...

... of the psychoanalytic scene, teasing out the affiliations of romanticism with key aspects of contemporary analytic theory and practice and thereby enlarging the range of current interdisciplinary romantic criticism. Yet the book does not ultimately come to rest within an entirely intimate sphere; its attention...

... , Terryl L. , and Anthony P. Russell “ Romantic Agonies: Human Suffering and the Ethical Sublime .” Romanticism Across the Disciplines . Ed. Larry Peer. New York: UP of America, 1998 . 231 –53. Gordon , Jan . “A-filiative Families and Subversive Reproduction: Gossip in Jane Austen,” Genre...

... . Jane Austen’s Art of Memory . New York: Cambridge UP, 1989 . Hofkosh , Sonia . “The Writer’s Ravishment: Women and the Romantic Writer—the Example of Byron.” Romanticism and Feminism . Ed.Anne K. Mellor Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1988 . 93 –114. Johnson , Samuel . The Rambler. Ed. W.J...

... 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 three of the prefaces to his novels of the early 1850s address these concerns...