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Subsistence and the Elemental European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 David Sigler
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2024)
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Italian Impromptus: A Study of P.B. Shelley’s Writings in Italian with an Annotated Edition European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Elisa Cozzi
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2024)
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Hopeless Romantics: Australian Studies in Romanticism European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Claire Knowles, Thomas H. Ford, Alexis Harley
For most of the twentieth century, Romantic writers were largely ignored by serious Australian scholars even as they were celebrated and imitated outside the academy. This article tracks the belate...
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Songs of (Settler Moves to) Innocence European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Nikki Hessell
This article considers how public recitation or quotation of Romantic poetry in Aotearoa New Zealand can be read within Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s framework of “settler moves to innocence.” Exami...
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Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics/Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Evan Gottlieb
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2024)
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Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen/Jane Austen and Other Minds: Ordinary Language Philosophy in Literary Fiction European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Shawn Normandin
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2024)
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Editorial Statement European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Benjamin Colbert, Lucy Morrison
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2024)
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Creation Stories: Reproductive Crisis and the “Birth / Abortive” of Science Fiction European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Tobias Menely
This essay develops a genealogy of feminist science fiction as a revisionary reckoning with the enduring influence of patriarchal creation stories. Situating my reading practice in relation to the ...
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1890s Romanticism: Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson and the Construction of a National Cultural Imaginary European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Jeremy George
This article re-examines the nationalist poetry published by canonical Australian poets A. B. “Banjo” Paterson and Henry Lawson in the influential journal the Bulletin from 1889 to 1900 as a delaye...
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“Embronzed with the African Tint”: Racial Color-coding and Intergenerational Inheritance in Jamaica, St. Domingo and England in the Age of Abolition European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Sara Fernandes, Deirdre Coleman
In eighteenth-century fiction and drama, race appears as a mutable characteristic, with skin color conditioned by culture and environment. Increasingly, and especially in the Romantic period, race ...
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Strange Romanticism: Herman Melville’s Typee (1846) European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Alex Watson
In Typee (1846), Herman Melville presents a fictionalized version of his real experience of jumping ship and living with the Tai Pī people on the island of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. Melville cate...
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Scribbled in the Stars: Milton, Keats, Mallarmé European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Robert Boncardo, Justin Clemens, Meegan Hasted
This essay presents three case studies from a modern European poetic lineage, three poetic generations that attended to stars and constellations in the wake of modern cosmological systems within wh...
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The Gothic Pasts of Stranger Things European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Francesca Kavanagh
Critical analysis of Netflix’s hit show Stranger Things has largely emphasized its nostalgic engagement with 1980s Americana, and particularly that decade’s science fiction and horror films. Howeve...
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Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Romantic/Assembly and Its Other in German Romantic Literature and Thought: The Inexhaustible Gathering European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Christoph Bode
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2024)
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Alexander von Humboldt: Perceiving the World European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Todd Kontje
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2024)
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Orientation in European Romanticism: The Art of Falling Upwards European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Wayne Deakin
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2024)
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On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Elizabeth Neiman
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2024)
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Frankenstein in Theory: A Critical Anatomy/Techno-Magism: Media, Mediation, and the Cut of Romanticism European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Mark A. McCutcheon
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2024)
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God Lives in the Sun: The Critique of Evangelical Abolitionism in William Blake's “The Little Black Boy” European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Jonathan Perris
Late eighteenth-century narratives of enslavement were, for London readers such as William Blake, an “authentic” source of information about the British Empire's slave trade—the horrors of the Midd...
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Wordsworth, Ecocriticism, and Natural Education European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Catherine Engh
This essay argues that Wordsworth reinvents the Enlightenment’s concept of natural education in ways that resonate with theories of ecology in a time of global warming. In book 5 of The Prelude, Wo...
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Florence as Muse: Byron and Shelley’s Tuscan Competition European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Madeleine Callaghan
Florence’s art and poetry captured the imaginations of Byron and Shelley. During the nineteenth century, the city-state and the surrounding countryside inspired literary tourists and Byron and Shel...
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Vibrant Meter: Periods, Pulsations, and Prosody in Blake’s Milton European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Richard Ness
Milton is known for its unorthodox treatment of time; however, scholarship tends to overlook one temporality of central importance: meter. This article argues that Milton’s metrical experiments are...
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Coleridge in the Pleasure Dome of Hebrew European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Lilach Naishtat-Bornstein
Samuel Taylor Coleridge maintained a deep relationship with Hebrew. In this article, I examine the Hebrew infrastructure of his poem “Kubla Khan” (1816) and the translations of this poem into Hebre...
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Towards an “Aesthetics of Weather”: Gustaf Fröding and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Carl-Ludwig Conning
In spring 1892 the Stockholm literary magazine Ord och bild commissioned Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding (1860–1911) with a translation of Shelley’s “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (1816). At the time, F...
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“Do ye Sweep the Lyre?”: Romantic Resonances in The Poems of Ossian European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Renee K. Buesking
James Macpherson’s The Poems of Ossian establishes an elegiac bardic voice that emerges out of the Ossian poems and was especially inspirational for Romantic writers. Fragments of Ancient Poetry (1...
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“A heroine of ancient times”: Maternity, History, and Empire in Jane West’s The Advantages of Education and The Mother European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Angela Rehbein
Jane West’s novel The Advantages of Education (1793) and her critically neglected epic poem The Mother (1809) signal the role of historical discourse in establishing cultural importance for white B...
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Of Bearish Persons, Lions, and Puppy-Dogs: Biographic Historicism in Hazlitt, De Quincey and Trelawny European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Brecht de Groote
This article reads selected biographical work by Hazlitt, De Quincey and Trelawny on a range of key figures—chiefly, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley. In line with extant scholarship, its ...
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Jerusalem Moves West: Undoing the Hebrew Bible in Blake’s Milton and Jerusalem European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Zoe Beenstock
William Blake’s evocative figuration of England as Jerusalem is central to debates about his attitude to nationalism. Nonetheless, Jerusalem in his poems is often read as not actually referring to ...
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Romantic Survival: Disaster Beyond Repair in Lyrical Ballads European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Konstantinos (Kos) Pozoukidis
This article explores representations of disaster and survival in the 1798 edition of the Lyrical Ballads. It starts with Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere,” a poem exempl...
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Vital Heat and the Organized Body: Burke, Blake, The French Revolution and The [First] Book of Urizen European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Tara Lee
During the French Revolution, it had become apparent that the conventional metaphor of the body politic, framed around a stable hierarchical relationship between the monarchical head and the subser...
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Coleridge and the Materiality of Translucence European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Blake Allen
ABSTRACT Paul de Man’s thoroughgoing critique of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s symbol, which has had a lasting impact on Romantic scholarship, is based upon the supposed incompatibility of materiality and “translucence.” This article sets out to deconstruct de Man’s argument on the basis of a specific appeal to materiality. But it also takes his critique as a virtuous provocation to clarify the relationship
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Retrieving and Renewing European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Honor Rieley
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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Emanuel Swedenborg's Conjugial Love and the Erotic Politics of William Blake's Epics European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Matthew Leporati
ABSTRACT This article argues that Blake draws upon and revises aspects of Swedenborg's theology, especially the concept of “conjugial love,” to construct an erotic universe that objects to the regressive politics of his age. Situating Milton and Jerusalem in the epic revival of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the article argues that Blake's incorporation and revision of Swedenborgian
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“But Poets Have Never Been Botanists”: The Literary Herbarium in Charlotte Smith’s Poetry European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Carolin Boettcher
ABSTRACT Displaying the plant specimens in their physical environments without subjugating them to any fixed spatial or temporal conditions, Charlotte Smith creates a literary herbarium that encompasses the identifiable qualities of the plants included in her poetry and that foregrounds the continually transformed and transforming material habitats and relationships of the nonhuman and human worlds
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Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650–1890 European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-07-21 L. Adam Mekler
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation; Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Samantha Botz
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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Against the Uprooted Word: Giving Language Time in Transatlantic Romanticism European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Nancy Yousef
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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Book Making and the Romantic Paper Archive European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Luisa Calè
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Stephanie O’Rourke
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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Byron Among the English Poets: Literary Tradition and Poetic Legacy; The Shelleys and the Brownings: Textual Reimaginings and the Question of Influence European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Brian Goldberg
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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Keats’s Reading / Reading Keats: Essays in Memory of Jack Stillinger; A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-07-21 G. Kim Blank
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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Written in Water: Keats’s Final Journey European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Grant F. Scott
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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The Gentle Shepherd, The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-07-21 John Goodridge
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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Climate Changes: Mary Shelley on Roger Dodsworth European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Leila Walker
ABSTRACT In the summer of 1826, melting snows revealed a man frozen nearly 200 years, reanimated by a passing doctor. Reports of Roger Dodsworth, formerly deceased, spread from the French papers to launch a flurry of essays in the English periodicals. While the summer of 1816 has been central to discussions of climate, global politics, and Romantic literature, the thaw of 1826 has been relatively neglected
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New Romanticisms European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Andrew McInnes, Tilottama Rajan, David Collings
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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Waste in the Nineteenth-Century Lyric European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Dana Moss
ABSTRACT Lingering with waste might seem antithetical for an issue all about newness, but although waste demonstrates persistence, it also indicates change: a body wasting away, an environment becoming a wasteland, a person wasting opportunities or good will. In this essay I argue that the nineteenth-century lyric helps us to think about the accumulation of unusable products, dead ends, waste, as central
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Wordsworth’s Webs: Spinning the Ecological Elegy European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Diana Little
ABSTRACT This article investigates two sites of Wordsworthian entanglement: the spider’s web across the abandoned well in “The Ruined Cottage” and the “web spun” in a neglected room in “The Brothers, A Pastoral Poem.” Both webs show Wordsworth’s attention to a theory of ecological entanglement that was emerging in the late 1790s, and more: Wordsworth’s experimental weaving of ecology and elegy. Wordsworth’s
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Reflections on Remixing New Romanticisms: A Plenary Workshop on Anti-Racist Teaching European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Indu Ohri, Lenora Hanson
ABSTRACT This essay is a co-written reflection by two educators on a plenary workshop we led together called “Remixing New Romanticisms: A Workshop on Anti-racist Teaching” during the 2022 NASSR/BARS Conference. We presented on the teaching resource we developed as inaugural fellows of the 2021–2022 Keats-Shelley Association of America/Romantic Circles Anti-Racist Pedagogy Colloquium. First, we explain
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“Load Every Rift”: Power, Opposition, and Community in Romantic Poetry and Heavy Metal European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Amanda Blake Davis, Matthew Sangster
ABSTRACT This essay discusses ideas presented on the Romanticism and Metal Studies panels at NASSR/BARS 2022, surveying the transdisciplinary field of Metal Studies and exploring metal’s Romantic inheritances by reading the poetry of canonical Romantics—including John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth—alongside and against metal music and culture. In the spirit of New Romanticisms
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“Better Lore” of the Romantic Coast: Maritime Ecologies and Cultural Infrastructure from England, Scotland, and Beyond European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Samuel Baker, Alexander Dick, Eric Gidal, Gerard Lee McKeever, Susan Oliver
ABSTRACT This essay adapts presentations the authors shared at the Edge Hill NASSR/BARS conference in the Summer of 2022 into a collaboratively constructed discussion. It reflects on what a recent “coastal turn” in ecocriticism, critical geography, and related fields might contribute to Romantic studies, and considers how coastal geographies (real and imagined) have informed aesthetics, politics, and
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Romanticism’s Fellow Creatures European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Alastair Hunt, Ron Broglio, Katey Castellano, Mario-Ortiz Robles
ABSTRACT This panel opens up innovative ways of thinking about Romanticism and “the problem of sharing our earth with other creatures.” Over the last couple of decades, the crisis in human relations with animals has deteriorated to the point that it has become increasingly recognized as a constitutive part of the global environmental crisis. Like the climate crisis, the “animal crisis” originates with
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Funny Feelings in Nature European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Erin Lafford, Matthew Ward
ABSTRACT Funny Feelings and the Natural World, a panel convened for the joint NASSR/BARS conference at Edge Hill in August 2022, offered new ways of reflecting on the relation between human emotions and the environment. In contrast to the more sublime aesthetic categories and solemn moods that continue to dominate approaches to Romanticism and environmental criticism more broadly, we considered various
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New Romantic Painting and the Image of History European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Chris Bundock
ABSTRACT For contemporary Cree artist Kent Monkman, painting offers a means of rehistoricizing Indigenous life. However, rather than attempt to capture a putative authenticity, Monkman's work questions the relationship between visual representation and historical truth, deeply complicating his own task. This complication is managed in part through the careful deployment of self-reflection, such that
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Free Falling: Wilderson with de Man European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Jan Mieszkowski
ABSTRACT Focusing on the work of Frank B. Wilderson III, this essay offers a new perspective on the central claims of Afropessimism by elucidating its implicit theory of language. Putting Wilderson’s “Raw Life and the Ruse of Empathy” into dialogue with the doctrine of linguistic positing elaborated by Paul de Man in his study of the Romantics, we see that Wilderson’s account of anti-Blackness identifies
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The Politics of Speculative Collectivities in the Work of Friedrich Schelling European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Gabriel Trop
ABSTRACT In Friedrich Schelling’s philosophy of nature, the attempt to think the unconditioned absolute of nature performs unconditioning, thereby transforming the present into a field of experimentation. Schelling’s nature-philosophy produces a series of interventions into cultural fields of consistency, drawing on material operations to reconceptualize forms of collective organization. In Schelling’s
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Günderrode’s Earth: On the Political Ecology of “Life” European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Kir Kuiken
ABSTRACT This essay examines the conception of life Karoline von Günderrode develops in her Naturphilosophie. Focusing on “Idea of the Earth,” the essay argues that Günderrode develops a theory of the Earth that understands it as a synthesis of body and spirit akin to a Spinozistic monism. In contrast to Schelling and Hegel, who understood the Earth as the inert backdrop for the emergence of independent
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Romantic Priority Claims, or, Who Has Priority in Deep Time? European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Noah Heringman
ABSTRACT This essay seeks to extend the definition of the term priority claim, arguing that some kinds of priority claims operate across literature and science and may be made on behalf of past actors as well as oneself. My examples are drawn primarily from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century accounts of the place of early or ancestral humans in deep time, particularly those of Thomas Carlyle, John
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Opening the Gatehouse: On and Around “Housing Romanticism” European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Carmen Casaliggi, Francesca Saggini, Maximiliaan van Woudenberg
Published in European Romantic Review (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2023)
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From the Gothic Castle to the Romantic Haunted House: Disbelief, Conversion, Aporia, Abjection European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Jerrold E. Hogle
ABSTRACT We all acknowledge that the haunted house that saw an effulgence in Victorian English literature looks back to Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764), the first text to call itself A Gothic Story in its second edition (1765), and transplants its castle replete with fragmentary ghosts, recalling that these are haunted by Walpole’s prefaces to both editions that urge readers not to believe
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“[H]is Castle was her Proper Habitation”: Homes and Dwelling Places in Sarah Fielding’s The History of the Countess of Dellwyn (1759) European Romantic Review Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Gillian M. Skinner
ABSTRACT Sarah Fielding’s The Countess of Dellwyn tells Charlotte Lucum’s story. Seventeen, beautiful, raised in rural seclusion, her father manipulates her into marrying sixty-five year old Lord Dellwyn, a decrepit, gout-ridden and wealthy peer whose political influence Mr. Lucum hopes to secure in order to revive his own career. Eschewing the potential for the sentimental approach more obvious in