ABSTRACT Maria Edgeworth’s epistolary novel Leonora, published in 1806, was one of her most unpopular works. To this day, it is the most under-examined novel she wrote during her period of peak popularity. Leonora tells a story of adultery that brings the dangers posed by Napoleonic France into the English domestic realm. Lady Olivia, returning to England from France, is invited by Lady Leonora to

ABSTRACT Thomas De Quincey repeatedly showed that he was intrigued by cryptographic communications, and the most important coded writing in his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) concerns the identities of prominent men in contemporary English society who consumed opium habitually. “Applications” was the standard term for identifying the people to whom a text referred, and the key trait of

ABSTRACT The following essay turns to Britain’s imperial past to unravel a knotty link between celebrations of Britain’s civil infrastructure and Romantic authors’ accounts of poetic prowess. Although the relationship between poetics, landscape, and architecture remains a core concern within Romantic literary criticism, little work studies the widely celebrated innovations of this period’s civil engineers

(2021). The Trial of Warren Hastings: Classical Oratory and Reception in Eighteenth-Century England/The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company/Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century/Romantic Literature and the Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations. European Romantic Review: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 65-72.

(2021). Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution/Granville Sharp’s Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre. European Romantic Review: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 72-76.

(2021). Reading by the Light of Common Day: Politics, Society, Romanticism. European Romantic Review: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 76-83.

(2021). The Connected Condition: Romanticism and the Dream of Communication/Counterfactual Romanticism. European Romantic Review: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 84-89.

(2021). The Poetics of Palliation: Romantic Literary Therapy, 1790–1850/Romantic Vacancy: The Poetics of Gender, Affect, and Radical Speculation. European Romantic Review: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 89-94.

(2021). Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet: Form, Place, and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century/The Global Wordsworth: Romanticism Out of Place. European Romantic Review: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 94-98.

(2021). The Coleridge Legacy: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Intellectual Legacy in Britain and America, 1834–1934/The Evangelical Party and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Return to the Church of England. European Romantic Review: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 99-104.

(2021). Coleridge’s Contemplative Philosophy. European Romantic Review: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 104-109.

(2021). Byron in Context/The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley. European Romantic Review: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 109-115.

(2021). Skeletons of Romanticism. European Romantic Review: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 115-121.

(2020). Introduction: Worlds of Maria Edgeworth. European Romantic Review: Vol. 31, Special issue: Worlds of Maria Edgeworth Guest editors: Susan Manly and Joanna Wharton, pp. 655-662.

ABSTRACT Often described as original or inimitable, Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent has a reputation as a one-off experiment, a type of writing not to be attempted again in the author’s own lifetime. This essay reappraises the novel’s reputation, not in order to deny its exceptional status but rather to renew our understanding of Edgeworth’s precocious literary achievements. I analyze Castle Rackrent’s

ABSTRACT The relationship between the Anglo-Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth and the Scottish Enlightenment was established through the pioneering work of the late Marilyn Butler, whose insights have been taken up by many others. This essay draws on unpublished correspondence to broaden our understanding of the connections of Maria Edgeworth and her father with the late Scottish Enlightenment, through

ABSTRACT Maria Edgeworth and Anna Letitia Barbauld first met in 1799, when the latter was already an established writer and Edgeworth was at the beginning of her career. This essay considers the lines of literary and intellectual filiation between Edgeworth and Barbauld as they unfolded over a period of decades, from the 1790s into the 1810s. Both Barbauld and Edgeworth worked in multiple genres. The

ABSTRACT Maria Edgeworth’s response to Robinson Crusoe has been characterized largely negatively, either with reference to the cautions expressed in Practical Education against the spirit of adventure and the encouragement of rash economic speculation, or the critique of primitivism along Crusoesque lines that is found in one of her Moral Tales, “Forester.” This essay revises the dominant view of Edgeworth’s

ABSTRACT Maria Edgeworth’s Patronage is one of a number of novels by women published in 1814 that refer to private theatricals, the most famous of which is Austen’s Mansfield Park. Edgeworth was familiar with the custom of private theatricals in Ireland where her family performed plays and she also attended a performance at the celebrated season of amateur performances in Kilkenny that began in 1802

ABSTRACT Richard Lovell Edgeworth’s plan to establish a permanent network of optical telegraphs across Ireland never materialized. Even so, the telegraph’s short life and literary and material afterlives merit attention, not least by scholars of Maria Edgeworth, whose participation in the scheme is under-acknowledged. This essay sketches the political and economic contexts of the Edgeworth telegraph’s

ABSTRACT This essay examines Maria Edgeworth’s rewriting of masculine political power and visibility, focusing on collaborations with her father and brother on explicitly political projects to show how she gained a political life of her own through the personae and authorial disguises she adopted in these “partnership” works. Far from simply “illustrating and manufacturing” her father’s ideas, as she

ABSTRACT This article investigates the ecological lyrics of Robert Bloomfield and John Clare, suggesting that the elision of adult subject-positions in the latter was influenced by the pioneering poetry of the former. An alternative to the sublime egotism of William Wordsworth, and to the “Greater Romantic Lyric” as defined by twentieth-century criticism, Bloomfield’s and Clare’s eco-poetry is characterized

ABSTRACT Although he was most commonly regarded as a poet of the rural world, Robert Bloomfield's success as a writer is inextricably linked to the urban and artisanal culture that shaped both his sense of self and others’ perception of his work. Initially celebrated as a stand-in for “Giles,” the farmer's boy of his first and most successful publication, Bloomfield's status as a ladies’ shoemaker

ABSTRACT This paper examines the early printings of Bloomfield's works in the USA, of which there were very many. Some tried to duplicate the British illustrations; others did not. Some were illustrated anew by American printmakers. All of the efforts show an effort to domesticate Bloomfield, the working-class poet, to the American landscape, or to an idea of America as a society in which the class

ABSTRACT Even as the recovery of Robert Bloomfield’s career has accelerated over the past decade, a fully-textured understanding of his contemporary influence remains surprisingly elusive. This article offers a new perspective on the scope of that influence by looking at a specific group of contemporary accounts: memorial poems, tribute poems, and elegies. While the 1824 volume The Remains of Robert

ABSTRACT This article argues that Robert Bloomfield’s efforts to free himself from the expectations placed upon him as a poet of the laboring classes must be considered in light of his poetry’s treatment of contemplation. Bloomfield’s contemplative poetics are informed by his concern over the precarity of rural labor in the wake of enclosure and urbanization; thus, the nostalgia for “humble industry”

ABSTRACT In The Country and the City (1973), Raymond Williams dismantled the “pastoral assumption” that the rural laboring class were pictures of health and vitality, uncovering instead the reality of embodied suffering in laboring-class poetry. This essay considers how Robert Bloomfield and John Clare interrogated this “pastoral assumption” of rural health, suggesting that to claim they merely rejected

ABSTRACT For historians, the occupation of “servant” in the eighteenth century has provided an important site to understand evolving concepts of work, class relations, social mobility, family and identity. Servants in Bloomfield’s poetry may be seen as part of a depiction of the realities of rural life, since service was a major sector of the labor market in rural and urban areas. The circumstances

ABSTRACT This article reconsiders Robert Bloomfield as a writer of object poems. It focuses on the year 1806, when Bloomfield's third collection, Wild Flowers, was published. This contains the poem, “My Old Oak Table,” that rivals The Farmer's Boy in its widespread popular association with the poet. 1806 was also the year that James Sargant Storer and John Greig published their Views in Suffolk, Norfolk

offered themselves as avenues to the truth regarding eastern manners and sought to contest stereotypical assumptions of the east, they were nevertheless treated with skepticism by some metropolitan readers, suggesting the mixed reception of such works and the conflicted nature of readerly and public understandings of them. Watt’s elaborately developed thesis, supported throughout by detailed and attentive

Barrell, John. Imagining the King’s Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793–1796. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. Print. Butler, Judith. Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? New York: Verso, 2009. Print. Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998. Print. Leigh, Mike, dir. Peterloo. Film 4 Productions

ABSTRACT Many critics claim that Wordsworth’s The Prelude employs linguistic figurations that ironically undercut his efforts to construct a self-unified, self-present individual. In this article, I argue for a more radical, unstable self-construction, in which Wordsworth articulates a present characterized primarily by lack. Such lack derives from Wordsworth’s sense of a doubled consciousness, of

At face level, these two valuable collections seem very different in their contribution to Keats studies. Keats’s Negative Capability takes as its focus a multifaceted term that has, as many of its...

Danish, German, and Austrian musicians. This chapter complements previous work into Blake’s influence on popular British and American music undertaken elsewhere (e.g., Blake 2.0, ed. Steve Clark, Tristanne Connolly, and Jason Whittaker). Martin Myrone (chapter 26) examines key exhibitions of Blake in England between 1911 and 2013 and credits these exhibitions for exposing European visitors to Blake’s

Romantic-period orientalism has proved to be a fertile area for research in the last few decades. Raymond Schwab’s pioneering 1950 work, The Oriental Renaissance (only translated into English in 19...

The bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre in 2019 saw a surge in interest from historians and critics. In August 2019, as part of a series of commemorative events, a new monument to victims of Peter...

ABSTRACT This essay looks to the new materialisms to reconceive the material objects with which Fanny Price comes into contact, particularly those in the East Room at Mansfield Park. Though Fanny’s status lies somewhere between insider and outsider at Mansfield Park, by virtue of her curation, she and these objects all gradually gain vitality and agency. As Fanny curates first the Bertrams’ belongings

ABSTRACT Critics such as Samuel Johnson viewed heroic couplets as logical, rational, and masculine; others, however, imagined alternative structures in the rhyming couplet, including romance couplets and feminine rhyme, which were derided by their critics as feminine, luxurious, and perverse. Leigh Hunt’s use of feminine rhyme in the early 1800s, as well as critics’ responses to his feminine and open

Bushell, Sally. Text as Process: Creative Composition in Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Dickinson. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2009. Print. Fulford, Tim. The Late Poetry of the Lake Poets: Romanticism Revised. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013. Print. ——. Wordsworth’s Poetry, 1815–1845. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2019. Print. Galperin, William H. Revision and Authority in Wordsworth: The Interpretation

In Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life: Organic Vitality in Germany around 1800, Joan Steigerwald addresses the engagement in and reactions to empirical and theoretical experiments regarding the boundary of life in the Romantic period; in Schelling’s Reception in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Giles Whiteley deals with the varied influences—from apparent to obscure—that Friedrich Schelling’s

ABSTRACT This essay offers a reading of Keats via the twentieth-century Korean poet Kim Yeong-Nang to mark the diacritical difference of English Romanticism as modern and Western. Kim belonged to a coterie of writers working to modernize Korean poetry under the influence of Western literature. Keats’s aestheticism particularly inspired Kim, for whom Romanticism became a site of reflection about the

assumptions about to whom (if anyone) Romanticism belongs. These thinkers helped my students reconceive Romanticism as a reading alongside and with its othered but consequential co-legislators, so that we might trace “the same story” but as “told in a different voice, with different inflections and modes of expression” (Hessell 14). The course was indebted to these and many other scholars, whose work

ABSTRACT Arthur O. Lovejoy is one of several major Romantic critics of rather long ago whose work is well worth revisiting. Lovejoy’s instrumental effort in the founding of the AAUP early in his career is regrettably marked by his role in defending the academic freedom of colleagues who took pronouncedly racist stances. But later in his career, as part of a series of essays from the 1920s to the 1950s

ABSTRACT This introduction outlines some conceptual and historical issues signaled by “Romantic Elements,” the conference theme of the 2019 annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) in Chicago. I begin by identifying some of the distinctive features of this theme in relation to other recent NASSR conferences. I then discuss the tension between this theme’s suggestion

The 2019 NASSR New Books panel celebrated four first monographs published in 2018 and 2019. The papers presented here offer personal and critical reflections on this body of new work as well as wha...

ABSTRACT Romantic memory and hermeneutics may be fruitfully studied alongside conceptualizations of the Haskalah, the account of European Judaism’s embrace of Enlightenment ideals of reason in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which some scholars now see less as a development of the Enlightenment than an engagement of European Romanticism. Jewish literature and philosophy that fall under the

ABSTRACT This essay explores Romantic-era engagements with shorthand transcription as a way of representing the speaking body in text, especially in relation to the poet, radical orator, and teacher of elocution John Thelwall. With reference to projects in phonetic writing undertaken during the period by Benjamin Franklin, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas and Joseph Gurney, and others, I investigate the extent

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interrupted or redirected by “reading-effects” or by attempts to describe and account for the experience of reading? How can we reckon with the increasing use of digital facsimiles in our research to acknowledge and, ideally, help shape the material and technological transformations of our field? Rereading these papers for this issue, I am struck by how hopeful and generous they are about what Romantic

ABSTRACT For the past five years, Romantic Circles and NASSR have sponsored a pedagogy prize, choosing three to four finalists to share their pedagogy through dynamic, short presentations at an open panel during the NASSR conference. All finalists have formerly had their pedagogical contributions published on the “Pedgagogies” section of the Romantic Circles website (http://www.romantic-circles.or

ABSTRACT This paper responds to a question posed by the organizers of the 2019 meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism: how might A. O. Lovejoy’s 1941 essay “The Meaning of Romanticism for the Historian of Ideas” have something new to say now, especially in relation to our current institutional circumstances as Romanticists? I focus on Lovejoy’s treatment of Romantic Eigentümlichkeit

location in southern Florida to have students think through transatlantic Romantic-era “histories of violent dispossession, removal, and decimation; and technocratic pipedreams of unchecked accumulation.” Carmen Faye Mathes, also located in Florida, designed an online course on “the wilds” that used networked Romantic responses to North American wilderness to shape “a new kind of affective relation”

labors, and I want to end my comments by highlighting points made at the beginning of the book. I do not mean its introduction; I mean its acknowledgments. Porter begins by thanking the Internet before explaining, in a confessional tone, that she was not always able to track which digital surrogates from which libraries or which digital platforms she examined and quoted from. This is partly the result

ABSTRACT This paper argues that Mary Shelley’s The Last Man advances a mode of citation that re-writes the past as an always already-extinct anteriority that wastes the present that summons it. The novel’s figuring of citation by way of fossils, unbounded libraries, and fatalistic prophecies indicates Shelley’s and the period’s sense of the archive as a death-driven space for marking history’s unremarked

J. M. Dent and Sons, 1930–34. Print. ——. Rev. of Biographia Literaria, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edinburgh Review 28 (Aug. 1817): 488–515. Print. McGann, Jerome J., and Barry Weller, eds. Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works. By George Gordon Byron. Vol. 7. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1980–93. Print. Mulrooney, Jonathan. Romanticism and Theatrical Experience: Kean, Hazlitt, and Keats in the Age of Theatrical

ABSTRACT This essay considers the conceptual aftermath of concinnitas—roughly, an agreeable interplay of parts—from the point of view of Early German Romanticism. In the Renaissance, concinnitas plays a central role in Leon Battista Alberti’s architectural writings due to its ability to masterfully connect and compose other essential elements, such as number, outline, and position. At that time, concinnitas

I was happy and honored when AnnWierda Rowland invited me to speak about Jonathan Mulrooney’s wonderful Romanticism and Theatrical Experience at the NASSR New Book Panel. I have elsewhere described how Mulrooney’s book provides our best account of the deep connections between the London theaters and an expanding and thoroughly commercialized press; Mulrooney uses a densely contextualized study of the

ABSTRACT Many of Walter Scott’s fictional plots engage with serious crimes like treason and the violent acts involved in dueling. This article examines how Scott’s narrators draw on contemporary conventions for treating persons accused of such crimes in the criminal courtroom, considering especially how the characters and scenes of the Waverley Novels are constructed and described in ways that emphasize

ABSTRACT This essay argues that William Wordsworth and Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) use the lyrical ballad genre to formalize and conceptualize imaginative revenge, a pleasurable form of retaliation particularly suitable for everyday life that involves punishing one’s foe strictly in the mind without resorting to violence or physical action of any kind. Imaginative revenge takes shape in lyrical

ABSTRACT This article argues for the interest of Joseph Priestley’s theory of materialism, particularly as developed in two texts—Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit (1777) and the lengthy set of epistolary exchanges with Richard Price, published in 1778 as A Free Discussion of the Doctrines of Materialism, and Philosophical Necessity. Although these are, in my view, the two most significant