At the Limits of Romanticism

by Favret, Mary A.; Watson, Nicola J.

• ISBN13: 9780253208538
• ISBN10: 025320853X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-04-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Romanticism has traditionally excluded or undervalued the work of popular women writers, narrative poetry, the novel, most of contemporary journalism, and the decorative arts. As a result, issues of the marketplace, class, and competing cultural discourses have been easier to ignore. The essays in this collection question romanticism's suppression of the feminine, the material, and the collective, and its opposition to readings centering on these concerns. In their inquiries, the contributors consider authors as diverse as Felicia Hemans, Ann Yearsley, Byron, William and Sarah Hazlitt, Walter Scott, Samuel Rogers, and Robert Southey. Here a number of influential critics--including Kurt Heinzelman, Sonia Hofkosh, Anne Janowitz, Marjorie Levinson, and Peter T. Murphy--map these previously neglected territories, articulating a series of surprising and refreshing arguments that redefine the borders of romanticism.

Author Biography

MARY A. FAVRET teaches English and Women's Studies at Indiana University and is author of Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters. NICOLA J. WATSON teaches English at Northwestern University and is author of Revolution and the Form of the Novel 1790--1825: Intercepted Letters, Interrupted Seductions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Wordsworth and Romanticism in the Academy	p. 21
Climbing Parnassus, and Falling Off	p. 40
A Home for Art: Painting, Poetry, and Domestic Interiors	p. 59
"A Voice from Across the Sea": Communitarianism at the Limits of Romanticism	p. 83
The Uneducated Imagination: Romantic Representations of Labor	p. 101
Sexual Politics and Literary History: William Hazlitt's Keswick Escapade and Sarah Hazlitt's Journal	p. 125
"Why Should I Wish for Words?": Literacy, Articulation, and the Borders of Literary Culture	p. 143
History, Imperialism, and the Aesthetics of the Beautiful: Hemans and the Post-Napoleonic Moment	p. 170
Trans-figuring Byronic Identity	p. 185
Butchering James Hogg: Romantic Identity in the Magazine Market	p. 207
"An Embarrassing Subject": Use Value and Exchange Value in Early Gothic Characterization	p. 225
"Liquidating the Sublime": Gossip in Scott's Novels	p. 246
Romantic Criticism: The State of the Art	p. 269
Notes on Contributors	p. 283
Index	p. 285
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