Faflak / Wright Nervous Reactions

Victorian Recollections of Romanticism
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8559-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 295 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Addresses how Victorian receptions of Romanticism and Romantic writers were shaped by notions of "nervousness."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faflak, Joel

Wright, Julia M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Joel Faflak and Julia M. Wright
I. NERVOUS CONTAINMENTS: RECOLLECTION AND INFLUENCE
1. De Quincey Collects Himself
Joel Faflak
2. Mrs. Julian T. Marshall's Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Lisa Vargo
3. Between Action and Inaction: The "Performance" of the Prima Donna in Eliot's Closet Drama
Grace Kehler
4. Nervous ReincarNations: Keats, Scenery, and Mind Cure in Canada during the Post-Confederation Period, with Particular Reference to Archibald Lampman and Related Cases
D. M. R. Bentley
II. A MATTER OF BALANCE: BYRONIC ILLNESS AND VICTORIAN CURE
5. Early Romantic Theorists and The Fate of Transgressive Eloquence: John Stuart Mill's Response to Byron
Timothy J. Wandling
6. Dyspeptic Reactions: Thomas Carlyle and the Byronic Temper
Kristen Guest
7. "Growing Pains": Representing the Romantic in Gaskell's Wives and Daughters
Julia M. Wright
III. HESITATION AND INHERITANCE: THE CASE OF SARA COLERIDGE
8. Snuffing Out an Article: Sara Coleridge and the Early Victorian Reception of Keats
Joanne Wilkes
9. Her Father's "Remains": Sara Coleridge's Edition of Essays on His Own Times
Alan Vardy
10. Opium Addictions and Metaphysicians: Sara Coleridge's Editing of Biographia Literaria
Donelle Ruwe
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joel Faflak is Assistant Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. Julia M. Wright is Canada Research Chair in English at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is the author of Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation, the editor of The Missionary: An Indian Tale, and the coeditor (with Tilottama Rajan) of Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre.