In a close reading of ‘Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey’, my article examines the poem’s musical quality that is central to our understanding of the theme of revisitation and memory. My article posits a significant coherence between readers’ aural involvement with the poem’s formal musicality and the poet-speaker’s own hearing and re-hearing experience within the poem. Situating the performative nature of ‘Tintern Abbey’ in relation to the theory of musical meaning and emotion inaugurated by music psychologist and philosopher, Leonard B. Meyer, my article presents a novel perspective on how the associative process of Wordsworth’s auditory memory shapes the poet’s unique definition and representation of harmony. By reading the poet’s associative auditory experience and the poem’s musical expressiveness as manifestations of the constructive tension between Wordsworth’s tragic consciousness and personal optimism, I argue that ‘Tintern Abbey’ does not create harmony by diminishing and dissipating dissonance, but by sounding and sustaining a range of possibilities and varieties.
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{"title":"Deborah Weiss The Female Philosopher and her Afterlives: Mary Wollstonecraft, the British Novel, and the Transformation of Feminism, 1796–1811","authors":"J. Wharton","doi":"10.3366/rom.2022.0543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0543","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42861380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article presents a detailed new analysis of the conception, composition, publication, and immediate reception of John William Polidori’s influential story, ‘The Vampyre’ (1819), first attributed to Lord Byron. Polidori was instrumental in publishing the tale – and did so with a certain guile as part of a larger literary strategy. Yet he nevertheless fell victim to the duplicity of the publisher Henry Colburn. Polidori was consequently vilified by the Byron circle, which ultimately wrecked his career as a writer. What emerges from this close attention to publication is that the text is unlikely to have been written in 1816 at the Villa Diodati, alongside Frankenstein, but two and a half years later. This therefore challenges its significance as a supposed portrait of Byron, and allows Byron’s own contribution to vampire fiction (‘A Fragment’) to be re-evaluated. The paper also examines the pieces published alongside ‘The Vampyre’ on its first appearance, suggesting the likely authors of these supplementary texts.
本文对约翰·威廉·波利多里（John William Polidori）的影响深远的故事《吸血鬼》（the Vampyre，1819）的概念、构成、出版和直接接受进行了详细的新分析，该故事最初被认为是拜伦勋爵的作品。波利多里在出版这个故事中发挥了重要作用——作为更大的文学策略的一部分，他这样做带有一定的狡诈。然而，他却成了出版商亨利·科尔伯恩口是心非的牺牲品。波利多里因此受到拜伦圈子的诽谤，这最终毁掉了他的作家生涯。这种对出版的密切关注表明，这本书不太可能写于1816年，与弗兰肯斯坦一起在迪奥达蒂别墅，而是两年半后。因此，这挑战了它作为拜伦肖像的意义，并使拜伦自己对吸血鬼小说的贡献（《碎片》）得以重新评估。这篇论文还考察了《吸血鬼》首次亮相时与之一起发表的文章，提出了这些补充文本的可能作者。
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This essay offers a reconsideration of the philosophy of ‘This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison’ (1797). While some previous critical accounts have been dismissive of the utility of applying George Berkeley’s thought to the poem, I argue that the poem draws on the part of Berkeley’s philosophy now known as subjective idealism. In A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710), Berkeley posits that all objects are simply collections of ideas, an idea’s existence consisting in its being perceived (‘ esse is percipi’). I contend that when Coleridge imagines Lamb ‘gazing round […] till all doth seem / Less gross than bodily, a living Thing / That acts upon the mind’, he is depicting Lamb as realizing that the world is composed of ideas that emanate from the powerful mind of God. The poem therefore occupies an important transitional point in Coleridge’s intellectual development when he was, briefly, a Berkeleian idealist.
这篇文章提供了一个重新思考的哲学“这石灰树凉亭我的监狱”(1797)。虽然之前的一些评论对将乔治·伯克利的思想应用于这首诗的效用不屑一顾，但我认为这首诗借鉴了伯克利哲学中现在被称为主观唯心主义的部分。在《关于人类知识原理的论述》(1710年)中，伯克利认为所有的对象都是观念的简单集合，观念的存在在于它被感知(“esse is percepi”)。我认为，当柯勒律治想象兰姆“环顾四周，直到一切看起来/比肉体更粗俗，一个活生生的东西/作用于心灵”时，他是在把兰姆描绘成意识到世界是由来自上帝强大心灵的思想组成的。因此，这首诗在柯勒律治的智力发展中占据了一个重要的过渡点，当时他是一个短暂的伯克利理想主义者。
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This essay argues that the impact of Bewick’s natural histories on nineteenth-century reading culture owed not simply to their engravings but to an innovative manipulation of the affordances of the material form of the book-volume. Governed by a commitment to the printed book as a formative medium in the making of reading relations, Bewick reconfigured the fundamental unit of illustrated natural history, the double-structured unit of description, and altered the dynamics of natural history reading. Repositioning readers so as to bring them into closer proximity both to the book and to the natural world around them, his celebrated bird book brings into view often overlooked linkages between the period’s intensified bookishness, emergent knowledge fields, the reading public, and generic innovation that were to reshape the culture of reading in the nineteenth century.
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{"title":"Richard C. Sha Imagination and Science in Romanticism","authors":"Kurtis Hessel","doi":"10.3366/rom.2022.0542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0542","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47370825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emily Senior The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834: Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity and Nikki Hessell Romantic Literature and the Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations","authors":"D. Coleman","doi":"10.3366/rom.2022.0541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0541","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48804140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay traces the presence of eighteenth-century aesthetics in Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’. It argues that the poem’s use of the term ‘sublime’ is more than just accidental. Rather than merely rehearsing a contemporary aesthetic commonplace, Wordsworth’s references to the sublime are intertextually linked to two eighteenth-century models of the concept, the one outlined in Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), the other developed in Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgement (1790). Proceeding from a delineation of the Burkean and Kantian semantics of sublimity and a reading of their reverberations in Wordsworth’s prose fragment ‘The Sublime and the Beautiful’, the essay suggests that ‘Tintern Abbey’ juxtaposes a sensationist sublime modelled on Burke’s Enquiry with the intellectualist understanding of the term formulated in Kant’s third Critique.
{"title":"‘Far more deeply interfused’: ‘Tintern Abbey’ between Burkean and Kantian Sublimity","authors":"Tim Sommer","doi":"10.3366/rom.2022.0533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0533","url":null,"abstract":"This essay traces the presence of eighteenth-century aesthetics in Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’. It argues that the poem’s use of the term ‘sublime’ is more than just accidental. Rather than merely rehearsing a contemporary aesthetic commonplace, Wordsworth’s references to the sublime are intertextually linked to two eighteenth-century models of the concept, the one outlined in Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), the other developed in Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgement (1790). Proceeding from a delineation of the Burkean and Kantian semantics of sublimity and a reading of their reverberations in Wordsworth’s prose fragment ‘The Sublime and the Beautiful’, the essay suggests that ‘Tintern Abbey’ juxtaposes a sensationist sublime modelled on Burke’s Enquiry with the intellectualist understanding of the term formulated in Kant’s third Critique.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45116502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay looks at Wordsworth’s ‘Laodamía’ as an example of a neoclassical phase that his writings took, beginning in 1814 and continuing for about a decade. I examine Wordsworth’s verse form, an adaptation of the stanza Shakespeare used in ‘Venus and Adonis’, and also look at the ways in which he modifies his classical sources, especially Ovid’s Heroides xiii. The essay then considers the style of the poem, especially how Wordsworth incorporates translations and paraphrases of passages from Virgil’s Aeneid, which is itself one of his classical sources. The essay ends with an analysis of the revisions he made, over several years, to the conclusion of the poem.
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