Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2023.2225824
G. Blank
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2023.2225823
Brian B Goldberg
Solkin observes in the closing paragraph of the essay that there is “a misogynistic politics” to repeatedly picturing women’s behinds (122). How do these illustrations, taken as a group, function in our present moment, riven as it is by public debates about gender identity and legislation that contests bodily autonomy on that basis? Art historical scholarship more broadly confronts a related question: what do we do with formally impressive artworks by important artists that graphically objectify women and diagram episodes of sexual violence? The catalogue does not put forward an answer to this, although it acknowledges the question and encourages us to recognize the “considerable historic and aesthetic interest” of such works (136). For some readers, Fuseli’s disregard for artistic norms and his exploration of taboo sexual practices will reveal his prescient genius, his foreshadowing of the transgressive energy of the early twentieth-century avant-gardes. For other readers, it will be difficult to accept that the artistic merit of this group of works can or should be disaggregated from their misogynistic and sexually violent content. In this sense, too, Fuseli remains a consummately contemporary figure: his works continue to exert pressure on the widening fault lines of a society that is perhaps no more stable today than it was in the years during and after the French Revolution.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2023.2225815
Nancy Yousef
tendency to become “the person whose life [he] was reading” after he imitates the Stoic Scaevola’s seeming indifference to physical pain, Risinger’s Byron is a man similarly inhabited by texts—though, crucially, those he has composed himself (124). It proves a clever and powerful response to the outsized figure Byron presents even in literary scholarship and, with Risinger’s profound consideration of the poet’s “linkage of moors, slaves, and Indians under the sign of Stoicism,” a provocative account of the stakes of Stoic philosophy’s racialized aspect before, and in the wake of, Abolition (147). Byron’s Stoic characters thus interrogate social and racial distinctions while simultaneously grappling with modern, cosmopolitan alienation. For bothMathes and Risinger, Romanticism affords a model for staying with the troubling, distracting, and heady affects that resist tidy inclusion in prevailing sociable models. Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion and Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation equally commit to the material force of ideas while fully embracing their shimmering abstract implications, looking to Romantic writers’ desire for the sincere and the true, however indeterminate. Risinger cites a particularly illuminating passage from Keats: “I sometimes feel not the influence of a Passion or Affection during a whole week—and so long [as] this sometimes continues I begin to suspect myself and the genuineness of my feelings at other times” (23). As the literary history of feeling continues to develop, moments like this offer a critical reminder of the tensions, dissonances, and disappointments that invite as they thwart perfect understanding. “The point,” as Mathes declares, “is to give oneself over to the momentum” (185). As vibrant models for sustaining such critical and affective energy, Risinger’s and Mathes’s transformative studies of Romantic feeling promise to provoke further rereadings.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2023.2225820
Luisa Calé
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2023.2225827
Honor Rieley
scholarship that seeks wider appeal but is reluctant to sacrifice the microcosm of facts and context for narrative momentum and psychological depth. Because it stands in passionate opposition to William Sharp’s Life and Letters, however, which deliberately compromised material evidence for the sake of a good yarn, and because it seeks to correct oft-repeated errors in the biographical record, Gallenzi’s research is a glowing testament to ethical scholarship. The book will quickly become an essential source for those future biographers of Keats seeking to strike a balance between reliability and readability.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2023.2225830
J. Goodridge
Sheila M. Kidd in relation to the nineteenth-century diaspora. Chapters on travel writing address both the genre’s construction of Scotland and Scottish travelers abroad, while Thomas C. Richardson discusses the Scottish short story’s influence in North America. Eric Gidal reads a “range of poetic and cultural responses to a globalising economy” and its environmental effects in Burns, Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir and—most intriguingly —James Thomson (260). Beyond the specifics of individual contributions, the consistent questioning of literary chronologies and hierarchies which takes place across these volumes is bound up with the imperative to view Scottish literature in its global context. To return a final time to Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism, that book urges us to
Sheila M.Kidd与19世纪散居国外的人的关系。关于旅行写作的章节既涉及该类型对苏格兰的构建，也涉及苏格兰海外旅行者，而托马斯·C·理查森则讨论了苏格兰短篇小说在北美的影响。Eric Gidal在Burns、Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir和James Thomson（260）中阅读了“对全球化经济的一系列诗意和文化反应”及其对环境的影响。除了个人贡献的具体内容外，这些卷中对文学年表和等级制度的持续质疑与在全球背景下看待苏格兰文学的必要性息息相关。最后一次回到苏格兰和浪漫主义的边界，这本书敦促我们
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2023.2225456
Caroline 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. Smith offers a figuration of botanical knowledge that neither relies on the destruction of that which she represents nor on removing the plants from their environments into an herbarium with often very little connection to its environment. Materially and poetically reconfiguring the natural world according to the herbarium’s principles of atomicity and entanglement, Smith poetry’s power lies in expanding the herbarium. In her literary herbarium, agency is not only found in the human world; instead, the nonhuman world proves to be just as agential as the human one. Here, botany does not merely serve as a steppingstone to the domination and exploitation of the natural world. Smith’s poetry offers a glimpse of the possibility of botany as a non-hierarchical and non-exploitative study of the world.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2023.2225443
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 between materiality and the metaphysics and phenomenology of translucence. Towards this end, the article develops a material history of translucence, focusing on Coleridge’s early notebook descriptions of weather phenomena, light, and water, and his representations of light in his poem, “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison.”
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2023.2225414
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 ideas help him to challenge some forms of misogynistic, militaristic politics that writers of Blake's day were supporting with appeals to the classical and Miltonic epic traditions. While many Romantic-era writers call upon these traditions to endorse patriarchal oppression, Blake's deployment of both Swedenborgian concepts and epic tropes allows him to launch a trenchant critique of empire. He revises Swedenborg to extend Milton's critique of classical epic and, through it, the politics advocated by many of the period's epic writings. He does so in part by reworking Swedenborg's doctrines into a vision of eroticism that explodes the hierarchical, misogynistic, chaste conception of sexuality underlying the warrior ethos promoted by the worst aspects of the Romantic-era epic revival.
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