Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/srm.2023.a909934
Wassim R. Rustom
Abstract: Utility, bugbear of poetics and aesthetics since at least the time of the Romantics, appears as a fraught but constitutive question in modern literature's self-understanding. This essay considers a defining engagement with the question of the useful at a formative moment of modern poetics, arguing that reflection on means-ends relations shapes a form of thought in Wordsworth's lyric poetry. The anti-utilitarian impetus of "The Old Cumberland Beggar" intimates a causal poetics of thought that goes on to stamp the seminal "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" and define the project of The Prelude .
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/srm.2023.a909932
Essaka Joshua
Abstract: Critical discussions of Romantic conversational practices have focused on concepts of sentiment, freedom, and the flow or ease of exchange of spoken words, and their literary representation. It has not always been apparent, however, that 'frictionless' conversation requires of the participants certain physical and sensory competencies or abilities. Disabilities that affect communication reveal much about politeness, social control, accessibility, and equity. This article offers a reading of John Poole's one act farce, Deaf as a Post (1823), as a comic play about conversational friction.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/srm.2023.a909935
Marsha Keith Schuchard
Abstract: Documents discovered in Moravian Archives reveal that William Blake's mother and her first husband were members of a controversial, heterodox Moravian church in 1749–52. She and her second husband, James Blake, attended Moravian services before moving on to Swedenborgianism. The discovery provides a new historical context for William's Songs of Innocence and Experience (1789–94). Count Zinzendorf and Emanuel Swedenborg presented radically new ideas for the education of "infants" (ages one to seven). Though political repression frustrated their early agenda, it was later fulfilled by Swedenborgian educators.
{"title":"Text Books for Innocence: Moravian-Swedenborgian Infant Education and William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience","authors":"Marsha Keith Schuchard","doi":"10.1353/srm.2023.a909935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2023.a909935","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Documents discovered in Moravian Archives reveal that William Blake's mother and her first husband were members of a controversial, heterodox Moravian church in 1749–52. She and her second husband, James Blake, attended Moravian services before moving on to Swedenborgianism. The discovery provides a new historical context for William's Songs of Innocence and Experience (1789–94). Count Zinzendorf and Emanuel Swedenborg presented radically new ideas for the education of \"infants\" (ages one to seven). Though political repression frustrated their early agenda, it was later fulfilled by Swedenborgian educators.","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/srm.2023.a909929
{"title":"Carrying All Before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689–1800 by Chelsea Phillips (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/srm.2023.a909929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2023.a909929","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/srm.2023.a909931
{"title":"Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848 by Clare Pettitt (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/srm.2023.a909931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2023.a909931","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/srm.2023.a909930
{"title":"England Re-Oriented: How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750–1857 by Humberto Garcia (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/srm.2023.a909930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2023.a909930","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/srm.2023.a909933
Gerard Lee McKeever
Abstract: This article analyzes a previously unstudied set of borrowing records covering 1828–36 from the Wigtown Subscription Library in Galloway, southwest Scotland. It describes the context of the library and key features of this borrowing data, including the finding that forty-one Walter Scott titles accounted for 19 percent of all borrowing in this period. Galloway famously provided the outland setting of Scott's Guy Mannering (1815); this borrowing data enables an alternative view of the region and his influence on it. The article argues that readers at the Wigtown library were encountering an expansive network of "thickly" described localities through Scott.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/srm.2023.a909936
{"title":"Notes on Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/srm.2023.a909936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2023.a909936","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/srm.2023.a903041
Porscha Fermanis
{"title":"Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry by Nikki Hessell (review)","authors":"Porscha Fermanis","doi":"10.1353/srm.2023.a903041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2023.a903041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":"62 1","pages":"320 - 325"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47614171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/srm.2023.a903043
{"title":"Notes on Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/srm.2023.a903043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2023.a903043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136350427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}