Abstract:Elegy has become a genre more honored in the breach than the observance: its focus on the poet-mourner’s own grief risks seeming histrionic. Or it may seem that the poet consoles herself too quickly, undermining her sincerity and disrespecting the deceased. This article explores a negotiation of the risks attendant upon elegy by examining three poems of William Wordsworth’s late career that commemorate members of his intimate circle, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. These poems are significant examples of Wordsworth’s revision of the elegiac as he had inherited and practiced it because they commemorate and mourn tacitly, founding themselves on a newly dead friend’s old poetic words rather than voicing grief directly. What is memorialized is as much the old poetry as the friend himself.
{"title":"Wordsworth Elegizing the Lyrical Ballad in the 1830s and 1840s","authors":"Tim Fulford","doi":"10.1353/sel.2019.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2019.0035","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Elegy has become a genre more honored in the breach than the observance: its focus on the poet-mourner’s own grief risks seeming histrionic. Or it may seem that the poet consoles herself too quickly, undermining her sincerity and disrespecting the deceased. This article explores a negotiation of the risks attendant upon elegy by examining three poems of William Wordsworth’s late career that commemorate members of his intimate circle, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. These poems are significant examples of Wordsworth’s revision of the elegiac as he had inherited and practiced it because they commemorate and mourn tacitly, founding themselves on a newly dead friend’s old poetic words rather than voicing grief directly. What is memorialized is as much the old poetry as the friend himself.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81072796","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}
Abstract:Fanny Price’s cherished possessions in Mansfield Park’s East Room reflect the three major divisions of the British Museum’s collections in Jane Austen’s lifetime: books, antiquities, and botanical specimens. Like Mansfield Park, with its revenues from Antigua, the British Museum relied on the riches that its founder, Sir Hans Sloane, derived from his slavery-dependent plantations in Jamaica. Fanny’s quotations from William Cowper’s The Task (1785) link Sotherton, Mansfield Park, and the British Museum by illuminating how naval and colonial endeavors underpin the collections, the labor, and the transplantation that sustain stately homes and museums alike.
摘要:大英博物馆曼斯菲尔德公园东馆收藏的芬妮·普莱斯的珍贵藏品，反映了简·奥斯汀生前大英博物馆收藏的三大类:书籍、古物和植物标本。就像曼斯菲尔德公园从安提瓜获得收入一样，大英博物馆也依赖其创始人汉斯·斯隆爵士(Sir Hans Sloane)在牙买加依赖奴隶制的种植园获得的财富。范妮引用了威廉·考伯的《任务》(1785)，将索瑟顿、曼斯菲尔德公园和大英博物馆联系在一起，阐明了海军和殖民时期的努力是如何支撑着豪宅和博物馆的收藏、劳动和移植的。
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Abstract:This article argues that John Keats’s 1817 first volume Poems evinces a commitment to occasionalism that suffuses, and indeed defines, Keats’s work. Rather than simply viewing poems as responses to particular happenings, Keats deploys a mode of figuration in 1817 that, by privileging the notion of instance, displays the limits of poetry’s historically mediating operations. With a consideration of the volume’s arrangement, and close readings of how individual poems bring into relation the occasion of poetic composition and the occasion of the reading act, I argue that 1817 reenvisions poetry’s capacity to teach its readers how to make sense of events, and consequently asks us to rethink still-presiding notions of Keats’s poetic development.
{"title":"Keats’s 1817 Occasions","authors":"Jonathan Mulrooney","doi":"10.1353/sel.2019.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2019.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that John Keats’s 1817 first volume Poems evinces a commitment to occasionalism that suffuses, and indeed defines, Keats’s work. Rather than simply viewing poems as responses to particular happenings, Keats deploys a mode of figuration in 1817 that, by privileging the notion of instance, displays the limits of poetry’s historically mediating operations. With a consideration of the volume’s arrangement, and close readings of how individual poems bring into relation the occasion of poetic composition and the occasion of the reading act, I argue that 1817 reenvisions poetry’s capacity to teach its readers how to make sense of events, and consequently asks us to rethink still-presiding notions of Keats’s poetic development.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75840524","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}
Abstract:This article begins when, in the first installment of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, Lady Dedlock faints at the sight of some handwriting on a legal document: the personal character of her former lover defiantly haunts the law hand he learned as a legal copyist. This tension between personal character and professional handwriting encapsulates midcentury copyright debates in which the moral rights of a personalized model of authorship competed with the trade interests of British publishing. The novel’s representation of this curious handwriting, however, materializes quite literally in the second installment: in the British publication in parts, Bradbury and Evans reproduce this intriguing hand in a letter whose exotic typeface reflects the creative machinery of a booming print industry.
{"title":"Bleak House’s Characters in Hand and Type","authors":"Monica Cohen","doi":"10.1353/sel.2019.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2019.0036","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article begins when, in the first installment of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, Lady Dedlock faints at the sight of some handwriting on a legal document: the personal character of her former lover defiantly haunts the law hand he learned as a legal copyist. This tension between personal character and professional handwriting encapsulates midcentury copyright debates in which the moral rights of a personalized model of authorship competed with the trade interests of British publishing. The novel’s representation of this curious handwriting, however, materializes quite literally in the second installment: in the British publication in parts, Bradbury and Evans reproduce this intriguing hand in a letter whose exotic typeface reflects the creative machinery of a booming print industry.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89420469","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}
Abstract:Considering the impact of Darwinian anthropology on the cultural context surrounding the publication of Anthony Trollope’s Phineas novels, this article focuses on the intersecting issues of Phineas Finn’s and Marie Goesler’s contested ethnicities and ultimate infertility. Such childlessness is explained as a result of Trollope’s tempered liberalism on racial issues, allowing for their interfaith and interracial marriage as well as their individual social success, but not for the multiethnic future for Britain that their hybrid children might represent and enable.
{"title":"Infertility and Darwinian Anthropology in Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Novels","authors":"Lauren A Cameron","doi":"10.1353/sel.2019.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2019.0039","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Considering the impact of Darwinian anthropology on the cultural context surrounding the publication of Anthony Trollope’s Phineas novels, this article focuses on the intersecting issues of Phineas Finn’s and Marie Goesler’s contested ethnicities and ultimate infertility. Such childlessness is explained as a result of Trollope’s tempered liberalism on racial issues, allowing for their interfaith and interracial marriage as well as their individual social success, but not for the multiethnic future for Britain that their hybrid children might represent and enable.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78814732","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}
Abstract:This article examines the strange insistence of nineteenth-century critics on comparing Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh (1817) with exotic food. I trace this poetics of ingestion as something that the text stages. Ingestible things in Lalla Rookh blur the line between its Oriental characters and its Orientalist author, undercutting stable notions of cultural identity. I contextualize this literary strategy, which has been hitherto overlooked, within Britain’s increasing exposure to ingestible foreign substances: the narrative economy of Moore’s tropes mirrors the global circulation of exotic commodities and reproduces their breaching of identity categories. Moore’s self-reflexive representation complicates our understanding of how Orientalism constructs cultural otherness.
{"title":"Thomas Moore’s Confectionary Orientalism","authors":"Yin Yuan","doi":"10.1353/sel.2019.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2019.0034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the strange insistence of nineteenth-century critics on comparing Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh (1817) with exotic food. I trace this poetics of ingestion as something that the text stages. Ingestible things in Lalla Rookh blur the line between its Oriental characters and its Orientalist author, undercutting stable notions of cultural identity. I contextualize this literary strategy, which has been hitherto overlooked, within Britain’s increasing exposure to ingestible foreign substances: the narrative economy of Moore’s tropes mirrors the global circulation of exotic commodities and reproduces their breaching of identity categories. Moore’s self-reflexive representation complicates our understanding of how Orientalism constructs cultural otherness.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81615873","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}
Abstract:An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of the Nineteenth Century and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of works received by SEL for consideration follow.
{"title":"Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century","authors":"P. Gilbert","doi":"10.1353/sel.2019.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2019.0040","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of the Nineteenth Century and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of works received by SEL for consideration follow.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86620339","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}
Abstract:Conscious objects, independent body parts, and ambiguously located feelings recur throughout George Eliot’s Silas Marner. Exploring what it might be like for a body to think, act, and feel of its own accord, George Eliot draws on George Henry Lewes’s theory of double-aspect monism to envision sensation and habit as vehicles for expansion and transformation beyond the boundaries of the body. George Eliot’s exploration of the value of the habitual and mechanical points to her investment in exploring embodied forms of experience and connection rather than interpersonal sympathy.
{"title":"Touch, Consciousness, and Sympathy in Silas Marner","authors":"Hannah Fogarty","doi":"10.1353/sel.2019.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2019.0038","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Conscious objects, independent body parts, and ambiguously located feelings recur throughout George Eliot’s Silas Marner. Exploring what it might be like for a body to think, act, and feel of its own accord, George Eliot draws on George Henry Lewes’s theory of double-aspect monism to envision sensation and habit as vehicles for expansion and transformation beyond the boundaries of the body. George Eliot’s exploration of the value of the habitual and mechanical points to her investment in exploring embodied forms of experience and connection rather than interpersonal sympathy.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86533235","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}
Abstract:Taking as its starting point the correspondence between Arthur Hugh Clough and his American friend Francis James Child, this article examines the significance of Chaucer’s work for Anglo-American literary culture during the period. Child’s scholarship contributes to the reconstruction of a shared Anglo-American cultural identity in the years around the Civil War, while Clough’s Mari Magno uses Chaucerian motifs and techniques to examine the continuities and tensions between old and New England. Both writers emphasize Chaucer’s ability to absorb and transmute foreign influences, and thereby serve as a template for an emerging supranational English literature.
{"title":"Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis James Child, and Mid-Victorian Chaucer","authors":"J. Phelan","doi":"10.1353/sel.2019.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2019.0037","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Taking as its starting point the correspondence between Arthur Hugh Clough and his American friend Francis James Child, this article examines the significance of Chaucer’s work for Anglo-American literary culture during the period. Child’s scholarship contributes to the reconstruction of a shared Anglo-American cultural identity in the years around the Civil War, while Clough’s Mari Magno uses Chaucerian motifs and techniques to examine the continuities and tensions between old and New England. Both writers emphasize Chaucer’s ability to absorb and transmute foreign influences, and thereby serve as a template for an emerging supranational English literature.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89382391","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}
Abstract:The 321 dense folio pages of commentary on Paradise Lost attributed only to "P. H." and published by Jacob Tonson in 1695 initiated founding moves of vernacular English literary scholarship. Their accomplishment has been obscured since their publication by the anonymity of the author, traditionally identified as "Patrick Hume," a Scottish schoolmaster. Using bibliographic and textual evidence, this article contends that "P. H." was Peter Hume, a Nonconformist servant in the Restoration Royal Household from 1668 until his death in 1707, and explores the implications of his identity upon our understanding of this foundational work of English literary scholarship.
{"title":"The First Annotator of Paradise Lost and the Makings of English Literary Criticism","authors":"David A. Harper","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The 321 dense folio pages of commentary on Paradise Lost attributed only to \"P. H.\" and published by Jacob Tonson in 1695 initiated founding moves of vernacular English literary scholarship. Their accomplishment has been obscured since their publication by the anonymity of the author, traditionally identified as \"Patrick Hume,\" a Scottish schoolmaster. Using bibliographic and textual evidence, this article contends that \"P. H.\" was Peter Hume, a Nonconformist servant in the Restoration Royal Household from 1668 until his death in 1707, and explores the implications of his identity upon our understanding of this foundational work of English literary scholarship.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90346518","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}
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