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Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Romanticism (August
2008)
This volume begins to unpack the relationships among the three terms of its title. Despite its air of neutrality, "secularism" is increasingly understood to have its own interests, particularly when it comes to defining and managing the "religious." And, thanks to its constitutive relationship to modernity, romanticism is invested in secularism, not least in those moments typically coded as "spiritual" or "religious." Cosmopolitanism, too, bears a vexed relationship to a period typically associated with nationalism. Finally, secularism and cosmopolitanism are themselves related in surprising ways, both historically and conceptually. Do they pursue the same project? Do they diverge? How and when? And how does romantic writing figure such alignments? These are the questions motivating the three essays in this volume.
This volume is edited and introduced by Colin Jager,
with essays by Mark Canuel, Colin Jager, Paul Hamilton, and an afterword by Bruce Robbins. |
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Utopianism and Joanna Baillie (July
2008)
This volume contextualizes work by and work about Joanna Baillie with respect to revisionist thinking about utopianism. Since utopianism has become a positively valued concept within sociological, legal, and other fields, its implications for an understanding of Baillie's approach to social change/social problems, as well as for an understanding of scholarship recovering Baillie for contemporary purposes, deserve to be explored.
This volume is edited and introduced by Regina Hewitt,
with essays by Thomas McLean, Robert C. Hale, William D.Brewer, Marjean D. Purinton, and Regina Hewitt. |
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Philosophy and Culture (June
2008)
This volume addresses a perceived
opposition between philosophy and critical theory on the one hand, and culture
or cultural studies on the other. It seeks to revalidate critical work that
develops a philosophy of culture and a culturally historical philosophy.
This volume is edited and introduced by Rei
Terada,
with essays by Manu
Chander, Ted Underwood, Thomas
Pfau, J.
Hillis Miller, and Daniel
Tiffany. |
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"Soundings of Things Done":
The Poetry and Poetics of Sound in the Romantic Ear and Era (April 2008)
This forum attends to the sounding sense of Romantic
poetry, both thematically (a poetics of sound) and sensually/phonically (the
poetry of sound and the sound of poetry). This volume is edited and introduced by Susan J. Wolfson, with essays
by Susan J. Wolfson, James
Chandler, Garrett Stewart,
and Adam Potkay. |
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Romanticism
and the New Deleuze (January
2008)
This
volume summarizes and utilizes
the arc of Gilles Deleuze's
work while turning it towards
Romantic writers, providing
a
thoughtful intervention
in Romantic criticism, opening
up new terrain on travel,
the sublime, and the revolutionary.
This volume is edited
by Ron
Broglio, with an introduction
by Robert
Mitchell and Ron Broglio, and essays
by Robert
Mitchell, Ron
Broglio, David
Baulch, and David
Collings. |
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Archived Volumes |
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Romanticism
and Buddhism (February
2007)
This
volume explores intersections
between Western thinking
and Eastern religion.
Each essay re-examines
Romantic-era work in
light of the "guides
and basic principles" of
Buddhist thought. Edited
and introduction by Mark
Lussier, essays
by Louise
Economides, Timothy
Morton, John
Rudy, Dennis
McCort,
and a poem by Norman
Dubie. |
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Romantic
Gastronomies (January
2007)
This
volume suggests the myriad ways
in which the surprisingly neglected
(and critically undigested)
Romantic culture of gastronomy
influenced artistic production
of nineteenth-century Britain
and France—at
the same time as it raised new
philosophical challenges. Edited
and introduction by Denise
Gigante,
this volume includes essays
by Carolyn
Korsmeyer, Joshua
Wilner,
and Michael
Garval. |
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Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic Romanticism (November 2006)
The essays in this volume move beyond the notation of literary influence or ideological parallelism to perform a functional taxonomy of transatlantic Romanticism, helping to explain why the movement developed at different times and rates in different places around the Atlantic. Edited by Lance Newman, Joel Pace and Chris Koenig-Woodyard, this volume includes essays by Joselyn Almeida, Jen Camden, Andre Cardoso, James Crane, Sarah Ferguson-Wagstaffe, Scott Harshbarger, Rebecca Cole Heinowitz, Sohui Lee, and Cree LeFavour. |
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Geoffrey Hartman and Harold Bloom: Two Interviews
(July 2006)
This volume includes a pair of wide-ranging conversations, one between Geoffrey Hartman and Marc Redfield and the other between Harold Bloom and Laura Quinney. While differing in tone, setting, and topics, both conversations reaffirm the centrality of Hartman and Bloom in any history of the study of Romanticism for the last half century. Edited by Orrin Wang. |
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Romanticism and Patriotism: Nation, Empire, Bodies, Rhetoric (May 2006)
The current cretinization of public, political language is often viewed as synonomous with the discourse of patriotism. This volume begins to demonstrate how complex the vocabulary of patriotism actually is, by investigating its diverse use during the Romantic period. Edited by Orrin Wang, essays by Francesco Crocco, Matthew Borushko, Daniel O'Quinn, Andrew Lincoln, Noah Heringman, and Jan Mieszkowski. |
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Historicizing
Romantic Sexuality (Jan.
2006)
This
volume looks at the protean
constructions of sexuality
in the Romantic period and
in current Romanticist
scholarship. Edited,
introduced
by Richard
C.
Sha,
essays by Richard
C. Sha, David
M. Halperin,
Jonathan
Loesberg, Elizabeth
Fay, Jillian
Heydt-Stevenson,
Susan
S. Lanser, Bradford
K. Mudge,
Daniel
O'Quinn and Andrew
Elfenbein. |
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Romantic
Technologies: Visuality
in the Romantic Era (Dec.
2005)
The
essays in this volume
explores the relationship
between Romantic Gothicism
and the rise of the
visual technologies
centred on commercial
exploitation of the
magic lantern. Edited
and introduced by Robert
Miles ,
with essays by Fred
Botting, Diane
Long Hoeveler, Sophie
Thomas, Dale
Townshend,
and Angela
Wright. |
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Romanticism
and Opera (May
2005)
This
collection of essays
considers the importance
of opera as both an
essential ritual of
court culture and
an innovative art
form with a considerable
impact on period literature. Edited
by Gillen
D'Arcy Wood,
with essays by Christina
Fuhrmann, Diane
Long Hoeveler, J.
Jennifer Jones , Jessica
K. Quillin,
and Anne
Williams. |
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Legacies
of Paul de Man (May
2005)
The
essays in this volume
evaluate the legacies
of Paul de Man, who
continues symbolically
to embody an aspect
of "theory" that
resists easy routinization. Edited
by Marc
Redfield,
with essays by Ian
Balfour, Cynthia
Chase, Sara
Guyer, Jan
Mieszkowski, Arkady
Plotnitsky, Marc
Redfield, Rei
Terada,
and Andrzej
Warminski. |
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Romanticism
and the Insistence of the
Aesthetic (Feb.
2005)
This
volume addresses the question
of "Romanticism
and the Insistence of the Aesthetic" by
considering Romantic versions
of the relationship between the
aesthetic and power, whether as
a form of violence or a force
of possibility. Edited
by Forest
Pyle,
with essays by Ian
Balfour, David
Ferris, Karen
Swann and
a response by Marc
Redfield. |
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Digital Designs
on Blake (Jan.
2005)
This
volume brings together recent
and more seasoned Blake scholars
to explore how new media provides
another mode of inquiry into Blake's
complex verbal and visual texts. Edited
by Ron
Broglio,
with essays by David
M. Baulch, Marcel
O'Gorman, Nelson
Hilton, Joseph
Byrne, Adam
Komisaruk, Steven
Guynup,
and Fred
Yee. |
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Romantic
Libraries (Feb.
2004)
A
look at book-culture and bibliomania
in early 19th-century England,
as seen through emerging genres
such as the familiar essay, and
the formation of private libraries
as personal sites of collection
and memory. Edited
by Ina
Ferris,
with essays by H.
J. Jackson, Ina
Ferris and Deidre
Lynch. |
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"Ode
on a Grecian Urn":
Hypercanonicity & Pedagogy (Oct.
2003)
Edited
by James
O'Rourke,
with essays by David
Collings, Helen
Regueiro Elam, Spencer
Hall, David
P. Haney, John
Kandl, Bridget
Keegan, Brennan
O'Donnell, Jeffrey
C. Robinson, Jack
Stillinger, Heidi
Thomson,
and Susan
J. Wolfson. |
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Romanticism & Contemporary Poetry & Poetics (July 2003)
Looks
at
the
influence
of
Romanticism
on
poets
writing
today,
presenting
three
divergent
analyses
of
five
contemporary
poets.
Includes
contributions
from
both
Romanticists
and
critics
of
modern
(and
postmodern)
poetry. Edited
by Lisa
M.
Steinman,
with
essays
by Charles
Altieri, Robert
Kaufman,
and Ellen
Keck
Stauder. |
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Frankenstein's
Dream (June 2003)
Essays
focusing in on two pivotal dreams
of Mary Shelley's protagonist,
Victor Frankenstein, in her novel Frankenstein,
offering various interpretations,
found in the book and its many
adaptations, including film. Edited
by Jerrold
E. Hogle,
with essays by Anne
Williams, Matthew
VanWinkle, John
Rieder and Marc
Redfield. |
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Once,
Only Imagined (March 2003)
An
electronic version of an interview
with Morris
Eaves, Robert
Essick,
and Joseph
Viscomi,
editors of The
Blake Archive,
on the 10th anniversary of its
founding. With topics of conversation
running the gamut from the winsome
(Blake kitsch) to the peculiar
(hypothetical extensions of Blake's
canon). Edited
by Kari
Kraus. |
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Obi
(Aug.
2002)
A
volume devoted to the Romantic-era
play Obi;
or, Three-Finger'd Jack,
about escaped slave/rebel Jack
Mansong. Includes text of both
pantomime and melodrama, and video
from a modern production. Edited
by Charles
Rzepka,
with essays by Peter
Buckley, Jeffrey
N. Cox, Jerrold
E. Hogle, Robert
Hoskins, Debbie
Lee,
and Charles
Rzepka. |
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Finding
Romantic Commonplaces: An Interview with Jerome Christensen (June 2002)
An
interview with noted Romanticist
Jerome Christensen, presented
in the form of a multi-linked
site organized around a constellation
of "common
topics" found
in Christensen's work. Offers
a revised transcript, and audio
files. Edited
by Steven Newman. |
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Romanticism
& Contemporary Culture (February 2002)
Essays
that examine teaching Romanticism
in the context of popular culture,
and a debate entitled "Presentism
versus Archivalism." Edited
by Laura Mandell and Michael Eberle-Sinatra,
essays by Phillip
Barrish, Ron
Broglio, Jay
Clayton, Jon
Klancher, Jerome
McGann, David
Simpson, Atara
Stein, Gregory
Tomso, Ted
Underwood. |
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Romanticism
& Ecology (Nov.
2001)
A
look at the role of the natural
world in the works of Romantic
writers in the wake of the French
Revolution, positing the proto-ecological
argument that all living beings
are full participants in the progress
of liberty. Edited
by James
McKusick,
essays by Kurt
Fosso, Timothy
Fulford, Kevin
Hutchings, Timothy
Morton, Ashton
Nichols,
and William
Stroup. |
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Reading
Shelley's Interventionist Poetry, 1819-1820 (May 2001)
A
reading of Shelley's interventionist
poetry of 1819-20—including
his satires The
Mask of Anarchy and Swellfoot
the Tyrant—as
provocations, dialectical interventions,
and pretexts for speculation. Edited
by Michael
Scrivener,
with essays by Samuel
Gladden, Robert
Kaufman,
and Mark
Kipperman,
with responses by Steven E. Jones. |
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Romanticism
& Complexity (March 2001)
An
investigation into the scientific
thought of Romantic writers, looking
at the Romantics’ conflicted
attitudes toward Enlightenment-based
science, and offering speculative
explorations of their work in
the framework of more recent scientific
developments. Edited
by Hugh
Roberts, essays
by Arkady
Plotnitsky and R.
Paul Yoder. |
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The
Containment & Re-deployment
of English India (Nov.
2000)
Essays
devoted to English
India as it appears
in Romantic studies,
and the institutional
effects of colonial
discourse. Edited
by Daniel
J. O'Quinn, essays
by Siraj
Ahmed, L.
M. Findlay, Daniel
J. O'Quinn, Rita
Raley, Susan
B. Taylor,
and Kate
Teltscher. |
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Schelling
and Romanticism (June 2000)
An
examination of the works of Friedrich
Schelling, one of the three major
figures in the philosophical and
aesthetic history of the Romantic
period, and important influence
on Coleridge. This volume looks
particularly at Schelling's writings
on freedom. Edited
by David
S. Ferris,
essays by Jan
Mieszkowski, David
S. Ferris,
and David
L. Clark. |
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Re-reading
Box Hill: Reading the Practice of Reading Everyday Life (April 2000)
Readings
of Jane Austen and Romanticism,
and their influence on each other. Edited
by William
Galperin, essays
by George
Levine, Michael
Gamer, Deidre
Lynch, Susan
J. Wolfson, Adam
Potkay,
and William
Walling. |
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"The
Honourable Characteristic of Poetry": Two Hundred Years of Lyrical Ballads
(November 1999)
A
retrospective volume looking at
how the poems of the Lyrical
Ballads continue
to be important and relevant,
especially with respect to American
writers and readers. Edited
by Marcy
L. Tanter,
essays by Joel
Pace, Charles
Rzepka,
and Elizabeth
Fay. |
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Irony
and Clerisy (Aug.
1999)
Both "irony" and "clerisy" emerge
into peculiar discursive
prominence during the
Romantic era. This
volume shows how these
two seemingly heterogeneous
strands of Romantic
discourse come to be
linked, and play upon
each other. Edited
by Deborah
Elise White, with
essays by Adam
Carter, Charles
Mahoney, Linda
Brigham,
and Forest
Pyle. |
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Romanticism & Philosophy in an Historical Age
(August
1999)
A
debate on the question of aesthetics
and the uses of pleasure in
Romanticism, looking at the
role of affective experience
in aesthetic judgment and the
production of meaning, as played
out in the interior and social
worlds. Edited
by Karen
Weisman,
with essays and responses by Theresa
Kelley and Thomas
Pfau. |
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Romanticism & the Law (March 1999)
A
study of Romantic legal discourse—especially
the evolving concepts of intellectual
property, blasphemy, sedition,
and treason—as
a history of textual hermeneutics,
a trajectory of misinterpretation
and reinterpretation. Edited
by Michael
Macovski,
with essays by Margaret
Russett, Susan
Eilenberg, Michael
Scrivener,
and Kathryn
Temple. |
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Romantic Passions (April 1998)
Looks
at Romantic women writers'
attitudes towards love, particularly
as impacted by gender and
tradition-inscribed relations,
countering the transcendence
of love implicit in theories
of the sublime. Edited
by Elizabeth
Fay,
essays by Adela
Pinch, Jeffrey
Robinson, Charles
Rzepka, Andrew
M. Stauffer, & Nanora
Sweet. |
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The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic
Dinosaur (August 1997)
An
interview of W. J. T. Mitchell
with Orrin N. C. Wang. Includes
Mitchell's unconventional answers/narrative—his "Romantic
Education"—as
well as an equally unconventional
gloss by Wang, entitled "The
Sorrows of Young Wieboldt." |
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Early Shelley: Vulgarisms, Politics, & Fractals
(August 1997)
Re-assesses
Shelley's early verse, showing
that, far from being mere juvenilia,
it offers an aesthetics of excess
and a politics of resistance that
provides access to the early Regency
culture, as well as to Shelley's
art and thought in general. Edited
by Neil
Fraistat,
with essays by Linda
Brigham, William
Keach, Timothy
Morton,
and Donald
H. Reiman. |
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Romanticism and Conspiracy (August 1997)
Focuses
on the conspiracy narratives
prevalent in England in the
1790s, centered on the English
Jacobins and their opponents,
and carried forth into the
discourse of the second generation
of Romanticism. Edited
by Orrin
N. C. Wang,
with essays by Kevin
Gilmartin, Charles
Mahoney, Thomas
Pfau,
and Kim
Wheatley. |
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