Romanticism

Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field

Acknowledgements; 1. Prologomenon to the Study of Romanticism’s Comparative Discourses Larry H. Peer and Diane Long Hoeveler; Part 1: Language and Romantic Discourse Systems; 2. Gothic Opera as Romantic Discourse in Britain and France: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue Diane Long Hoeveler and Sarah Davis Cordova 3. Pursuing the Plerotic Sublime: Romantic Poetry and the Failure of Language Richard A. Nanian 4. Half-Asleep on Thresholds: Fragile Boundaries in Coleridge’s "Fears in Solitude" Onita Vaz 5. Romantic Drama and the Discourse of Criminality Marjean D. Purinton; Part 2: Women Writers and Romantic Constructions of Power; 6. Towards Constructing a "Poetics of Space" for the Sentimental Novel: A Topo-Analysis of Charlotte Smith’s ‘The Old Manor House’ Nancy Metzger 7. The Second Soul-less Sex? Mary Wollstonecraft and the ‘Mahometan’ Carolyn A. Weber 8. Ithuriel’s Spear and Detecting the Counterfeit: Edgeworth’s Miltonic Allusions in ‘Belinda’ Jeffrey Cass 9. Parting Songs: Hemans, Landon, and Barret Browning Rewrite Friederike Brun 10. The Discourse of Religious Bildung in Anne Brontë’s ‘Agnes Grey’ Larry H. Peer; Part 3: Varieties of Revisionist Discourse in Romanticism; 11. Readerly Agency and the Discourse of History in the ‘Antiquary’ Bonnie J. Gunzenhauser 12. Reading Beyond Body, Cane, and Crosier: Talleyrand as Romantic Discourse Rodney Farnsworth 13. Byron and ‘Manfred’: Epistolary Journal into Dramatic Poem D. L. Macdonald 14. The Romantic Artist on the Couch: A Freudian Approach to Wackenroder’s Musician, Berlinger Sonja E. Klocke; Index