Romantic Dialectics: Culture, Gender, Theater

Serena Baiesi is associate professor of English Literature at the University of Bologna. Her research interests include Romantic poetry, gothic novel, Jane Austen, and slavery literature. Stuart Curran is Vartan Gregorian Emeritus Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, and author of numerous works on P.B. Shelley and in the field of British Romanticism. He served as president of the Keats-Shelley Association of America 2007-16.

lt;p>Keir Elam: Foreword: On the Dialectics of Literature and Life - Serena Baiesi/Stuart Curran: Introduction - Part I: Cultural Dialectics - Stuart Curran: Byron and Shelley: Becoming Italian - Jeffrey N. Cox: «For I will Teach [. . .] the Stones / To Rise against Earth's Tyrants»: Moving Beyond War in Byron's «War Cantos» - Peter Vassallo: Romantic Fabrications of Napoleon - Elena Spandri: Between Culture Shock and Franciscan Ecology: Wordsworth's Last Encounter with Italy - Nora Crook: «That Crabbed German»: Mary Shelley's Germanizing - Greg Kucich: The Place of Keats's Endymion in Times of Peril and among «Blear-Eyed Nations» - Part II: Dialectics of Gender - Gioia Angeletti: Outside the Love of Men: The Ladies of Llangollen, Anna Seward and Female Friendship - Carlotta Farese: Reading for Agency: The Literary Bildung of Fanny Price - Serena Baiesi: «I Will Tell my Story, and my Reader Shall Judge for Me»: Mary Shelley's Stories for The Keepsake - Part III: Dialectical Theatrical Modes - Catherine Burroughs: Women and Closet Drama - Michael Gamer: «And the Explosion Immediately Takes Place»: Romantic Tragedy and the End(s) of Melodrama - Franca Dellarosa: Translating Spaces: The Case of Paul and Virginia - Diego Saglia: Staging Strangeness in Charles Robert Maturin's Bertram - Notes on Contributors - Index