Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of RomanticismJoel Faflak, Julia M. Wright SUNY Press, 2004 M01 19 - 287 páginas Nervous Reactions considers Victorian responses to Romanticism, particularly the way in which the Romantic period was frequently constructed in Victorian-era texts as a time of nervous or excitable authors (and readers) at odds with Victorian values of self-restraint, moderation, and stolidity. Represented in various ways--as a threat to social order, as a desirable freedom of feeling, as a pathological weakness that must be cured--this nervousness, both about and of the Romantics, is an important though as yet unaddressed concern in Victorian responses to Romantic texts. By attending to this nervousness, the essays in this volume offer a new consideration not only of the relationship between the Victorian and Romantic periods, but also of the ways in which our own responses to Romanticism have been mediated by this Victorian attention to Romantic excitability. Considering editions and biographies as well as literary and critical responses to Romantic writers, the volume addresses a variety of discursive modes and genres, and brings to light a number of authors not normally included in the longstanding category of "Victorian Romanticism" on the Romantic side, not just Wordsworth, Keats, and P. B. Shelley but also Byron, S. T. Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, Mary Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft; and on the Victorian side, not just Thomas Carlyle and the Brownings but also Sara Coleridge, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Archibald Lampman, and J. S. Mill. Contributors include D. M. R. Bentley, Kristen Guest, Joel Faflak, Grace Kehler, Donelle Ruwe, Alan Vardy, Lisa Vargo, Timothy J. Wandling, Joanne Wilkes, and Julia M. Wright. |
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De Quincey Collects Himself | 23 |
Mrs Julian T Marshalls Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | 47 |
Between Action and Inaction The Performance of the Prima Donna in Eliots Closet Drama | 65 |
Nervous ReincarNations Keats Scenery and Mind Cure in Canada during the PostConfederation Period with Particular Reference to Archibald Lamp... | 93 |
A Matter of Balance Byronic Illness and Victorian Cure | 121 |
Early Romantic Theorists and The Fate of Transgressive Eloquence John Stuart Mills Response to Byron | 123 |
Dyspeptic Reactions Thomas Carlyle and the Byronic Temper | 141 |
Growing Pains Representing the Romantic in Gaskells Wives and Daughters | 163 |
Hesitation and Inheritance The Case of Sara Coleridge | 187 |
Snuffing Out an Article Sara Coleridge and the Early Victorian Reception of Keats | 189 |
Her Fathers Remains Sara Coleridges Edition of Essays on His Own Times | 207 |
Opium Addictions and MetaPhysicians Sara Coleridges Editing of Biographia Literaria | 229 |
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Contributors | 275 |
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