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Romanticism in England / Marilyn Butler -- Field, constellation, and aesthetic object / Thomas McFarland -- The I altered / Stuart Curran -- The romantic emergence : multiplication of alternatives and the problem of systematic entrapment / L.J. Swingle -- William Blake. William Blake, illuminated books, and the concept of difference / Joseph Viscomi ; Blake's "London" / Heather Glen ; Desire gratified and ungratified : William Blake and sexuality / Alicia Ostriker -- William Wordsworth. The politics of "Tintern Abbey" / Kenneth R. Johnston ; The economy of lyric : The ruined cottage / Alan Liu ; Figuring class, sex, and gender : what is the subject of Wordsworth's "Gipsies"? / David Simpson ; Bounding lines : The prelude and critical revision / Jonathan Arac ; "Splitting the race of man in twain" : prostitution, personification, and The prelude / Mary Jacobus -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The politics of "Frost at midnight" / Paul Magnuson ; Literary gentlemen and lovely ladies : the debate on the character of Christabel / Karen Swann ; |
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Word and "languageless" meanings : limits of expression in The rime of the ancient mariner / Raimonda Modiano ; Romantic lyric and the problem of belief / Gene W. Ruoff -- Lord Byron. Shipwreck and skepticism : Don Juan canto II / Andrew M. Cooper ; "Their she condition" : cross-dressing and the politics of gender in Don Juan / Susan J. Wolfson ; Setting Byron straight : class, sexuality, and the poet / Jerome Christensen ; The nameless broken dandy and the structure of authorship / Peter J. Manning -- Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley as Athanase / Donald H. Reiman ; Shelley's Mont Blanc : what the mountain said / Frances Ferguson ; Rhyme and the arbitrariness of language / William Keach ; The broken mirror : the identity of the text in Shelley's Triumph of life / Tilottama Rajan ; Shelley's "Defence of poetry" / Karl Kroeber -- John Keats. Romance as wish-fulfillment : The eve of St. Agnes / Stuart M. Sperry ; Keats and the canon / Marjorie Levinson ; Poetics and the politics of reception : Keats's "La belle dame sans merci" / Theresa M. Kelley ; |
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Poem and ideology : a study of Keats's "To autumn" / Geoffrey H. Hartman ; Keats and the historical method in literary criticism / Jerome McGann ; History, existence, and "To autumn" / Paul H. Fry. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| LCCN | 93017229 |
| ISBN | 081352010X (paper) : |
| ISBN | 0813520096 (cloth) : |
