STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM VOLUME 50 PUBLISHED BY The Graduate School, Boston University 236 Bay State Road, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM Charles Rzepka, Editor Deborah Swedberg, Managing Editor Jonathan Mulrooney, Book Review Editor Published Quarterly In Spring, Sumnier, Fall, Winter. Yearly subscription, $23.00 tor individuals, $60.00 tor institutions. Copyright C 2011 by the Trustees of Boston University. CONTENTS ARTICLES “My Soul in Agony”; Irrationality and Christianity in The Rime of the Aticietit Mariner Christopher stokes 3 “Striking Passages”: Memory and the Romantic Imprint ASHLEY MILLER 29 Wordsworth’s Epitaphic Poetics and the Print Market scott hess 55 Keeping Nature at Bay: John Clare’s Poetrx' of Wonder erica mcalpine 79 Night in Novalis, Schelling, and Hegel Li sui gwee 105 Keeping Time with the Mail-Coach: Anachronism and l)e Quincey’s “The English Mail-Coach” gerald maa i:S5 Emotions in Translation: Helen Maria Williams and “Beauties Peculiar to the English Language” louise joy 145 William Blake and the Hunt Circle wayne c. ripley 173 An Interview with David Wagenknecht Charles j. rzepka and DAVID wagenknecht 221 Reading Keats, Thinking Politics: An Introduction EMILY ROHRBACH AND EMILY SUN 229 The Politics of the Spider JACQUES RANCIERE ::39 How Keats Falls JONATHAN MULROONEY ^51 I Looking at the Stars Forever REI TERADA ^75 The Time of Beauty’ NOEL JACKSON 311 Keats’s Voice MAGDALENA OSTAS 335 Keats for Beginners BRIAN MCGRATH 351 Psyche’s “Whisp’ring Fan” and Keats’s Cenealogy of the Secular John savarese i»9 Attraction and C'ombination: The Science of Metamorphosis in Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam Barbara estermann 413 Charlotte Smith’s Poetry as Sentimental Discourse ERiNy ozdemir 437 “When Despotism kept genius in chains”: Imagining Tasso’s Madness and Imprisonment, 174S-1849 jason Lawrence 475 733 734 CONTENTS Never Cletting Home: The Unfulfilled Promise of Maria Edgeworth’s The Absentee spencer jackson 505 “The Use of Conversation”: William (iodwin’s Conversable World and Romantic Sociability john mee 567 The Lettered Paul: Remnant and Mission in Hannah More, Walter Scott, and Critical Theorv' oustin’ d. stewart 591 Lidy Susan: Jane Austen’s Machiavellian Moment JAMES MULVIHILl 619 Romantic Liberalism and the Juridical Comedy: Robert Page’s Hernisproiif’ anahid j. nersessian 639 Clory and Nothing: Byron Remembers Wordsworth PETER T. MURPHY 661 Becoming Corsairs: Byron, British Property Rights and Orientalist Economics t;ERARD coHEN-VRic;NAun 685 BOOK REVIEWS Andrew Franta’s Honiantkistn and the Rise of the Mass Public, reviewed by Lindsey Eckert 195 Devoney Looser’s Women Writers and Old Hty in Great Britain, ly^o—il^fio, reviewed by Susan Staves 198 Ian Dennis’s Lord Byron and the History of Desire, reviewed by C'aroline Franklin 101 Denise Cigante’s Life: Organic Form and Romanticism, reviewed by Nancy Moore C'lOslee 205 Andrew Piper's Dreaming in Books: The Makinyi of the Bibliofiraphic Imaciination in the Romantic Hty, reviewed by Andrew M. Stauffer 213 Timothy Morton’s The Ecolotiical Thouc’ht, reviewed by Eric Cudal 373 Damian Walforci Davies, ed. Romanticism, History, Historicism: Essays on an Orthodoxy, reviewed by Anahid J. Nersessian 377 Sue Brown’s Joseph Severn, a Life: The Rewards of Friendship, reviewed by Jack Stillinger 381 Clifford Siskin and William Warner’s 'Fins Is Enlii>htenment, reviewed by Alan Bewell, Jon Klancher, Christina Lupton, and Ted Underwood 531 CONTENTS 735 Samuel Baker’s IVritteii on the Water: British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of Culture, reviewed by Evan Gottlieb 543 Michael Ragussis’s Theatrical Sation: Jews and Other Outlandish Eng^lishmen in Georgian Britain, reviewed by Michael Scrivener 548 Andrew Elt'enbein’s Romanticism & The Rise of Ent^lish and Jane Hodson’s Livu^uai^e and Revolution in Burke, H'ollstonecraft, Paine, and Godwin, reviewed by Eugene Green 553 James M. Garrett’s Wordsworth and the ITritin^^ of the \ation, reviewed by Alison Hickey 715 David Collings’s Monstrous Society: Reciprocity, Discipline, and the Political Cncanny, c. 17S0—1S4S, reviewed by James O’Rourke 719 Felicity James’s Charles Dvnb, Coleridf’e and Wordsworth: Reading Friendship in the ijgos, reviewed by Tim Milnes 722 AUTHOR INDEX Bewell, Alan. Review 531 Cohen-Vrignaud, Cierard. Becoming C'orsairs: Byron, British Property Rights and Orientalist Economics 685 Eckert, Lindsay. Review 195 Estennann, Barbara. Attraction and Combination: The Science of Metamorphosis in Shelley’s The Rci'olt of Islam 413 Franklin, Caroline. Review 202 (iidal, Eric. Review 373 Coslee, Nancy Moore. Review 205 Cottlieb, Evan. Review 543 Creen, Eugene. Review 553 Cwee, Li Sui. Night in Novalis, Schelling, and Hegel 105 Hess, Scott. Wordsworth’s Epitaphic Poetics and the Print Market 55 Hickey, Alison. Review 713 Jackson, Noel. The Time of Beauty 311 Jackson, Spencer. Never Cetting Home: The Unfulfilled Promise of Maria Edgeworth’s The Absentee 505 Joy, Louise. Emotions in Translation: Helen Maria Williams and “Beauties Peculiar to the English Language” 145 Klancher. John. Review 531 Lawrence, Jason. “When Despotism kept genius in chains”: Imagining Tasso's Madness and Imprisonment, 1748-1849 475 Lupton, Cdiristina. Review 331 Maa, Cerald. Keeping Time with the Mail-Coach: Anachronism and l)e Quincey’s “The English Mail-CTmli” 123 McAlpine, Erica. Keeping Nature at Bay: John Clare’s Poetry of Wonder 79 McCrath, Brian. Keats for Beginners 331 Mee, John. “The Use of Conversation”: William Ciodwin’s C'onversable World and Romantic Sociability 367 Miller, Ashley. “Striking Passages”: Memory' and the Romantic Imprint 29 737 738 AUTHOR INDEX Milnes, Tim. Review 722 Mulrooney, Jonathan. How Keats Falls 251 Mulvihill, James. Liidy .S’km/i.'Jane Austen’s Machiavellian Moment 619 Murphy, Peter T. Glory' and Nothing: Byron Remembers Wordsworth 661 Nersessian, Anahid J. Romantic Liberalism and the Juridical C'omedy: Robert Bage’s Henmproiti^ 639 -. Review 377 O’Rourke, James. Review 719 Ostas, Magdalena. Keats’s Voice 335 Ozdemir, EriiK;. Charlotte Smith’s Poetry as Sentimental Discourse 437 Ranciere, Jacques. The Politics of the Spider 239 Ripley, Wayne C. William Blake and the Hunt Circle 173 Rohrbach, Emily. Reading Keats, Thinking Politics: An Introduction 229 Rzepka, Charles J. An Interview with David Wagenknecht 221 Savarese, John. Psyche’s “Whisp’ring Fan” and Keats’s Genealogy' of the Secular 389 Scrivener, Michael. Review 548 Stauffer, Andrew M. Review 213 Staves, Susan. Review 198 Stewart, Dustin D. The Lettered Paul: Remnant and Mission in Hannah More, Walter Scott, and Critical Theory 591 Stillinger, Jack. Review 381 Stokes, Christopher. “My Soul in Agony”: Irrationality and Christianity in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 3 Sun, Emily. Reading Keats, Thinking Politics: An Introduction 229 Terada, Rei. Looking at the Stars Forever 275 Underwood, Ted. Review 531 I