Romantic Writers Research Articles

Book Review - Paul Hamilton (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 is an open-access journal committed to foregrounding innovative Romantic-studies research into bibliography, book history, intertextuality and textual studies.We publish material in a number of formats: peer-reviewed articles, reports on individual/collaborative research projects, bibliographical checklists and biographical profiles of overlooked Romantic writers. Romantic Textualities also carries book reviews and a regularly updated blog and Twitter feed. The journal was relaunched in 2017.

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Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 is an open-access journal committed to foregrounding innovative Romantic-studies research into bibliography, book history, intertextuality and textual studies.We publish material in a number of formats: peer-reviewed articles, reports on individual/collaborative research projects, bibliographical checklists and biographical profiles of overlooked Romantic writers. Romantic Textualities also carries book reviews and a regularly updated blog and Twitter feed. The journal was relaunched in 2017.

William Lane and the Minerva Press in the Review Periodical, 1790–1820

Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 is an open-access journal committed to foregrounding innovative Romantic-studies research into bibliography, book history, intertextuality and textual studies.We publish material in a number of formats: peer-reviewed articles, reports on individual/collaborative research projects, bibliographical checklists and biographical profiles of overlooked Romantic writers. Romantic Textualities also carries book reviews and a regularly updated blog and Twitter feed. The journal was relaunched in 2017.

Imitation, Intertextuality and the Minerva Press Novel

Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 is an open-access journal committed to foregrounding innovative Romantic-studies research into bibliography, book history, intertextuality and textual studies.We publish material in a number of formats: peer-reviewed articles, reports on individual/collaborative research projects, bibliographical checklists and biographical profiles of overlooked Romantic writers. Romantic Textualities also carries book reviews and a regularly updated blog and Twitter feed. The journal was relaunched in 2017.

Book Review - Andrew O. Winckles and Angela Rehbein (eds), Women’s Literary Networks and Romanticism: ‘A Tribe of Authoresses’ (Liverpool University Press, 2017)

Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 is an open-access journal committed to foregrounding innovative Romantic-studies research into bibliography, book history, intertextuality and textual studies.We publish material in a number of formats: peer-reviewed articles, reports on individual/collaborative research projects, bibliographical checklists and biographical profiles of overlooked Romantic writers. Romantic Textualities also carries book reviews and a regularly updated blog and Twitter feed. The journal was relaunched in 2017.

Book Review - Devin Griffiths, The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature between the Darwins (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)

Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 is an open-access journal committed to foregrounding innovative Romantic-studies research into bibliography, book history, intertextuality and textual studies.We publish material in a number of formats: peer-reviewed articles, reports on individual/collaborative research projects, bibliographical checklists and biographical profiles of overlooked Romantic writers. Romantic Textualities also carries book reviews and a regularly updated blog and Twitter feed. The journal was relaunched in 2017.

Book Review - Siobhan Carroll, An Empire of Air and Water: Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 1750–1850 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)

Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 is an open-access journal committed to foregrounding innovative Romantic-studies research into bibliography, book history, intertextuality and textual studies.We publish material in a number of formats: peer-reviewed articles, reports on individual/collaborative research projects, bibliographical checklists and biographical profiles of overlooked Romantic writers. Romantic Textualities also carries book reviews and a regularly updated blog and Twitter feed. The journal was relaunched in 2017.

Re-evaluating the Minerva Press: Introduction

Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 is an open-access journal committed to foregrounding innovative Romantic-studies research into bibliography, book history, intertextuality and textual studies.We publish material in a number of formats: peer-reviewed articles, reports on individual/collaborative research projects, bibliographical checklists and biographical profiles of overlooked Romantic writers. Romantic Textualities also carries book reviews and a regularly updated blog and Twitter feed. The journal was relaunched in 2017.

Book Review - Devoney Looser, The Making of Jane Austen (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)

Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 is an open-access journal committed to foregrounding innovative Romantic-studies research into bibliography, book history, intertextuality and textual studies.We publish material in a number of formats: peer-reviewed articles, reports on individual/collaborative research projects, bibliographical checklists and biographical profiles of overlooked Romantic writers. Romantic Textualities also carries book reviews and a regularly updated blog and Twitter feed. The journal was relaunched in 2017.

Book Review - Kevin Gilmartin, William Hazlitt: Political Essayist (Oxford University Press, 2015)

Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 is an open-access journal committed to foregrounding innovative Romantic-studies research into bibliography, book history, intertextuality and textual studies.We publish material in a number of formats: peer-reviewed articles, reports on individual/collaborative research projects, bibliographical checklists and biographical profiles of overlooked Romantic writers. Romantic Textualities also carries book reviews and a regularly updated blog and Twitter feed. The journal was relaunched in 2017.

‘The first impression, you, yourself, will buy’: The Gunninghiad, Virginius and Virginia and the Art of Scandal at the Minerva Press

Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 is an open-access journal committed to foregrounding innovative Romantic-studies research into bibliography, book history, intertextuality and textual studies.We publish material in a number of formats: peer-reviewed articles, reports on individual/collaborative research projects, bibliographical checklists and biographical profiles of overlooked Romantic writers. Romantic Textualities also carries book reviews and a regularly updated blog and Twitter feed. The journal was relaunched in 2017.

O Espólio Literário de Almeida Garrett

Preparado no âmbito da edição crítica em curso do Romanceiro de Almeida Garrett (1799-1854), este trabalho estuda um importante legado documental do eminente escritor português. Referimo-nos aos Documentos 59 a 63 do Espólio Literário de Almeida Garrett, que se encontram depositados na Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra e que abarcam manuscritos autógrafos e originais de imprensa do autor com vista sobretudo à publicação de Garrett (1843), bem como à Coleção Futscher Pereira. Partindo do facto de que o núcleo documental coimbrão se apresenta como uma verdadeira miscelânea, o que perturba o reconhecimento do seu importante valor cultural e patrimonial, propomo- nos contribuir para o reposicionamento destes materiais a partir de uma abordagem essencialmente material e filológica. Discutir-se-ão, assim, algumas das características do espólio, as quais espelham as práticas (por vezes questionáveis) que nortearam a organização destes materiais no passado.

Pureza e violência: imagens da infância em A. Veteranyi

Este artigo pretende discutir três contextos significativos do romance Por que a criança cozinha na polenta, da escritora romena Aglaja Veteranyi, publicado postumamente em 2004, em que a pureza da infância é assaltada por experiências da violência e incompreensão. Sendo assim, a análise está focada em três círculos sociais distintos e predominantes no texto de Veteranyi: a família, o trabalho e as amizades. Em cada um desses contextos, o universo infantil da voz narrativa e protagonista do romance é confrontado com uma realidade cruel. Trata-se de uma realidade, carregada de violência, na qual a voz narrativa se revela incapaz de decodificar suas implicações, por não alcançar a dimensão de todo sentido com que se vê confrontada.

«Climbing The Alps»: Symbolic Toponymy
 as aFactor of the Cycles Formationin I.A. Bunin’s Oeuvre

The article analyzes the unassembled cycle of I.A. Bunin’sthree texts with the same title «In the Alps». The poem and the chronologically first short story with the same title were written at the beginning of the writer’s literary career. At that time Bunin learned from outstanding predecessors in order to find his own poetic voice and place in the field of literature. The result of the searches showed the invention of a unique genre – the genre of prosaic miniature. Then, half a century after publication of the first texts «In the Alps»,the third short story with the same titleappeared. The meaning of the toponym «The Alps» in the title of the short stories is
 explained by appealing to Bunin’s memoirs and self-describing notes. The concept «The Alps» in his literary works is initiated, on the one hand, by the writer’s first trip to Switzerland, and, on the other hand, by the parallel reception of the so-called
 «Swiss myth» in the works of European and Russian romantic poets and writers: G. G. Byron and V.A. Zhukovsky. While the motifs and imagery system of Bunin’s «alpine » cycle is inherited from his predecessors, the innovations of his literary method
 are demonstrated in the narrative organization of the texts.

Jan Śniadecki’s Philosophical Interpretations of the Concepts Explaining Beauty and Art

Analysing Śniadecki’s articles and chapters from his “Philosophy of Human Mind” dealing with the problems of aesthetic taste, style, wit, imagination and essence of beauty, we question a view of Śniadecki as a dogmatic proponent of Classicism and an enemy to Romanticism, which, in our view, is based on in-depth studies of his most famous nevertheless only one article “On Classical and Romantic Writings”. We suppose that French aesthetics is not the exclusive keystone of Śniadecki’s ideas. Therefore, we examine the peculiarities of his thought in the context of their relationship with the ideas by philosophers of the Scottish school of common sense and argue that these are close. His descriptions of taste and style, of the roles of imagination and sensory expressions are similar to Reid's and Stewart's ones. We show that Śniadecki strives to substantiate the objectivist view of aesthetics and rationally explain the essence of beauty and art, but, by surprise, his thought about the relationship between genius and rules is recalling Kantian view. Our conclusion is that Sniadecki's ideas might be attributed to at least neo-Classical, or even to pre-Romanticist period.

Views of İdeal Society by Romantic Writers Against Social İnjustice: Recasting the Revolution

Views of İdeal Society by Romantic Writers Against Social İnjustice: Recasting the Revolution

On the Edges of Gothic Parody: The Neglected Work of Mrs F.C. Patrick and Sarah Green

This article examines two novels that parody popular, late eighteenth-century fiction: Mrs F.C. Patrick, More Ghosts! (1798) and Sarah Green, Romance Readers and Romance Writers (1810). Both texts embrace and resist elements of gothic romance through intertextuality and generic instability. These two novels are marked by dynamic ambivalence: the writers overtly disavow the gothic genre, yet fail to abandon gothic sympathies for a consistent parody. Dynamic ambivalence empowers the reader to take multiple, conflicting positions within and against the plot. Both authors warn readers that in order to strengthen one’s mind, one must be insensible to melodrama and resist romantic extravagances; nevertheless, each exposes this stance as a façade. Using comic elements to deflect criticism and satire to establish their moral vision, Patrick and Green aim to elicit sympathy for female characters, even when they are foolish, deceived, or debauched. More Ghosts! and Romance Readers offer a cultural critique, embedded in parody, which challenges the contradictions inherent in women’s position in that era.

Emperors’ Nicknames and Roman Political Humour

SummaryThe article examines unofficial imperial nicknames, sobriquets and appellatives, from Octavian Augustus to Julian the Apostate, in the light of traditions of Roman political humour, and argues that in the political field during the Principate there were two co-existing competing modes of emperors’ naming: along with an official one, politically loyal, formalised and institutionally legitimised, there existed another – unofficial, sometimes oppositional and even hostile towards individual emperors, frequently licentious, humorously coloured and, in this regard, deeply rooted in Roman Republican traditions of political humour. Many of the known imperial nicknames and appellatives belong to a specific kind of folklore and express popular public opinion. They survived for us because of ancient authors’ interest in using such material for their literary and ideological intentions, particularly to express better the individual characteristics of the historical personages. But, for the very same purposes, Greek and Roman writers could invent some names and sobriquets, following special rhetorical and moralising principles, or mere love of ridicule. All in all, most imperial nicknames, both authentic and made-up, reveal a rather good quality of humour and mockery constructed by expressive linguistic devices and various rhetorical tropes. An apt derisive nickname marked anti-values, mocked the ruler’s badness and could vilify his reputation to the extreme, stigmatise his personality, or else become a widely-used quasi-cognomen. Many nicknames and appellatives were of ephemeral,ad hocnature, their sense and effect largely dependent on the particular context; but, taken as a whole, they demonstrate the possible scope of and common trends in naming practice. The political system of the Principate and its very atmosphere of hypocrisy did promote double meaning and double thinking reflected in the double system of the rulers’ nomenclature. Imperial nicknames were a counter-hegemonic transcript and a weapon in the struggle for symbolic capital. All the efforts which many emperors took to control theirnominawere ultimately powerless against the strength of the inevitable humorous counter-naming by the ruled.

Bodies in Late Romanticism: Two Perspectives

Abstract One of the major themes of discussion in the art and especially the literature of the 18th and 19th centuries was the body rather than the soul. In the beginning this seemed to be the case mostly because of the natural processes related to the transforming events of maturation and death of the human body and mind. However, towards the end of the 18th century and well into the 19th century, a certain shift took place from the common perspective on the body to a rather scientific literary approach. Our attempt is to notice and make the necessary connections between the concepts of nature (both human and external/physical nature) and the innovative technologies implemented in the then society, with a later reference to the new accidental and commercial facets of death felt as destruction of nature especially in the work of the American Romantic writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Being aware that they are highly spoken of in view of their transcendentalism as a particular philosophy dealing with the bond between man and nature, we will slowly come to terms with this type of concerns and connect them to the conflicting reality of industrialization as a sudden and repressive phenomenon within the society of men. Finally our point is that this very phenomenon caused the two writers to make a historical detour and use their formation as naturalist thinkers in order to make sense of their century’s deaths and diseases. This is to say that even from a Romantic perspective, the concern for the body is surprisingly concrete, while these writers’ transcendentalist concerns for the soul are prolix though without substance.

Dissonante Namen. Die Namen in E.T.A. Hoffmanns Märchen Die Königsbraut

Even after having achieved international fame with his fantastic stories, the Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann considered himself more as a musician and composer than as a writer. In his theoretical writings about music, he extolled the value of dissonances, though he produced them rather more in his poetic works than in his musical compositions. These dissonances can be distinctly perceived in the proper names found in his fairy tale The King’s Bride which, with the exception of the river Main and the personal name Anna/ Ännchen, are all invented by Hoffmann.