Shelley's 1821-1822 Huntington Notebook

Shelley's 1821-1822 Huntington Notebook
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780815311508

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.

The Empire of Stereotypes

The Empire of Stereotypes
Author: R. Casillo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2006-05-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1403983216

This book places Germaine de Stael's influential novel, Corrine, or Italy (1807) in relation to preceding and subsequent stereotypes of Italy as seen in the works of Northern European and American travel writers since the Renaissance.

Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire

Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire
Author: Matthew Leporati
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2023-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009285181

A lively account of the Romantic-era revival of epic literature set against the background of British imperialism's evangelical turn.

Nature, Politics, and the Arts

Nature, Politics, and the Arts
Author: Hermione de Almeida
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2015-03-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611495415

This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American culture. A multiple-authored chapter of postscripts on the aesthetic range of Woodring’s intellectual interests across cultural disciplines, his contributions to English studies and his informing influence on several generations of scholars, and their areas of interest, follows. A chapter from Woodring’s unpublished autobiography, on his childhood in small-town America, then concludes the volume with an ironic retrospection on intercultural origins. Topics addressed among the chapters include portraiture and self-fashioning, landscape art, physiognomy and caricatures, radical print ephemera, illustrated picaresque verse, social and political satire, traditions of the sublime in art and literature, transatlantic influences and aesthetics, chaos theory and the laws of thermodynamics, the Caribbean slave trade, revolutionary history, Napoleonic wars, the politics of multicultural communities, gender and race, marginalia and textual revelations, Native America, historical interchanges in curating museum shows, and contemporary American sculpture and art. Cultural figures of the nineteenth century that are featured in the discussions include Henry Adams, Beethoven, Blake, Byron, Willa Cather, Thomas Cole, Coleridge, James Fenimore Cooper, George Cruikshank, Ugo Foscolo, Washington Irving, Keats, Willibrord Mähler, George Romney, Rowlandson, Shelley, and Wordsworth. Chapter essays, commentaries, and Carl Woodring’s unpublished writings function together in Nature, Politics, and the Arts: Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring—with a depth of original perspectives and a multi-voiced and intercultural coherence. The book as a whole testifies to Woodring’s living and intellectually potent legacy for future students of nineteenth-century transatlantic culture and twenty-first century scholarship on literature and art.