Repossessing the romantic past / edited by Heather Glen and Paul Hamilton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- NOTES -- PART I Dissent and opposition -- CHAPTER 1 'Severe contentions of friendship': Barbauld, conversation, and dispute -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2 Hazlitt's visionary London -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3 Shelley's republics -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4 Memoirs of a dutiful niece: Lucy Aikin and literary reputation -- AN AUTHORIZING FAMILY -- DUTIFUL DAUGHTER, DUTIFUL NIECE -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5 Holding Proteus: William Godwin in his letters -- NOTES -- PART II Reopening the case of Edgeworth -- CHAPTER 6 Edgeworth and Scott: the literature of reterritorialization -- DEBATABLE LANDS -- DETERRITORIALIZATION AND THE CLOSE-UP -- READING COUNTENANCES IN SCOTT AND EDGEWORTH -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7 Maria Edgeworth and 'the light of nature': artifice, autonomy, and anti-sectarianism in Practical Education (1798) -- NOTES -- PART III Different directions -- CHAPTER 8 Coleridge's stamina -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 9 Elizabeth Hamilton's Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah and Romantic orientalism -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 10 Jane Austen and the professional wife -- THE PROFESSIONS -- THE PROFESSIONS IN EMMA, MANSFIELD PARK, AND PERSUASION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 11 High instincts and real presences: two Romantic responses to the death of Beauty -- THE PROBLEM OF BEAUTY -- WORDSWORTHIAN BEAUTY -- BYRONIC BEAUTY -- BEAUTY AS REAL PRESENCE -- BEAUTIFUL MINDS -- NOTES -- Marilyn Butler: a bibliography Heather Glen -- BOOKS -- ARTICLES, CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS, PUBLISHED LECTURES -- REVIEWS -- Index -- Last Page.

This collection of new essays offers new perspectives on Maria Edgeworth, Coleridge, Austen, Scott and others, showing that the openness of modern critical perceptions matches and reflects the diversity of the literature and culture of the Romantic period itself.

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