Romanticism, History, Historicism Essays on an Orthodoxy

Preface

Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Introduction: The Emperor and the Rock Limpet – Reflections on an Orthodoxy

Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf Turley

1. The Incommensurable Value of Historicism

Tim Milnes (Edinburgh University)

2. The Hair of Milton: Historicism and Literary History

Erik Gray (Columbia University)

3. Telling Lives to Children: Young versus New Historicism in Little Arthur’s History of England

Michael Simpson (Goldsmiths, University of London)

4. ‘In Embalmèd Darkness’: Keats, the Picturesque, and the Limits of New Historicism

Kelly Grovier (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

5. Whose History? My Place or Yours? Republican Assumptions and Romantic Traditions

Kenneth Johnston (University of Indiana)

6. Romanticism, Historicism, Feminism

Anne Mellor (University of California, Los Angeles) and Susan Wolfson (Princeton University)

7. Romanticism and the Feminist Uses of History

Gary Kelly (University of Alberta, Canada)

8. New Historicism, New Austen, New Romanticism

Robert Miles (University of Victoria, Canada)

9. Overlooking History: The Case of John Thelwall

Judith Thompson (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia)

10. Leigh Hunt and Romantic Biography

Nicholas Roe (University of St Andrews)

11. Cain and the ‘History’ of Cradle Songs

Damian Walford Davies (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

Preface

Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Introduction: The Emperor and the Rock Limpet – Reflections on an Orthodoxy

Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf Turley

1. The Incommensurable Value of Historicism

Tim Milnes (Edinburgh University)

2. The Hair of Milton: Historicism and Literary History

Erik Gray (Columbia University)

3. Telling Lives to Children: Young versus New Historicism in Little Arthur’s History of England

Michael Simpson (Goldsmiths, University of London)

4. ‘In Embalmèd Darkness’: Keats, the Picturesque, and the Limits of New Historicism

Kelly Grovier (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

5. Whose History? My Place or Yours? Republican Assumptions and Romantic Traditions

Kenneth Johnston (University of Indiana)

6. Romanticism, Historicism, Feminism

Anne Mellor (University of California, Los Angeles) and Susan Wolfson (Princeton University)

7. Romanticism and the Feminist Uses of History

Gary Kelly (University of Alberta, Canada)

8. New Historicism, New Austen, New Romanticism

Robert Miles (University of Victoria, Canada)

9. Overlooking History: The Case of John Thelwall

Judith Thompson (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia)

10. Leigh Hunt and Romantic Biography

Nicholas Roe (University of St Andrews)

11. Cain and the ‘History’ of Cradle Songs

Damian Walford Davies (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

Preface

Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Introduction: The Emperor and the Rock Limpet – Reflections on an Orthodoxy

Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf Turley

1. The Incommensurable Value of Historicism

Tim Milnes (Edinburgh University)

2. The Hair of Milton: Historicism and Literary History

Erik Gray (Columbia University)

3. Telling Lives to Children: Young versus New Historicism in Little Arthur’s History of England

Michael Simpson (Goldsmiths, University of London)

4. ‘In Embalmèd Darkness’: Keats, the Picturesque, and the Limits of New Historicism

Kelly Grovier (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

5. Whose History? My Place or Yours? Republican Assumptions and Romantic Traditions

Kenneth Johnston (University of Indiana)

6. Romanticism, Historicism, Feminism

Anne Mellor (University of California, Los Angeles) and Susan Wolfson (Princeton University)

7. Romanticism and the Feminist Uses of History

Gary Kelly (University of Alberta, Canada)

8. New Historicism, New Austen, New Romanticism

Robert Miles (University of Victoria, Canada)

9. Overlooking History: The Case of John Thelwall

Judith Thompson (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia)

10. Leigh Hunt and Romantic Biography

Nicholas Roe (University of St Andrews)

11. Cain and the ‘History’ of Cradle Songs

Damian Walford Davies (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

Biography

Damian Walford Davies is Senior Lecturer in Romantic and Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Co-Director of the Centre for Romantic Studies, in the Department of English at Aberystwyth University, Wales.