1st Edition
Selected Studies in Romantic and American Literature, History, and Culture Inventions and Interventions
By Charles J. Rzepka
Copyright 2010
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
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Gathered together for the first time, the essays in this volume were selected to give scholars ready access to important late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century contributions to scholarship on the Romantic period and twentieth-century literature and culture. Included are Charles J. Rzepka's award-winning essays on Keats's 'Chapman's Homer' sonnet and Wordsworth's 'Michael' and his critical... Read more
List of Illustrations, Foreword: The Critic as Investigator, List of Previously Published Essays, Introduction, Part 1. Women and Men, 1. “If I Can Make It There”: Oz’s Emerald City and the New Woman, 2. Christabel’s “Wandering Mother” and the Discourse of the Self: A Lacanian Reading of Repressed Narration, 3. The Ape and the Aristocrat, 4. Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision, Part 2. Thomas De Quincey’s Violent Stages, 5. Bang-Up! Theatricality and the “Diphrelatic Art” in De Quincey’s English Mail-Coach, 6. Thomas De Quincey’s “Three-Fingered Jack”: The West Indian Origins of the “Dark Interpreter”, 7. The “Dark Problem” of Greek Tragedy: Sublimated Violence in De Quincey, Part 3. Gifts and Powers, 8. A Gift that Complicates Employ: Poetry and Poverty in “Resolution and Independence”, 9. The Literature of Power and the Imperial Will: De Quincey’s Opium-War Essays, 10. Wordsworth between God and Mammon: The Early “Spots of Time,”, and the Sublime as Sacramental Commodity, Part 4. Sites and Regions, 11. Detection as Method: Reconstructing the Past in Godwin and Freud, 12. Sacrificial Sites, Place-Keeping, and “Pre-History” in Wordsworth’s “Michael”, 13. Race, Region, Rule: Genre and the Case of Charlie Chan, Part 5. All in Your Head, 14. Pictures of the Mind: Iron and Charcoal, “Ouzy” Tides and “Vagrant Dwellers” at Tintern, 1798, 15. “Cortez—or Balboa, or Somebody Like That”: Form, Fact, and Forgetting in Keats’s “Chapman’s Homer” Sonnet, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Charles J. Rzepka is professor of English at Boston University, USA
'It is a testament to the achievements of all three scholars that Rzepka’s occasional dialogue with their interpretations produces these wonderfully enlightening interventions and excellent documentation of the inventiveness of Rzepka’s mind.' Studies in Romanticism '... [Rzepka offers a] high level of integrity, literary sensitivity, historical thoroughness, and engaging eloquence...' The Wordsworth Circle
