At the Limits of Romanticism

MARY A. FAVRET teaches English and Women's Studies at Indiana University and is author of Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters. NICOLA J. WATSON teaches English at Northwestern University and is author of Revolution and the Form of the Novel 1790–1825: Intercepted Letters, Interrupted Seductions.

" ... provocative insights." --Nineteenth-Century Literature "... a series of well researched and persuasive essays examining what has been traditionally excluded from the Romantic literary canon: the feminine, the domestic, the local, collective, sentimental and novelistic." --Women's Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter "... a contribution of real quality to ongoing debates." --British Journal for 18th Century Studies

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Wordsworth and Romanticism in the Academy: John Rieder2. Climbing Parnassus, and Falling Off: Peter T. Murphy3. A Home for Art: Painting, Poetry and Domestic InteriorsMary A. Favret4. A Voice from across the Sea: Communitarianism at the Limits of RomanticismAnne Janowitz5. The Uneducated Imagination: Romantic Representations of LaborKurt Heinzelman6. Sexual Politics and Literary History: William Hazlitt's Keswick Escapade and sarah Hazlitt's JournalSonia Hofkosh7. Why Should I Wish for Works?: Literacy, Articulation, and the Borders of Literary CultureLucinda Cole and Richard G. Swartz8. History, Imperialism, and the Aesthetics of the Beautiful: Hemans and the Post-Napoleonic MomentNanora Sweet9. Trans-figuring Byronic IdenityNicola J. Watson10. Butchering James Hogg: Romantic Identity in the Magazine MarketMark L. Schoenfield11. An Embarrassing Subject: Use Value and Exchange Value in Early Gothic CharacterizationAndera Henderson12. Liquidating the Sublime: Gossip in Scott's Novels Jan B. Gordon13. Romantic Criticism: The State of the ArtMarjorie LevinsonNotes on ContributorsIndex