Selected Studies in Romantic and American Literature, History, and Culture

'It is a testament to the achievements of all three scholars that Rzepkas occasional dialogue with their interpretations produces these wonderfully enlightening interventions and excellent documentation of the inventiveness of Rzepkas mind.' Studies in Romanticism '... [Rzepka offers a] high level of integrity, literary sensitivity, historical thoroughness, and engaging eloquence...' The Wordsworth Circle

Charles J. Rzepka is professor of English at Boston University, USA

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: Ozs Emerald City and the New Woman, 2. Christabels 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 Quinceys Violent Stages, 5. Bang-Up! Theatricality and the Diphrelatic Art in De Quinceys English Mail-Coach, 6. Thomas De Quinceys 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 Quinceys 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 Wordsworths 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. Cortezor Balboa, or Somebody Like That: Form, Fact, and Forgetting in Keatss Chapmans Homer Sonnet, Bibliography, Index