Lost Romantics

Norbert Lennartz is Professor of English Literature at the University of Vechta (Germany). He has published widely on Romanticism, in particular on Byron, and on the paragons of the Victorian Age (Dickens Hardy, Wilde). He has just completed a full-length study on literary representations of tears, bodily fluids and porous bodies

• Probing the Realms of Lostness, Canonicity and Oblivion: An Introduction.- Six Characters in Search of their Lost Playwrights.- Nathan Drake and the Rehabilitation of Superstition.- Mary Blachford Tighe: “No haunting dream”.- The Art of Nature in the Poetry of Ann Batten Cristall.- Towards a Labouring-Class Poetics: Recovering Edward Rushton.- Catching up with Walking Stewart.- Scaling Histories and Relating Systems: Figurations of Deep Time in the poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes.- Clare’s Late Styles.- Lost in Media: John Polidori’s Vampyre as a Serial Figure in Romantic Popular Culture.- Polidori’s Ernestus Berchtold and the Daring Narrative of Incest.- Mary Shelley’s Abortion.- Gender and Gender Issues in Mary Shelley’s Narrative.- Henry Crabb Robinson and Edward Armitage’s Lost Fresco at Dr Williams’s Library.- The Lost Gastronomers.- Charles Armitage Brown: The Friend of Keats.- Barry Cornwall: Lost Nightingale