Reviews, 1997(listed alphabetically by reviewer) Compiled by Jonathan Gross, DePaul University Edited for the web by Kyle Grimes Allen, Ward. Rev. of Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible, by Stephen Prickett. Sewanee Review 105 (1997): xxviii-xxx. Anon. Rev. of Byron: The Flawed Angel, by Phyllis Grosskurth. Virginia Quarterly Review 73.4 (1997): 127-28. Anon. Rev. of The Frankenstein Notebooks: A Facsimile Edition of Mary Shelley's Manuscript Novel, 1816-17, ed. Charles E. Robinson, vol. 9 of The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics. TLS (Feb. 14, 1997): 24. Anon. Rev. of The Last Man, ed. Anne McWhir. NCL 51.4 (1997): 565. Anon. Rev. of Mary Shelley, by Johanna M. Smith. NCL 52.2 (1997): 283. Anon. "Writ in Granite." Rev. of Keats, by Andrew Motion. Economist (Nov. 15, 1997): R13-R14. Baker, John Haydn. "Legacy of Leghorn." Rev. of Lives of the Great Romantics: Shelley, Byron, and Wordsworth by Their Contemporaries, ed. John Mullan, vol. 1: Shelley, ed. John Mullan, and Shelley's Poetry: The Divided Self, by Simon Haines. TLS (Aug. 22, 1997): 25. Baker, John Haydn. Rev. of Napoleon and English Romanticism, by Simon Bainbridge. TLS (May 23, 1997): 23. Baldick, Chris. Rev. of Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic, by Anne Williams, and Ann Radcliffe: The Great Enchantress, by Robert Miles. RES 48 (1997): 256-58. Baldick, Chris. Rev. of The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day, Vol. 1, The Gothic Tradition, by David Punter. RoN 5 (Feb. 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Barber, Samantha J. Rev. of A Moment's Monument: Revisionary Poetics and the Nineteenth-Century English Sonnet, by Jennifer Ann Wagner. RoN 5 (Feb. 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Barnard, John. Rev. of Leigh Hunt and the Poetry of Fancy, by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe. RES 48.191 (1997): 409-10. "This book intends to read Hunt's poetry in its own right, circumventing the habitual condescension toward Hunt as polluter of Keats, as Harold Skimpole, or as naive meliorist." Beatty, Bernard. Rev. of Keats and History, ed. Nicholas Roe. RES 48.190 (1997): 264-65. Beatty, Bernard. Rev. of Orientalism in Lord Byron's "Turkish Tales," by A. R. Kidwai. BJ 25 (1997): 112. Behrendt, Stephen C. Rev. of Shelley's Satire: Violence, Exhortation, and Authority, by Steven E. Jones. KSJ 46 (1997): 177-79. Bemrose, John. Rev. of Byron: The Flawed Angel, by Phyllis Grosskurth. Maclean's 28 (Apr. 1997): 61. Bennett, Andrew. Rev. of Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts, by Terence Hoagwood. BJ 25 (1997): 122-23. Bennett, Andrew. Rev. of Revision and Romantic Authorship, by Zachary Leader. RoN 5 (Feb. 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Bennett, Betty T. Rev. of The Frankenstein Notebooks: A Facsimile Edition of Mary Shelley's Manuscript Novel, 1816-17, ed. Charles E. Robinson, vol. 9 of The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics. KSJ 46 (1997): 183-85. Bewell, Alan. Rev. of Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780-1832, by Alan Richardson. MP 95.2 (1997): 261-65. Binfield, Kevin. Rev. of Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World, by Timothy Morton. NCP 24.1 (1997): 152-57. Birns, Nicholas. Rev. of Romanticism and the Anglican Newman, by David Goslee. Christianity & Literature, 46 (1997): 207-9. Blood, Roger. Rev. of The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics, ed. and trans. Frederick C. Beiser. ERR 8.4 (1997): 216-24. Botting, Fred. Rev. of Gender, Genre, and the Romantic Poets: An Introduction, by Philip Cox. RoN 5 (Feb. 1997). <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. In addition to three chapters on Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Anna Letitia Barbauld, Cox's book includes chapters titled "John Keats: Effeminacy, Drama, and the Performance of Gender," "Lord Byron: Manfred and the Closet Drama," and "Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound and the Celebration of Difference." Box, M. A. Rev. of Locke, Literary Criticism, and Philosophy, by William Walker. RES 48 (1997): 250-51. Bradburn, Beth. Rev. of Wordsworth and the Question of 'Romantic Religion,' by Nancy Easterlin. RC-Reviews (Fall 1997): <http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/easterlin.html>. Brigham, Linda. Rev. of Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind, by Karl Kroeber. College Literature, 24 (1997): 195-201. Brisman, Leslie. Rev. of Milton, the Metaphysicals, and Romanticism, ed. Lisa Low and Anthony John Harding. MP 95 (1997): 120-22. Brown, David. Rev. of Romanticism and the Anglican Newman, by David Goslee. N&Q 44.2 (1997): 284-86. Brown, Jane K. Rev. of The Specular Moment: Goethe's Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism, by David Wellbery. MLQ 58 (1997): 351-55. Wellbery reads texts as linguistic and rhetorical objects that encode not the experience of the individual genius, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, but the intellectual and emotional matrix of all late-eighteenth-century Germany as 'the signature of a historical emergence' (3) . . . In readings of some fifteen poems from the late 1760s to the late 1770s, Wellbery develops a new, psychoanalytic myth, not of the poet but of the age." Brown, Marshall. Rev. of Majestic Indolence: English Romantic Poetry and the Work of Art, by Willard Spiegelman. MP 94 (1997): 399-402. Brownjohn, Andrew. "Romantic with a Political Heart." Rev. of Keats, by Andrew Motion. TES (Oct. 3, 1997): 2:7. Brunstrom, Conrad. Rev. of Landscape, Liberty, and Authority: Poetry, Criticism, and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth, by Tim Fulford. RoN 6 (May 1997). <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Cannon, John. Rev. of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion, and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. The English Historical Review, 112 (1997): 491-92. Carlson, Julie A. Rev. of Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers, by Catherine B. Burroughs. RC-Reviews 1.1 (Fall 1997). <http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/burroughs.html>. Carretta, Vincent. Rev. of Mind-Forged Manacles: Slavery and the English Romantic Poets, by Joan Baum, and Translating Slavery: Gender and Race in French Women's Writing, 1783-1823, ed. Doris Y. Kadish and Francoise Massardier-Kenney. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 30 (1997): 455-56. Mind-Forged Manacles discusses Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Shelley, and Blake. Translating Slavery, the other work under review, is "a rewarding and provocative combination of meditations on the theory and practice of translation" that takes as its subject "historical contexts and the question of political correctness" (456). Translated texts include Olympe de Gouges' Reflections on Negroes; Black Slavery, or the Happy Shipwreck; Declaration of the Rights of Woman; "Response to the American Champion"; Germaine de Staël's "Mirza, or Letters of a Traveler"; "An Appeal to the Sovereigns Convened in Paris to Grant the Abolition of the Slave Trade"; "Preface to the Translation of a Work by Mr. Wilberforce on the Slave Trade"; "The Spirit of Translations"; and Claire de Duras' Ourika. Castle, Terry. Rev. of Byron: The Flawed Angel, by Phyllis Grosskurth. NYTBR (Apr. 13, 1997): 13. Cevasco, G. A. Rev. of Romanticism and the Androgynous Sublime, by Warren Stevenson. Choice, 34.5 (1997): 799. Cevasco, G. A. Rev. of Shelley's Poetry: The Divided Self, by Simon Haines. Choice, 34.10 (1997): 1662. Chandler, David. Rev. of Reading Popular Prints: 1790-1870, by B. Maidment. RoN 5 (Feb. 1997). <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Chandler, David. Rev. of Youth and Revolution in the 1790s: Letters of William Pattison, Thomas Amyot, and Henry Crabb Robinson, ed. Penelope J. Corfield and Chris Evans. RoN 7 (Aug. 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Clubbe, John. Rev. of Napoleon and English Romanticism, by Simon Bainbridge. KSJ 46 (1997): 208-10. Clubbe, John. Rev. of Transports: Travel, Pleasure, and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830, ed. Chloe Chard and Helen Langdon. BJ 25 (1997): 113-15. Collings, David. Rev. of Romantic Potency: The Paradox of Desire, by Laura Claridge. SIR 36 (1997): 140-43. Corbett, Robert M. Rev. of Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley, ed. Peter J. Kitson. RoN 7 (Aug. 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Cox, Philip. Rev. of Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World, ed. Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran. N&Q 44.1 (1997): 281-82. Crossan, Greg. Rev. of Lives of the Great Romantics: Shelley, Byron, and Wordsworth by Their Contemporaries, ed. John Mullan, 3 vols. (vol. 1, Shelley, ed. John Mullan; vol. 2, Byron, ed. Chris Hart; and vol. 3, Wordsworth, ed. Peter Swaab). N&Q 44 (1997): 414-16. Davis, Matthew M. Rev. of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion, and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. Modern Age 39 (1997): 73-76. De Almeida, Hermione. Rev. of Keats and Medicine, by Hillas Smith. KSJ 46 (1997): 192-94. Diliberto, Gioia. Rev. of The Writer's Home Companion: An Anthology of the World's Best Writing Advice, from Keats to Kunitz, ed. Joan Bolker. Chicago Tribune (June 8, 1997): 14:8. Donawerth, Jane. Rev. of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. Utopian Studies 8 (1997): 230-31. Doubek, Vratislav. Rev. of T. G. Masaryk: Polemiken und Essays zur Russischen und Europaischen Literatur-und Geistesgeschichte: Dostojevkij, von Puskin zu Gorkij, Musset, Byron, Goethe, Lenau, ed. Peter Demetz. Sociologicky Casopis 33 (1997): 115-18. Douglass, Paul. Rev. of Lord Byron: The Prisoner of Chillon and Don Juan, ed. Peter Cochran, vol. 13 of The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics. KSJ 46 (1997): 200-202. Emerson, Caryl. Rev. of Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony, by Monika Greenleaf. SIR 36.2 (1997): 292-99. Epstein, James. Rev. of The Birth of Romantic Radicalism: War, Popular Politics, and English Radical Reformism, 1800-1815, by Peter Spence. American Historical Review 102 (1997): 815. Erkelenz, Michael. Rev. of The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism, by Anthony John Harding. RES 48 (1997): 547-48. Everest, Kelvin. Rev. of Shelley's Opere, trans. Francesco Rognoni. TLS 4892 (Jan. 3, 1997): 26. Rognoni's parallel-text translation is very positively reviewed; it is "accompanied by illuminating annotation and detailed commentary." Felski, Rita. Rev. of Decadence and the Making of Modernism, by David Weir. Studies in the Novel 29 (1997): 265-66. Fleming, Anne. Rev. of Byron: The Flawed Angel, by Phyllis Grosskurth. BJ 25 (1997): 109-10. Fleming, Ray. Rev. of The Circle of Our Vision: Dante's Presence in English Romantic Poetry, by Ralph Pite. Comparative Literature Studies 34 (1997): 88-92. Reviews a book that is as much a discussion of English Romantic poetry as "an intellectual journey through Dante's . . . influence upon English Romantic culture" (90). Pite's volume discusses the importance of Henry Francis Cary's 1814 translation of Dante's Divina Commedia (reprinted in 1819) and includes explications of Keats' The Fall of Hyperion, Shelley's The Triumph of Life, and Byron's Don Juan. "Blake, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron reject in part or entirely the typical eighteenth century evaluation of Dante as merely 'the characteristic writer of an unenlightened age'" (12). Franklin, Caroline. Rev. of Romantic Identities: Varieties of Subjectivity, 1774-1830, by Andrea K. Henderson, and Romanticism and the Androgynous Sublime, by Warren Stevenson. BJ 25 (1997): 119-20. Fruman, Norman. Rev. of Byron: Lectures du "Don Juan," ed. Christian La Cassagnère. EA 50.1 (Jan.-Mar. 1997): 101-2. Fruman notes that this volume includes essays by Marie Jeane Ortemann on the "figuration of the possible" and Byron's authorial voice; John Donovan's "Don Juan Sails to Constantinople"; and Malcolm Kelsall's "Politics and Sexual Politics." Marta Dvorak discusses the role of food and digestion in the structure of the poem; Marc Porée explores Byron's absorption with the "body's appetites," arguing that the body functions as an organizing principle of the text. La Cassagnère's closing essay proposes that Byron's statement, "I've got new mythological machinery," is the key to the epic. Makes use of Freud, Lacan, New Criticism, and Deconstruction. Furst, Lillian R. Rev. of Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination, by Frederick Burwick. NCL 52.1 (1997): 110-12. Galperin, William. Rev. of Reflections of Revolution: Images of Romanticism, ed. Alison Yarrington and Kelvin Everest, and Romantic Revisions, ed. Robert Brinkley and Keith Hanley. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 20.1 (1997): 119-23. In Fred Botting's discussion of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which appears in Reflections of Revolution, "the romantic turn inward or away from the revolution becomes less a revolution in consciousness in a humanistic sense than a dialogic and excessive activity that is productive precisely because it cannot be fixed as either enthusiasm or disaffection" (120). Romantic Revisions is "the received notion of romanticism" (121) despite the promise of its title. Romantic Revisions includes an essay on how Leigh Hunt's Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries moves Shelley to "center-stage" (thereby displacing Byron); Betty Bennett, the editor of Mary Shelley's letters, discusses Shelley's "revisioning of herself not only as an author but, with respect to her husband's writing," as a "professional editor" (123). Galperin, William. Rev. of Women Writing about Money: Women's Fiction in England, 1790-1820, by Edward Copeland, and Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health,' by John Wiltshire. ERR 8 (1997): 225-29. Gidal, Eric. Rev. of The Sculpted Word: Keats, Ekphrasis, and the Visual Arts, by Grant F. Scott. KSJ 46 (1997): 194-96. Graham, Peter. Rev. of Byron and the Victorians, by Andrew Elfenbein. KSJ 46 (1997): 198-200. Greene, Donald. Rev. of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion, and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. The Huntington Library Quarterly 59 (1997): 105-23. Griffin, John R. Rev. of Romanticism and the Anglican Newman, by David Goslee. Church History 66.3 (1997): 635-36. Grimes, Kyle. Rev. of Shelley's Satire: Violence, Exhortation, and Authority, by Steven E. Jones. ERR 8 (Fall 1997): 464-68. Gutteridge, J. D. Rev. of Wordsworth's Reading, 1800-15, by Duncan Wu. N&Q 44.4 (1997): 562. Hammer, Espen. "Romanticism Revisted." Rev. of Recovering Ethical Life: Jurgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory, by Jay M. Bernstein. Inquiry 40.2 (1997): 225-42. Harding, Anthony John. Rev. of Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible, by Stephen Prickett. NCL 52 (1997): 252-55. Harris, Muriel. Rev. of Writing Center Perspectives, ed. Byron L. Stay, Christina Murphy, and Eric H. Hobson. CE 59 (1997): 83-88. Hart, Jack. "'Companion' Is No Place Like Our Home." Rev. of The Writer's Home Companion: An Anthology of the World's Best Writing Advice, from Keats to Kunitz, ed. Joan Bolker. American Editor 785 (1997): 27. Hensher, Philip. "Ripe But Not Rotten." Rev. of Keats, by Andrew Motion. Spec (Oct. 4, 1997): 38-39. Hewitt, Douglas. Rev. of The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, ed. Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster. N&Q 44.4 (1997): 434-35. Hindle, Maurice. Rev. of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, ed. J. Paul Hunter. BJ 25 (1997): 116-17. Hoagwood, Terence. Rev. of The Romantic Reformation: Religious Politics in English Literature, 1789-1824, by Robert M. Ryan. <http://www.otal.umd.edu/rc/reviews/back/back.html>. Hobsbaum, Philip. Rev. of Questioning Romanticism, ed. John Beer, and Romanticism, by Aidan Day. KSR 11 (1997): 199-204.
Hunt, Darnell M. Rev. of The Audience and Its Landscape, by James Hay, Lawrence Grossberg, and Ellen Wartella. Contemporary Sociology 26.4 (1997): 525-26. Ikegami, Robin. Rev. of Unsex'd Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790s, by Eleanor Ty. SIR 36 (1997): 143-46. Jacobs, Suzie. Rev. of Romancing Rhetorics: Social Expressivist Perspectives on the Teaching of Writing, by Sherrie L. Graden. CE 59 (1997): 461-69. Exposes simplistic characterizations of the Romantics in the field of composition studies. Jarvis, Simon. Rev. of Byron: The Flawed Angel, by Phyllis Grosskurth, and Lives of the Great Romantics: Shelley, Byron, and Wordsworth by Their Contemporaries, ed. John Mullan, Vol. 2: Byron, ed. Chris Hart. TLS (Apr. 4, 1997): 20-21. Jarvis, Simon. Rev. of Lives of the Great Romantics II: Keats, Coleridge, and Scott by Their Contemporaries, ed. John Mullan, Jennifer Wallace, Ralph Pite, and Fiona Robertson. TLS (Apr. 4, 1997): 20-21. Jones, Chris. Rev. of Romanticism and the Heritage of Rousseau, by Thomas McFarland. BJ 25 (1997): 121-22. Jones, Mark. Rev. of Rhetorical Traditions and British Romantic Literature, by Don H. Bialostosky and Lawrence D. Needham. Criticism 39 (1997): 155-59. Jones, Steven E. Rev. of Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World, by Timothy Morton. Criticism 39 (1997): 153-55. Jump, Harriet Devine. Rev. of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Language of Sensibility, by Syndy McMillen Conger, and Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, ed. Betty T. Bennett. RES 48.189 (1997): 122-23. Keach, William. Rev. of Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre, by David Duff. MP 94 (1997): 402-6. Kelly, Gary. Rev. of Women Travel Writers, Landscape, and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818, by Elizabeth A. Bohls. RoN 7 (Aug. 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Kelsall, Malcolm. Rev. of Napoleon and English Romanticism, by Simon Bainbridge. MLR 92 (1997): 702-3. Kent, David A. Rev. of British Satire and the Politics of Style, 1789-1832, by Gary Dyer. RC-Reviews 1.1 (Fall 1997): <http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/dyer.html>. Ketterer, David. Rev. of Murdering to Dissect: Grave-Robbing, Frankenstein, and the Anatomy of Literature, by Timothy Marshall. Science-Fiction Studies 24 (1997): 119-23. Kidwai, A. R. Rev. of The Progress of an Image: The East in English Literature, by Naji B. Oueijan. BJ 25 (1997): 113. Kielstra, Julia Paulman. Rev. of Mary Shelley Revisited, by Johanna M. Smith. RoN 6 (May 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Kielstra, Julia Paulman. Rev. of Romanticism and the Androgynous Sublime, by Warren Stevenson. RoN 6 (May 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Kroeber, Karl. Rev. of Romanticism and the Heritage of Rousseau, by Thomas McFarland. KSJ 46 (1997): 206-8. Kucich, John. Rev. of Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity, by Michael Ragussis. NCL 51.4 (Mar. 1997): 531-33. Lang, Timothy. Rev. of The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination, by Sam Smiles. American Historical Review 102 (1997): 104-5. Laplace-Sinatra, Michael. Rev. of The Annual Anthology, 1799, 1800, ed. Robert Southey. RoN 6 (Nov. 1997). <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Laplace-Sinatra, Michael. Rev. of Lives of the Great Romantics: Shelley, Byron, and Wordsworth by Their Contemporaries, ed. John Mullan. RoN 5 (Nov. 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Laplace-Sinatra, Michael. Rev. of Lives of the Great Romantics II: Keats, Coleridge, and Scott by Their Contemporaries, ed. John Mullan, Jennifer Wallace, Ralph Pite, and Fiona Robertson. RoN 5 (Nov. 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Laplace-Sinatra, Michael. Rev. of The Frankenstein Notebooks: A Facsimile Edition of Mary Shelley's Manuscript Novel, 1816-17, ed. Charles E. Robinson, vol. 9 of The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics. RoN 6 (May 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Larrissy, Edward. Rev. of Combative Styles: Romantic Writing and Ideology: Two Contrasting Interpretations, by Bruce Woodcock and John Coates. British Journal of Aesthetics 37 (1997): 94-96. Larry, Kenneth. Rev. of Romantic Identities: Varieties of Subjectivity: 1774-1830, by Andrea K. Henderson. RoN 6 (May 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Lau, Beth. Rev. of Keats and History, ed. Nicholas Roe. JEGP 96 (1997): 280-83. LeCoat, Nanette. Rev. of French Odysseys: Greece in French Travel Literature from the Renaissance to the Romantic Era, by Olga Augustinos. ERR 8 (1997): 442-45. Leighton, Angela. Rev. of A Passionate Sisterhood: The Sisters, Wives, and Daughters of the Lake Poets, by Kathleen Jones. TLS (June 27, 1997): 27. Leonard, John. Rev. of House of Frankenstein (television movie). New York (Nov. 3, 1997): 91. Lokke, Kari. Rev. of Outing Goethe and His Age, ed. Alice Kuzniar. ERR 8 (1997): 432-36. Lowry, Elizabeth. "Sailing the Severn Sea." Rev. of Salt Water, by Andrew Motion. TLS (July 18, 1997): 24. Includes a discussion of Andrew Motion's biography of Keats. Lurcock, A. F. T. Rev. of Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Romantic Autobiography: Reading Strategies of Self-Representation, by Sheila M. Kearns. RES 48 (1997): 408-9. Lynch, J. T. Rev. of The Frankenstein Notebooks: A Facsimile Edition of Mary Shelley's Manuscript Novel, 1816-17, ed. Charles E. Robinson, vol. 9 of The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics. Choice 34.7 (1997): 1167. Lynch, J. T. Rev. of The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley (9 vols.), general ed. Nora Crook and consulting ed. Pamela Clemit. Choice 34.5 (1997): 798-99. MacIntyre, Alasdair. Rev. of The Morals of Modernity and The Romantic Legacy, by Charles Larmore. The Journal of Philosophy 94 (1997): 485-90. Mackerness, E. D. Rev. of Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley, ed. Peter J. Kitson, and Romantic Writings, ed. Stephen Bygrave. N&Q 44 (1997): 416-18. Mackerness, E. D. Rev. of Miscellaneous Poetry, Prose, and Translations from Bodleian Ms. Shelley Adds. C.4, etc; Including Fair Copies of "Misery," ed. E. B. Murray, vol. 21 of The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts. N&Q 44 (1997): 280-81. Mackerness, E. D. Rev. of Romanticism, by Aidan Day, and Questioning Romanticism, by John Beer. N&Q 44.1 (1997): 125-26. Marchand, Leslie A. Rev. of Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron Legend, by James Soderholm. KSJ 46 (1997): 196-98. Marsland, Clive. Rev. of Sexual Power in British Romantic Poetry, by Daniel Watkins, and Romantic Masculinities: News from Nowhere 2 (The Romantic Studies Yearbook of the Wordsworth Centre at Lancaster University), ed. Tony Pinkney, Keith Harley, and Fred Botting. KSR 11 (1997): 211-17. Massad, Joseph. Rev. of Islam and Romantic Orientalism: Literary Encounters with the Orient, by Mohammed Sharafuddin. The Middle East Journal 51 (1997): 630-32.
Massey, Allan. Rev. of Byron: The Flawed Angel, by Phyllis Grosskurth. New Statesman (Feb. 28, 1997): 48. Mazzeo, Tilar J. Rev. of First Things, by Mary Jacobus. RoN 8 (Nov. 1997). <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. McCombie, Frank. Rev. of Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible, by Stephen Prickett. N&Q 44.4 (1997): 573-76. McKusick, James C. Rev. of Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, 1780-1834, ed. Alan Richardson and Sonia Hofkosh. ERR 8 (1997): 437-41. Meisel, Perry. Rev. of Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons: The Unconscious Crime Punishment, by Martha Duncan Grace. NYTBR (Jan. 26, 1997): 17. Discusses Romantic criminals in literature. Mellon, Stanley. Rev. of The Inside of History: Jean Henn Merle d'Aubigne and Romantic Historiography, by John B. Roney. American Historical Review 102 (1997): 1149. Mitchell, Leslie. Rev. of Edmund Burke: A Life in Caricature, by Nicholas K. Robinson. N&Q 44.3 (1997): 413-14. Monod, Paul. Rev. of Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion, and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism, by J. C. D. Clark. American Historical Review 102 (1997): 103-4. Monte, Steven. Rev. of The Insistence of History: Revolution in Burke, Wordsworth, Keats, and Baudelaire, by Geraldine Friedman. NCL 52 (1997): 259-61. Moore, M. D. Rev. of The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism, by Anthony John Harding. English Studies in Canada 23.3 (1997): 362-65. Moraru, Christian. Rev. of Decadence and the Making of Modernism, by David Weir. Modern Fiction Studies 43 (1997): 501-5. The author views decadence as a transition from Romanticism to Modernism. Morrison, Robert. Rev. of A Genealogy of the Modern Self: Thomas De Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing, by Alina Clej; Sacramental Commodities: Gift, Text, and the Sublime in De Quincey, by Charles J. Rzepka; and Original Ambivalence: Autobiography and Violence in Thomas De Quincey, by Matthew Schneider. KSJ 46 (1997): 202-6. Moscal, Jeanne. Rev. of Women Travel Writers, Landscape, and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818, by Elizabeth A. Bohls. ERR 8 (1997): 200-4. Newey, Vincent. Rev. of Byron and the Victorians, by Andrew Elfenbein. MLR 92 (1997): 703-4. Newlyn, Lucy. Rev. of Milton, the Metaphysicals, and Romanticism, ed. Lisa Low and Anthony John Harding. RES 48 (1997): 109-10. Novak, Maximillian E. "Having It Both Ways." Rev. of Hogarth and His Times, by David Bindman, and Hogarth: A Life and a World, by Jenny Uglow. Los Angeles Times (Dec. 7, 1997): BR29. Mentions Hazlitt's praise of Hogarth. O'Neill, Michael. Rev. of Lord Byron: Selected Poems, ed. Susan J. Wolfson and Peter Manning. RoN 7 (Aug. 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. O'Neill, Michael. Rev. of "The Homeric Hymns" and "Prometheus" Drafts Notebooks: Bodleian Ms. Shelley Adds. E.12, ed. Nancy Moore Goslee, vol. 18 of The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts. RoN 7 (Aug. 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. O'Neill, Michael. Rev. of The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style, by Jerome McGann. RoN 7 (Aug. 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. O'Neill, Michael. Rev. of Romantic Writings, ed. Stephen Bygrave. RoN 7 (Aug. 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Owen, W. J. B. Rev. of Wordsworth and Feeling: The Poetry of an Adult Child, by G. Kim Blank, and Majestic Indolence: English Romantic Poetry and the Work of Art, by Willard Spiegelman. RES 48 (1997): 548-50. Paley, Morton D. Rev. of Coleridge in Italy, by Edoardo Zuccato. RC-Reviews 1.1 (Fall 1997): <http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/zuccato.html>. Partington, Stephen Derwent. Rev. of In Search of Frankenstein: Exploring the Myths behind Mary Shelley's Monster, by Radu Florescu. RoN 7 (Aug. 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Paulin, Tom. Rev. of House of Shame Leave No Stone Unturned: You Never Know What's Lurking Underneath, by Edward Vulliamy and David Leigh. Guardian (Jan. 23, 1997): 2:9. Discusses Hazlitt and Hone. Peterfreund, Stuart. Rev. of Wordsworth and the Geologists, by John Wyatt. ERR 8 (1997): 455-59. Pfordresher, John. Rev. of Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible, by Stephen Prickett. Theological Studies 58 (1997): 553-54. Porter, M. Rev. of Selon Mallarmé, by Paul Bénichou. Romanic Review 88 (1997): 199-201. Bénichou's book explores the Romantics' idea of a hieratic language; it works out the implications of a Harvard University seminar devoted to Mallarmé, which Bénichou led in the fall of 1958 (199). "This volume completes Professor Bénichou's series of studies of the history of Romantic poetics published with Gallimard (Le Temps des prophetes, 1977; Les Mages romantiques, 1988; and L'Ecole du desenchantement, 1992). Pynsent, R. B. Rev. of T. G. Masaryk: Polemiken und Essays zur Russischen und Europaischen Literatur-und Geistesgeschichte: Dostojevkij, von Puskin zu Gorkij, Musset, Byron, Goethe, Lenau, ed. Peter Demetz. SEER 75.1 (1997): 143-46. This volume, in German, is the first edition of the original of the third volume (written 1906-10) of Masaryk's Russia and Europe (Jena, 1903); most essays on Russian, French, German, and English literature appeared in the 1890s and 1900s. Formerly translated into Czech between the wars, a large selection appears in English as volume 3 of The Spirit of Russia (ed. G. Gibian and R. Bass, London: 1968). Gorki and Byron are the heroes of this book, in which the author's "Protestant views inform his judgements" (Demetz). Quinn, Mary A. Rev. of The Clairmont Correspondence: Letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont, and Fanny Imlay Godwin, ed. Marion Kingston Stocking, and Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, ed. Betty T. Bennett. KSJ 46 (1997): 185-89. Randel, Fred V. Rev. of Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics, and the Fiction of Letters, by Mary A. Favret. SIR 36.1 (1997): 125-28. Ratliff, Ron. Rev. of Byron: The Flawed Angel, by Phyllis Grosskurth. LJ (Apr. 15, 1997): 80-81.
RDF. Rev. of The Frankenstein Notebooks: A Facsimile Edition of Mary Shelley's Manuscript Novel, 1816-17, ed. Charles E. Robinson, vol. 9 of The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics. TLS 4898 (Feb. 14, 1997): 24. Reynolds, Matthew. "Sparks for Genius?" Rev. of John Keats and the Culture of Dissent, by Nicholas Roe. TLS (Aug. 22, 1997): 25. Reynolds, Oliver. "Yours Like a Pyramid." Rev. of Keats, by Andrew Motion. TLS (Oct. 24, 1997): 3-4. Robbins, Bruce. Rev. of The Ideology of Imagination: Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism, by Forest Pyle. CompL 49 (1997): 279-81. Roberts, Adam. Rev. of Robert Southey: A Life, by Mark Storey. KSR 11 (1997): 192-94. "A biography of Southey is long overdue . . . Storey limits himself mostly to summary [of Southey's extensive prose writing], and although he quotes fairly liberally from the poetry he does not provide us with a particularly detailed critical response" (193). Roberts, Kenneth. Rev. of The Lied: Mirror of Late Romanticism, by Edward F. Kravitt. Notes 54 (1997): 84-85. Robinson, Daniel. Rev. of Re-Visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837, ed. Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner. KSJ 46 (1997): 212-14. Rodney, Paul Wayne. Rev. of Napoleon and English Romanticism, by Simon Bainbridge. RoN 5 (Feb. 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Roe, Nicholas. Rev. of The Examiner 1808-1812, ed. with an introduction by Yasuo Deguchi. KSR 11 (1997): 195-98. "The new edition, which is reproduced with admirable clarity, represents a major contribution to Romantic studies and political history. Interest in Leigh Hunt, editor of The Examiner, has intensified recently and the new edition will help further this while also enabling a thorough reappraisal of the cockney writers, critics, and artists associated with Hunt and The Examiner" (195). Benjamin Haydon's The Assassination of Dentatus, now lost, is described in Hunt's review of June 14, 1812. Rooksby, Rikky. Rev. of Byron and the Victorians, by Andrew Elfenbein. RES 48 (1997): 271-72. Rosenbaum, Susan. Rev. of Centring the Self: Subjectivity, Society and Reading from Thomas Gray to Thomas Hardy, by Vincent Newey. KSJ 46 (1997): 210-12. Rossington, Michael. Rev. of John Clare in Context, ed. Hugh Haughton, Adam Phillips, and Geoffrey Summerfield. KSR 11 (1997): 207-10. Rossington, Michael. Rev. of The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley (9 vols.), general ed. Nora Crook and consulting ed. Pamela Clemit. KSR 11 (1997): 187-92. "The student of Mary Shelley now has a complete picture of her oeuvre and access to most of it through a modern edition, a state of affairs which makes possible a measured and informed evaluation of her profoundly literary life" (187). Vol. 1: Frankenstein; vol. 2: Mathilda, Dramas, Reviews, Essays, Prefaces & Notes; vol. 3: Valperga; vol. 4: The Last Man; vol 5: The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, A Romance; vol. 6: Lodore; vol. 7: Falkner, A Novel; vol. 8: Travel Writing; and Index. Rzepka, Charles J. Rev. of Romanticism and the Androgynous Sublime, by Warren Stevenson. ERR 8 (1997): 446-49. Sabol, Cathy. Rev. of The Writer's Home Companion: An Anthology of the World's Best Writing Advice, from Keats to Kunitz, ed. Joan Bolker. LJ (May 15, 1997): 84. Sandy, Mark. Rev. of Ancestral Voices: Fifty Books from the Romantic Period, by Jonathan Wordsworth. RoN 6 (May 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Sandy, Mark. Rev. of Visionary Gleam: Forty Books from the Romantic Period, by Jonathan Wordsworth. RoN 6 (May 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Saunders, Julia. Rev. of Robert Southey: A Life, by Mark Storey. RoN 7 (Aug. 1997): <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/reviews.html>. Saunders, Kate. "A Life Complete." Rev. of Keats, by Andrew Motion. New Statesman 3 (Oct. 1997): 44. Saunders, Kate. Rev. of Keats and History, ed. Nicholas Roe. SIR 36 (1997): 277-83. Schoenfield, Mark. Rev. of Byron's Dialectic: Skepticism and the Critique of Culture, by Terence Hoagwood. SIR 36.1 (1997): 136-40. Schor, Esther. Rev. of Reinventing Allegory, by Theresa M. Kelley. RC-reviews 1.1 (Fall 1997). <http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/kelley.html>. Scott, David. Rev. of Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible, by Stephen Prickett. Theology 100 (1997): 225-26. Shaffer, E. S. Rev. of The Sculpted Word: Keats, Ekphrasis, and the Visual Arts, by Grant F. Scott. MLR 92 (1997): 954-55. Sharpe, R. A. Rev. of Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination, ed. Richard Eldridge. British Journal of Aesthetics 37 (1997): 297-98. Sheats, Paul D. Rev. of Centre and Circumference: Essays in English Romanticism, ed. Association of English Romanticism in Japan, and Comparison of Keats's "Hyperion" and "The Fall of Hyperion," by Yukie Ando. KSJ 46 (1997): 189-92. Shilstone, Frederick W. Rev. of The Shelley-Byron Conversation, by William D. Brewer. Southern Humanities Review 31 (1997): 289-93. Simpson, David. Rev. of Bearing the Dead: The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria, by Esther Schor. MP 94 (1997): 538-41. Soderholm, James. Rev. of Majestic Indolence: English Romantic Poetry and the Work of Art, by Willard Spiegelman. ERR 8 (1997): 214-16. Spencer, Jane. Rev. of Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, ed. Betty T. Bennett. N&Q 44.4 (1997): 563-64. Spiegelman, Willard. Rev. of Napoleon and English Romanticism, by Simon Bainbridge. NCL 52 (1997): 255-58. Spiegelman, Willard. Rev. of The Sculpted Word: Keats, Ekphrasis, and the Visual Arts, by Grant F. Scott. SIR 36 (1997): 133-36. Stafford, Fiona. Rev. of Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780-1832, by Alan Richardson. RES 48 (1997): 117-18. Stepp, Carl Sessions. "Memo to Writers: Don't Whine, Just Write." Rev. of The Writer's Home Companion: An Anthology of the World's Best Writing Advice, from Keats to Kunitz, ed. Joan Bolker. American Journalism Review 19.5 (1997): 47. Storey, Mark. Rev. of Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose, ed. Donald Low, and Lord Byron: The Prisoner of Chillon and Don Juan Canto IX: A Facsimile of the Original Draft Manuscripts in the Beinecke Library of Yale University, ed. Peter Cochran. RES 48.191 (1997): 406-8. Stuttaford, Genevieve, Maria Simson, and Jeff Zaleski, eds. Rev. of Byron: The Flawed Angel, by Phyllis Grosskurth. Publishers Weekly (Mar. 3, 1997): 57. Stuttaford, Genevieve, and Maria Simson. Rev. of Keats, by Andrew Motion. Publishers Weekly (Nov. 10, 1997): 60-61. Tannenbaum, Leslie. Rev. of Creating States: Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William Blake, by Angela Esterhammer; and Milton, the Metaphysicals, and Romanticism, ed. Lisa Low and Anthony John Harding. SIR 36 (1997): 284-91. Tweedy, R. S. Rev. of Evaluating Shelley, ed. Timothy Clark and Jerrold E. Hogle. N&Q 44.4 (1997): 562-63. Vendler, Helen. Rev. of Keats, by Andrew Motion. London Review of Books 19.20 (1997): 9-11. Vendler's review discusses Motion's new biography in light of biographies by Bate (1963), Ward (1963), and Gittings (1968) and faults Motion for reflecting trends in Keats studies concerned with politics, race, class, and gender. "Anachronistically belittling dead white male writers for 'racism' and 'misogyny' has provided critical sport for some years now on both sides of the Atlantic. I am amused to find the Indian Maid served up as Keats' sin in this respect (the accusation being so far-fetched), but rather astonished that a poet-biographer would concur with this indictment. There is an odd mixture...of the old vocabulary of appreciation with the newer vocabulary (never adequate to poetry) of materialist criticism" (10). Walker, Christopher. Rev. of From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium, by William Dalrymple. TLS (Aug. 8, 1997): 35. Dalrymple's account compared to that of a typical English Romantic. Wallace, Anne D. Rev. of Romantic Vagrancy: Wordsworth and the Simulation of Freedom, by Celeste Langan. NCL 51 (1997): 533-58. Walters, Colin. Rev. of Byron's "Corbeau Blanc": The Life & Letters of Lady Melbourne, 1751-1818, ed. Jonathan D. Gross. Washington Times (Sept. 7, 1997): B6. Watkins, Daniel. Rev. of The Theatres of War: Performance, Politics, and Society, 1793-1815, by Gillian Russell. JEGP 96 (1997): 137-40. Weber, Eugen. Rev. of The History of Civilization in Europe, by Francois Guizot. TLS (Apr. 25, 1997): 10-11. A book review of the 1846 edition of Guizot's book, translated into English by William Hazlitt's son.
Weissman, Judith. Rev. of Aramis, or The Love of Technology, by Bruno Latour, trans. Catherine Porter. Sewanee Review 105 (1997): 291-98. The book "is intended to reverse the meaning of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein so that the real crime is not tampering impiously with nature but abandoning the monster." Wendling, Ronald C. Rev. of Coleridge's Later Poetry, by Morton D. Paley. ERR 8 (1997): 460-63. Whale, John. Rev. of Combative Styles: Romantic Writing and Ideology: Two Contrasting Interpretations, by Bruce Woodcock and John Coates. RES 48 (1997): 261-62. Wheeler, K. M. Rev. of Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and Their Audiences in Great Britain and the United States, by William G. Rowland, Jr. Journal of European Studies 27.3 (1997): 370-72. "This study is, at its best, a most interesting compendium of quotations, primarily by romantic writers, expressing views about audiences, reviewers, publishers, and all the attendant, reported difficulties involved then, as now, in making a viable living as a practising author" (371). The book under review includes a discussion of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Poe, and others. White, Landeg. Rev. of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, by Nick Groom. TLS (June 27, 1997): 24. Review of three-volume boxed set, a reprint of Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, published by Routledge and priced at 250 pounds. "The real importance of Reliques for Wordsworth's generation is not that they read and digested and reproduced its abundance of forms and styles, but that Percy gave academic validation to a practice they had arrived at through their contact with popular forms, which had themselves been given a boost by Reliques. Whittall, Arnold. Rev. of Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism, ed. Ian Bent. Music & Letters 78 (1997): 289-92. Woodbridge, Kim. Rev. of Keats, by Andrew Motion. LJ 122.20 (1997): 106.
Woodring, Carl. Rev. of Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World, ed. Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran. KSJ 46 (1997): 179-81. Woods, Gregory. Rev. of Love between Men in English Literature, by Paul Hammond. TLS (Mar. 28, 1997): 25. Wright, Terence R. Rev. of Bearing the Dead: The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria, by Esther Schor. RES 48 (1997): 116-17. Wydeven, J. J. Rev. of Romanticism, by Duncun Wu. Choice 34 (1997): 1158. York, Sherry. Rev. of Spirit Like a Storm: The Story of Mary Shelley, by Calvin Craig Miller. Book Report 15.4 (1997): 45.
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