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Prism(s) Volume 1 - 1993

Rudolph Binion Love Beyond Death: The Anatomy of a Myth in the Arts

Jerome Christensen Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society

Laura Claridge Romantic Potency: The Paradox of Desire

Morris Eaves The Counter Arts Conspiracy: Art and Industry in the Age of Blake

William H. Galperin The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism

Steven Goldsmith Unbuilding Jerusalem: Apocalypse and Romantic Representation

David P. Haney William Wordsworth and the Hermeneutics of Incarnation

Gerhart Hoffmeister Goethes Mignon und Ihre Schwestern

David Simpson Romanticism, Nationalism and the Revolt Against Theory

Kathleen M. Wheeler Romanticism, Pragmatism and Deconstruction
 

Prism(s) Volume 2 - 1994

William D. Brewer The Shelley-Byron Conversation

Julie A. Carlson In the Theatre of Romanticism: Coleridge, Nationalism, Women

David L. Clark and Donald C. Goellnicht New Romanticisms: Theory and Critical Practice

David Collings Wordsworthian Errancies: the Poetics of Cultural Dismemberment

David Duff Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

Angela Esterhammer Creating States: Studies in the Preformative Language of John Milton and William Blake

Gary Kelly Women, Writing, and Revolution: 1790-1827

Elizabeth Kraft and William McCarthy The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld

Richard Kramer Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song

Karl Kroeber Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind

Lauren G. Leighton The Esoteric Tradition in Russian Romantic Literature

George J. Leonard Into the Light of Things: The Art of the Commonplace from Wordsworth to John Cage

Jean Moskal Blake, Ethics, and Forgiveness

Judith W. Page Wordsworth and the Cultivation of Women

Ralph Pite The Circle of Our Vision: Dante's Presence in English Romantic Poetry

Alan Richardson, Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice 1780-1832

Helmut Schanze Romantik Handbuch

Marian Scholtmeijer Animal Victims in Modern Fiction: From Sanctity to Sacrifice

Brian Shelley Shelley and Scripture: the Interpreting Angel

E. M. Vida Romantic Affinities: German Authors and Carlyle, a Study in the History of Ideas

Douglas B. Wilson The Romantic Dream: Wordsworth and the Poetics of the Unconscious
 

Prism(s) Volume 3 - 1995

Lewis Bagby Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky and Russian Byronism

Steven Bruhm Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction

Alina Clej A Genealogy of the Modern Self: Thomas de Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing

Steven Copley and Kathleen Sutherland Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: New Interdisciplinary Essays

Maurice Cranston The Romantic Movement

Elizabeth A. Fay Becoming Wordsworthian: A Performative Aesthetic

Paula R. Feldman and Theresa M. Kelley Romantic Women Writers

Christopher Felker Reinventing Cotton Mather in the American Renaissance

David Goslee Romanticism and the Aglican Newman

Mark Jones The Lucy Poems: A Case Study in Literary Knowledge

Steven E. Jones Shelley's Satire: Violence, Exhortation, and Authority

Jocelyne Kolb The Ambiguity of Taste: Freedom and Food in European Romanticism

Robert Miles Ann Radcliffe: The Great Enchantress

Thomas R. Moore A Thick and Darksome Veil: The Rhetoric of Hawthorne's Sketches, Prefaces, and Essays

Brennen O'Donnell The Passion of Meter

Richard R. O'Keefe Mythic Archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morse Peckham The Romantic Virtuoso

Forest Pyle The Ideology of Imagination

Charles J. Rzepka Sacramental Commodities: Gift, Text, and the Sublime in de Quincey

Esther Schor Bearing the Dead: The British Culture of Mourning From the Enlightenment to Victoria

Grant F. Scott The Sculpted Word

Willard Spiegelman Majestic Indolence: English Romantic Poetry and the Work of Art

R. H. Stephenson Goethe's Conception of Knowledge and Science

Marianne Kingston Stocking The Clairmont Correspondence: Letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clarimont, and Fanny Emlay Godwin

Marc A. Weiner Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination

Karen A. Weisman Imageless Truths: Shelley's Poetic Fictions

Duncan Wu Romanticism: An Anthology and Romanticism: A Critical Reader
 

Prism(s) Volume 4 - 1996

Simon Bainbridge Napoleon and English Romanticism

Gene H. Bell-Villada Art For Art's Sake and Literary Life

Fredrick Burwick Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination

Timothy Clark and Gerald E. Hogle Evaluating Shelley

Mark L. Greenburg Speak Silence: Rhetoric and Culture in Blake's Poetic Sketches

Andrea K. Henderson Romantic Identities: Varieties of Subjectivity 1774-1830

Terence Allan Hoagwood Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts

Sonia Hofkosh and Alan Richardson Romanticism, Race and Imperial Culture 1780-1834

Linda and Michael Hutcheon Opera: Desire, Disease, Death

Celeste Langan Romantic Vagrancy: Wordsworth and the Simulation of Freedom

Charles Larmore The Romantic Legacy

Christopher Newfield The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America

Adela Pinch Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austin

Stephen Prickett Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible

Forest Pyle The Ideology of Imagination

William G. Rowland, Jr. Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and Their Audiences in Great Britain and the United States

Mohammed Sharafuddin Islam and Romantic Orientalism

Daniel P. Watkins Sexual Power in British Romantic Poetry

David E. Wellbery The Specular Moment: Goethe's Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism
 

Prism(s) Volume 5 - 1997
 

Steven C. Behrendt Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press

Caryn Cossé Bell Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868

Timothy Clark The Theory of Inspiration: Composition as a Crisis of Subjectivity in Romantic and Post-Romantic Writing

Tom Conley The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France

Christopher S. Durer Herman Melville, Romantic and Prophet: A Study of His Romantic Sensibility and His Relationship to European Romantics

Paula R. Feldman British Women Poets of The Romantic Era

John Glendening The High Road: Romantic Tourism, Scotland and Literature, 1720-1820

Regina Hewitt The Possibilities of Society: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Sociological Viewpoint of English Romanticism

William Jewett Fatal Autonomy: Romantic Drama and the Rhetoric of Agency

Ira Livingston Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Post-modernity

Richard Matlak The Poetry of Relationship: The Wordsworths and Coleridge, 1797-1800

Gail M. Newman Locating the Romantic Subject: Novalis with Winnicott

Piotr Parlej The Romantic Theory of the Novel: Genre and Reflection in Cervantes, Melville, Flaubert, Joyce, and Kafka

Judith Pascoe Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry and Spectatorship

Gertrud Bauer Pickar Ambivalence Transcended: A Study of the Writings of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

John Rieder Wordsworth's Counterrevolutionary Turn: Community, Virtue, and Vision in the 1790s

Hugh Roberts Shelley and the Chaos of History: A New Politics of Poetry

John G. Rudy Wordsworth and the Zen Mind: The Poetry of Self-Emptying

Thomas P. Saine The Problem of Being Modern; or, the German Pursuit of Enlightenment from Leibniz to the French Revolution

Richard C. Sha The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism

Philip W. Silver Ruin and Restitution: Reinterpreting Romanticism in Spain

Clifford Siskin The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britian, 1700-1830

Philip Stewart and Jean Vaché Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Julie, or the New Heloise

Jennifer Wallace Shelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism

Susan J. Wolfson Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism
 

Prism(s) Volume 6 - 1998

Audrey Bilger Laughing Feminism: Subversive Comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen

Teddi Chichester Bonca Shelley's Mirrors of Love: Narcissism, Sacrifice, and Sorority

David Bromwich Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790's

Nancy Cerveti Scenes of Reading: Transforming Romance in Brontë, Eliot, and Woolf

James Chandler England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism

Brett Cooke Pushkin and the Creative Process

Richard Cronin The Year of the Lyrical Ballads

Peter Davidhazi The Romantic Cult of Shakespeare: Literary Reception in Anthropological Perspective

Richard Eldridge Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism

Harvey L. Gable Liquid Fire: Transcendental Mysticism in the Romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wayne Glausser Locke and Blake: A Conversation Across the Eighteenth Century

Robert F. Gleckner and Thomas Pfau Lessons of Romanticism

Diane Long Hoeveler Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender From Charlotte Smith to the Brontës

Diane Long Hoeveler and Larry H. Peer Comparative Romanticisms: Power, Gender, Subjectivity

Kenneth R. Johnston The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy

Beth Lau Keats's Paradise Lost

Catriona MacLeod Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller

Robert Burns Neveldine Bodies at Risk: Unsafe Limits in Romanticism and Postmodernism

James O'Rourke Keats's Odes and Contemporary Criticism

Larry H. Peer Romanticism Across the Disciplines

Charles Rosen Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen

Robert M. Ryan and Ronald A Sharp The Persistence of Poetry: Bicentennial Essays on Keats

Michael Simpson Closet Performances: Political Exhibition and Prohibition in the Dramas of Byron and Shelley

Lisa M. Steinman Master of Repetition: Poetry, Culture, and Work in Thomson, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Emerson

Anya Taylor Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink, 1780-1830

Paul M. Wiebe Myth as Genre in British Romantic Poetry

Michael Wiley In Romantic Geography: Wordsworth and Anglo-American Spaces
 

Prism(s) Volume 7 - 1999

No Review Essays in this Volume.
 

Prism(s) Volume 8 - 2000

Eugene Stelzig The Romantic Subject in Autobiography: Rousseau and Goethe

Caroline Joan S. Picart Resentment and the "Feminine" in Nietzsche's Politico-Aesthetics

Laura Otis Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics

Anne K. Mellor Mothers of the Nation: Women's Political Writing in England, 1780-1830

Daniel Sanjiv Roberts In Revisionary Gleam: De Quincy, Coleridge, and the High Romantic Argument

D. L. Macdonald Monk Lewis: A Critical Biography

Paul Elledge Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out

Jeffrey W. Vail The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron and Thomas Moore

Naji B. Oueijan A Compendium of Eastern Elements in Byron's Oriental Tales

Martin Prochazka Byron: East and West

Alan Bewell Romanticism and Colonial Disease

Julie Ellison Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion

Adela Pinch Strange Fits of Passion

Anya Taylor Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink, 1780-1830

Tim Fulford Romanticism and Masculinity: Gender, Politics and Poetics in the Writings of Burke, Coleridge, Cobber, Wordsworth, De Quincy, and Hazlitt

Sarah M. Zimmerman Romanticism, Lyricism, and History

Jonathan Bate The Song of the Earth

Steven E. Jones Satire and Romanticism

Laura Quinney The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth in Ashberry

Guinn Batten The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English Romanticism

Jerome Christensen Romanticism at the End of History

Lori Jo Marso (Un)Manly Citizens: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and Germaine de Stael's Subversive Women

Christopher Kelly Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Botanical Writings, and Letter to Franquieres

G. R. Thompson and Eric Carl Link Neutral Ground: New Traditionalism and the American Romance Controversy

Richard Gravil Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities 1776-1862

Eric Wilson Romantic Turbulence: Chaos, Ecology, and American Space

Eric Wilson Emerson's Sublime Science

Susanna F. Ferlito Topographies of Desire: Manzoni, Cultural Practices, and Colonial Scars

Massimo Mandolini Grecian Vistas: Giacomo Leopardi and Romantic Hellas

Melissa Frazier Frames of the Imagination: Gogol's Arabesques and the Romantic Question of Genre

James Holt McGavrin Literature and the Child: Romantic Continuations, Postmodern Contestations

Joshua Wilner Feeding on Infinity: Readings in the Romantic Rhetoric of Internalization

 

Prism(s) Volume 9 - 2001

Frederick Burwick Mimesis and its Romantic Reflections

Erich Auerbach Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

Ann Rigney Imperfect Histories: The Elusive Past and the Legacy of Romantic Historicism

Angela Esterhammer The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism

Michael Lowy and Robert Sayre Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

Aimee Boutin Maternal Echoes: The Poetry of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Alphonse de Lamartine

Beth Wright The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix

Daniel Albright Berlioz's Semi-Opermas

Benjamin Bennett Goethe as Woman

Gillen D'Arcy Wood The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culutre

Philip Shaw Romantic Wars : Studies in Culture and Conflict, 1793-1822

David P. Haney The Challenge of Coleridge

Shelia Spector Wonder's Divine: The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Myth

Adeline Johns-Putra Heroes and Housewives: Women's Epic Poetry and Domestic Ideology in The Romantic Age

Nanora Sweet and Julie Melnyk Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century

Barbara Seuss New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Bronte

Judith Thompson John Thelwall: The Peripatetic

Christine Kenyon-Jones Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing

Deborah Elise-White Romantic Returns: Superstition, Imagination, History

Fred Botting The Gothic

Kenneth Daley The Rescue of Romanticism: Walter Pater and John Ruskin

Betje Black Klier The Journey of Theodore Pavie to Louisiana and Texas, 1829-1830

 

Prism(s) Volume 10 - 2002

William A. Ulmer The Christian Wordsworth1798-1805

Sally Bushnell Re-Reading The Excursion: Narrative, Response, and the Wordsworthan Dramatic Voice

Bruce Haley Living Forms: Romantics and the Monumental Figure

Onno Oerlemans Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature

Debbie Lee Slavery and the Romantic Imagination

Katrina Bachinger Byronic Negotiations

Rajani Sudan Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 1720-1850

Klaus Benesch Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance

Frederick C. Beiser German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781-1801

Robert J. Richards The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe

Ian Balfour The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy

Emily A. Haddad Orientalist Poetics

Gerhart Hoffmeister Heine in der Romania

Erik Hornung The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West

International Conference on Romanticism Inventing the Individual: Romanticism and the Idea of Individualism

Simon During Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic

Rodney Farnsworth Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-Cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems of Romantic Culture

Marcus Boon The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs

Edwin Mellen Press Recent Perspectives on European Romanticism

Victoria Nelson The Secret Life of Puppies

Prism(s) Volume 11 - 2003

Paul Hamilton Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

Ellen Brinks Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism

Nicholas Saul Philosophy and German Literature, 1700-1990

Dennis F. Mahoney The Literature of German Romanticism

Manfred Frank The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism

Marc Redfield The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism

John Gordon Physiology and the Literary Imagination: Romantic to Modern

Adriana Craciun Fatal Women of Romanticism

Barbara Taylor Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

Mark Canuel Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790-1830

Jane Stabler Byron, Poetics and History

Beate Julia Perrey Schumann's Dichterliebe and Early Romantic Poetics: Fragmentation of Desire

Dorothea E. von Mucke The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale

Theo D'haen, Peter Liebregts, and Wim Tigges Configuring Romanticism

Tim Milnes Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose

Prism(s) Volume 12 - 2004

Theodore Ziolkowski Clio the Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany

Peter Fritzsche Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History

Maurice Samuel The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France

Eli Friedlander  J. J. Rousseau: An Afterlife of Words

Thomas M. Lekan Imagining the Nation in Nautre: Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885-1945

George S. Williamson The Longing for Myth in Germany

Diana Greene Reinventing Romantic Poetry: Russian Women Poets of the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Frederica Brunori Deigan Alessandro Manzoni's The Count of Carmagnola and Adelchis

Leigh Hunt The Rebellion of the Beasts: or The Ass is Dead! Long Live the Ass!

Julia M. Wright Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation

Kevin Fisher Converse in the Spirit: William Blake, Jacob Boehme, and the Creative Spirit

Harriet Kramer Linkin The collected Poems and Journals of Mary Tighe

Eric G. Wilson Coleridge's Melancholia: An Anatomy of Limbo

Kevin Binfield Writings of the Luddites

George Dekker The Fictions of Romantic Tourism: Radcliffe, Scott, and Mary Shelley

Noah Heringman Romantic Rocks: Aesthetic Geology

Nancy Yousef Isolated Cases: The Anxiety of Autonomy in Enlightenment Philosphy and Romantic Literature

Martin Wallen City of Health: Fields of Disease: Revolutions in the Poetry, Medicine, and Philosophy of Romanticism

Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon Opera: The Art of Dying

Lou Charnon-Deutsch The Spanish Gypsy: The History of a European Obsession

Marshall Brown The Gothic Text

Edward Young The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts (Digital engravings/watercolors by Blake; Windows, Macintosh
       Unix compatible; Oakland: Octavo Editions, 2004)

Prism(s) Volume 13 - 2005

Kari E. Lokke, Tracing Women's Romanticism: Gender, History, and Trasncendence

Thomas Pfau, Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790–1840

Ross Woodman, Sanity, Madness, Transformation: The Psyche in Romanticism

Kate Rigby, Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism

Denise Gigante, Gusto: Essential Writings in Nineteenth-Century Gastronomy

Christopher A. Strathman, Romantic Poetry and the Fragmentary Imperative

Victoria Tietze Larson, My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo, 1833–1882

Andrew Carrington Shelton, Ingres and His Critics

H. J. Jackson, Romantic Readers: The Evidence of Marginalia

Deirdre Coleman, Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery

Andrew M. Stauffer, Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism

Denise Gigante,  Taste: A Literary History

Paul Goring,  The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture

Gail Turley Houston, From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction

Marcia Werner, Pre-Raphaelite Painting and Nineteenth-Century Realism

Helen Regueiro Elam and Frances Ferguson, The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology and Reading

Cian Duffy, Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublimne

Sharon Ruston, Shelley and Vitality

Jane Stabler, Byron, Poetics, and History

Gerald Carruthers and Alan Rawes, English Romanticism and the Celtic World

Alistair Heys, From Gothic to Romance: Thomas Chattertno's Bristol

Prism(s) Volume 14 - 2005

Leon Chai, Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era

James O'Rourke, Sex, Lies, and Autobiography: The Ethics of Confession

Larry H. Peer and Diane Long Hoeveler, Romanticism: Comparative Discourses

Susan J. Wolfson, The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism

Christopher Rovee, Imagining the Gallery: The Social Body of British Romanticism

Ted Underwood, The Work of the Sun: Literature, Science, and Economy, 1760–1860

Simon White, John Goodridge, and Bridget Keegan, Robert Bloomfield: Lyric, Class, and the Romantic Canon

Debbie Lee, Romantic Liars: Obscure Women Who Became Imposters and Challenged an Empire

Jack Stillinger, Romantic Commplexity: Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth

Celia Applegate, Bach Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the St. Matthew Passion

Christopher R. Miller, The Invention of Evening: Perception and Time in Romantic Theory

Margaret Russett, Fictions and Fakes: Forging Romantic Authenticity, 1760–1845

Colin Jager, The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era

Daniel O'Quinn, Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1700–1800

Judith Pascoe, The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors

Oz Frankel, States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States

Matthew Wickman, The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's 'Romantik' Highlands and the Birth of Modern Witness

Rosemary Lloyd, The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire

Isaiah Berlin, Political Ideas in the Romantic Age