Project MUSE®: Studies in Romanticism - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Studies in Romanticism.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 49 (2010) through current issueLatest Articles: Studies in RomanticismTWOProject MUSE®Studies in Romanticism2330-118X0039-3762Latest articles in Studies in Romanticism. Feed provided by Project MUSE®A Bookman's Charles Lamb: Claude A. Prance's Elian Twentieth Century
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986795
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Claude a. prance (1906–2002) is best known in studies of charles and Mary Lamb for his 1983 Companion to Charles Lamb, a reference guide to Lamb and his world, designed for the general reader.1 From the 1930s to the 1990s, Prance was a member of the Charles Lamb Society and he contributed regularly to the Charles Lamb Society Bulletin. He was also a collector of books relating to Lamb and his circle, amassing a significant library, though not of rare material such as association copies, manuscripts, and letters, which by the twentieth century had long gone, mainly to America.2 Prance's collection, now in the National Library of Australia in Canberra, is valuable as a record of both one man's lifelong dedication to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/754/image/coversmallA Bookman's Charles Lamb: Claude A. Prance's Elian Twentieth Century2026-04-03text/htmlen-USA Bookman's Charles Lamb: Claude A. Prance's Elian Twentieth Century2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®1139742026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03"The True, Old-Fashioned, Foretelling, Flitting, Gliding Ghost": The Aesthetics of Ghost-Belief and Mary Shelley's Necromantic Practice of Mourning
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986796
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Am I indeed Mary Shelley? the Mary Shelley who gave you almond billêt doux during our Pisan regales? And who <almost forgot> erred into wildness, untamed as she was by any sorrow?—Mary Shelley is now but a ghost of that.In the spring of 1824, mary shelley was much possessed by ghosts. in the same month as she was composing this letter to Edward John Trelawny describing her own perceived spectral nature, a frequent self-framing in her diaries and correspondence since Percy Shelley's death two years prior, an essay of hers entitled "On Ghosts" was published in The London Magazine.1 A meditation on the nature of the spectral, Mary's essay is a curious admixture of aesthetic theory, personal preternatural experience
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/754/image/coversmall"The True, Old-Fashioned, Foretelling, Flitting, Gliding Ghost": The Aesthetics of Ghost-Belief and Mary Shelley's Necromantic Practice of Mourning2026-04-03text/htmlen-US"The True, Old-Fashioned, Foretelling, Flitting, Gliding Ghost": The Aesthetics of Ghost-Belief and Mary Shelley's Necromantic Practice of Mourning2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®926412026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03"A School Boy's Guide to Infidelity": Religion, Politics, and Poetry in Jacob Bryant's Trojan War
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986797
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In 1796 the venerable mythographer jacob bryant (1715–1804) got into trouble by declaring that Troy and the Trojan War were figments of Homer's Egyptian-inspired imagination. No stranger to controversy, but nevertheless by temperament, scholarship, and connection a thoroughly establishment figure, Bryant was accused of "bestial Jacobinism," "dangerous rage," and an irresponsible skepticism that variously trashed Homer's reputation and undermined Christianity and the classical roots of Western civilization. This article considers how it came about that a man whose career was devoted to answering "an urgent calling for Anglican scholars who wished to conserve Christian truth against the poisons of Enlightenment
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/754/image/coversmall"A School Boy's Guide to Infidelity": Religion, Politics, and Poetry in Jacob Bryant's Trojan War2026-04-03text/htmlen-US"A School Boy's Guide to Infidelity": Religion, Politics, and Poetry in Jacob Bryant's Trojan War2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®1108232026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03Romantic-Era Gothic: A Vital Field of Inquiry
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986798
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"Gen z have brought goth back," declared ed power in a february 2025 article for The Independent in which he assessed the "goth resurrection" in recent music, film, and TV series, including the 2024 remake of Nosferatu (dir. Robert Eggers), itself an adaptation of what is arguably the most famous Gothic novel of all, Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). Noting the influence of social media and the Covid pandemic in the resurgence of Gothic modes in popular culture, Power qualified his use of the term "resurrection," observing, "goth hasn't exactly returned from beyond the grave." Instead, he wrote, it has a "remarkable longevity" that has to do with its fundamental currency: "As a genre, it holds a mirror up to its time
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/754/image/coversmallRomantic-Era Gothic: A Vital Field of Inquiry2026-04-03text/htmlen-USRomantic-Era Gothic: A Vital Field of Inquiry2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®511762026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century by Mary Beth Harris (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986799
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In her new book A Genealogy of the Gentleman, Mary Beth Harris takes up the topic of the gentleman, giving him a much longer history than perhaps the reader of a modern "romantasy" (romance fantasy) might give him credit for: "this blind spot has overlooked the vital legacy of eighteenth-century women writers in the construction of normative masculinity, specifically that of the gentleman" (3). Harris argues that women authors past and present have been crucial arbiters of "hegemonic masculinity" and its desirability—a masculinity that is specifically "a production of narrative" (3). In other words, the gentleman, as we know him today, is created through the words of women authors who, while framing a man of their
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/754/image/coversmallA Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century by Mary Beth Harris (review)2026-04-03text/htmlen-USA Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century by Mary Beth Harris (review)2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®107712026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel: Injured Minds, Ruined Lives by Deborah Weiss (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986800
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Deborah Weiss's Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel: Injured Minds, Ruined Lives explores the link between male power and female mental illness in five early Romantic-era novels by women. While the most common depiction of female insanity in the period involved a pathetic woman who goes insane when her love relationship fails, a trope Weiss refers to as that of the "love-mad maid," the female authors Weiss studies—Mary Wollstonecraft, Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Maria Edgeworth, and Amelia Opie—challenge the patriarchal system that relies on the fiction of female frailty in this trope, argues Weiss. Several of these novels depict female protagonists who go insane because of the machinations of powerful men
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/754/image/coversmallWomen and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel: Injured Minds, Ruined Lives by Deborah Weiss (review)2026-04-03text/htmlen-USWomen and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel: Injured Minds, Ruined Lives by Deborah Weiss (review)2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®128862026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel by Lauren Gillingham (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986801
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Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel offers an ambitious reassessment of three popular nineteenth-century schools of novels: "silver-forks" of the 1820s and '30s; Newgates of the 1840s; and sensation fiction of the 1860s. Lauren Gillingham contends that the dawn of modern celebrity culture brought a new type of novel, intent on capturing the publicity and spectacle of an emergent mass-media culture. William Hazlitt's 1827 critique of contemporary fiction as myopic (a view he shared with other critics) is a touchstone for her analysis. For Hazlitt et al., Gillingham explains, fashionable fiction was "too embedded in historical detail to speak in other times, and too
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/754/image/coversmallFashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel by Lauren Gillingham (review)2026-04-03text/htmlen-USFashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel by Lauren Gillingham (review)2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®142762026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03Notes on Contributors
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986802
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Gillian Russell is professor emerita in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. She has written widely on the topics of theater, sociability, gender, war, and print culture of the Georgian period. Her most recent book is The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century: Print, Sociability and the Cultures of Collecting (Cambridge, 2020). She is currently working on a study of printed ephemera and radicalism between 1790 and 1820 and on an edition of Charles Lamb's Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, general editor Gregory Dart.Alex Thomas received his PhD from the Department of English at the University of Toronto in 2025. His research is concerned with literary representations of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/754/image/coversmallNotes on Contributors2026-04-03text/htmlen-USNotes on Contributors2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®63462026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03