The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 (First Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) - Wordsworth, William Review & Synopsis

Synopsis This volume is the first to present Wordsworth's great poem in all three of its forms. It reprints, on facing pages, the version of The Prelude that was completed in 1805, together with the much-revised work published after the poets death in 1850. In addition, the editors include the two-part version of the poem, composed in 1798-99. Each of these poems possesses distinctive qualities and values; to read them together provides an incomparable chance to observe a great poet composing and re-composing, throughout a long life, his major work. There are no fewer than seventeen manuscripts of The Prelude in the Wordsworth library at Grasmere. Working with these materials, the editors have prepared an accurate reading version of 1799 and have newly edited from manuscripts the texts of 1805 and 1850-thus freeing the latter poem from the unwarranted alterations made by Wordsworth's literary executors. The editors also provide a text of MS. JJ (Wordsworth's earliest drafts for parts of The Prelude) as well as transcriptions of other important passages in manuscript which Wordsworth failed to include in any fair copy of his poem. The texts are fully annotated, and the notes for all three versions of The Prelude are arranged so that each version may be read independently. The editors provide a concise history of the texts and describe the principles by which each has been transcribed from the manuscripts. There are many other aids for a thorough study of The Prelude and its background. A chronological table enables the reader to contextualize the biographical and historical allusions in the texts and footnotes. "References to The Prelude in Process" presents the relevant allusions to the poem, by Wordsworth and by members of his circle, from 1799 to 1850. Another section, "Early Reception," reprints significant comments on the published version of 1850 by readers and reviewers. Finally, there are seven critical essays by Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, Geoffrey H. Hartman, Richard J. Onorato, William Empson, Herbert Lindenberger, and W. B. Gallie. Review M. H. Abrams (1912-2015) was Class of 1916 Professor of English, Emeritus at Cornell University. He received the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Prize for The Mirror and the Lamp and the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize for Natural Supernaturalism. He is also the author of The Milk of Paradise, A Glossary of Literary Terms, The Correspondent Breeze, and Doing Things with Texts. He is the recipient of Guggenheim, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Postwar fellowships, the Award in Humanistic Studies from the Academy of Arts and Sciences (1984), the Distinguished Scholar Award by the Keats-Shelley Society (1987), and the Award for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1990). In 1999 The Mirror and the Lamp was ranked twenty-fifth among the Modern Library's "100 best nonfiction books written in English during the twentieth century." Stephen Gill is Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Lincoln College, Oxford. He holds an M.A. and a B. Phil. from Exeter College and a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh and has taught at Edinburgh and at Cornell. He has edited the volume on The Salisbury Plain Poems for the Cornell Wordsworth series. Jonathan Wordsworth was a Fellow of Saint Catherine's College, Oxford, and Faculty Lecturer in Romanticism in the English Faculty, Oxford University. He was also Chairman of the Trustees of Dove Cottage, Grasmere (the Wordsworth Archive). The author of The Music of Humanity and William Wordsworth, The Borders of Vision, and editor of Bicentenary Wordsworth Studies, he was at work on several other Wordsworth editions and studies. The Prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850 There are no fewer than seventeen manuscripts of The Prelude in theWordsworth library at Grasmere. Working with these materials, theeditors have prepared an accurate reading version of 1799 and havenewly edited from manuscripts the texts of 1805 and 1850—thus freeingthe latter poem from the unwarranted alterations made by Wordsworth'sliterary executors. The editors also provide a text of MS. JJ(Wordsworth's earliest drafts for parts of The Prelude) as well astranscriptions of other important passages in manuscript whichWordsworth failed to include in any fair copy of his poem. The textsare fully annotated, and the notes for all three versions of ThePrelude are arranged so that each version may be read independently.The editors provide a concise history of the texts and describe theprinciples by which each has been transcribed from the manuscripts. There are many other aids for a thorough study of The Prelude and itsbackground. A chronological table enables the reader to contextualizethe biographical and historical allusions in the texts and footnotes. "References to The Prelude in Process" presents the relevant allusions tothe poem, by Wordsworth and by members of his circle, from 1799 to1850. Another section, "Early Reception," reprints significant commentson the published version of 1850 by readers and reviewers. Finally, there are seven critical essays by Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H.Abrams, Geoffrey H. Hartman, Richard J. Onorato, William Empson,Herbert Lindenberger, and W. B. Gallie. The texts are fully annotated, and the notes for all three versions of The Prelude are arranged so that each version may be read independently." Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) The most accessible edition of Wordsworth’s poetry and prose, prepared to meet the needs of both students and scholars. This Norton Critical Edition presents a generous selection of William Wordworth’s poetry (including the thirteen-book Prelude of 1805) and prose works along with supporting materials for in-depth study. Together, the Norton Critical Editions of Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose and The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 are the essential texts for studying this author. Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose includes a large selection of texts chronologically arranged, thereby allowing readers to trace the author’s evolving interests and ideas. An insightful general introduction and textual introduction precede the texts, each of which is fully annotated. Illustrative materials include maps, manuscript pages, and title pages. “Criticism” collects thirty responses to Wordsworth’s poetry and prose spanning three centuries by British and American authors. Contributors include Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Felicia Hemans, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lucy Newlyn, Stephen Gill, Neil Fraistat, Mary Jacobus, Nicholas Roe, M. H. Abrams, Karen Swann, Michael O’Neill, and Geoffrey Hartman, among others. The volume also includes a Chronology, a Biographical Register, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems. This Norton Critical Edition presents a generous selection of William Wordworth’s poetry (including the thirteen-book Prelude of 1805) and prose works along with supporting materials for in-depth study." The Prelude First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader back to Wordsworth's formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergraduate in France at the time of the Revolution. Initially inspired by Coleridge's exhortation that Wordsworth write a work upon the French Revolution, The Prelude has ultimately become one of the finest examples of poetic autobiography ever written; a fascinating examination of the self that also presents a comprehensive view of the poet's own creative vision. First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work." The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets. Specially commissioned essays cover all the important aspects of this multi-faceted writer; the volume examines his poetic achievement with a chapter on poetic craft, other chapters focus on the origin of his poetry and on the challenges it presented and continues to present. The volume ensures that students will be grounded in the history of Wordsworth's career and his critical reception. A much more active editorial intervention in Wordsworth's own determinations for the presentation of his texts ... Norton Critical Edition of The Prelude 1799 , 1805 , 1850 , 1979 , textually edited by ( Jonathan ) Wordsworth and Gill ..." The Thirteen-book Prelude Two-volume set. W. J. B. Owen; the complete one, in the Norton Critical Edition , “ The Prelude ,” 1799 , 1805 , 1850 , edited by Jonathan Wordsworth , M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill.” Various articles and other commentaries cited in those editions and ..." The Beats and the Academy The Beats and the Academy marks the first sustained effort to train a scholarly eye on the dynamics of the relationship between Beat writers and the academic institutions in which they taught. Rather than assuming the relationship between Beat writers and institutions of higher education was only a hostile one, The Beats and the Academy begins with the premise that influence between the two flows in both directions. Beat writers' suspicion of established institutions was a significant aspect of their postwar countercultural allure. Their anti-establishment aesthetic and countercultural stance led Beat writers to be critical of postwar academic institutions that tended to dismiss them as a passing social phenomenon. Even today, Beat writing still meets resistance in an academy that questions the relevance of their writing and ideas. But this picture, like any generalization, is far too easy. The Beat relationship to the academy is one of negotiation, rather than negation. Many Beats strove for academic recognition, and quite a few received it. And despite hostility to their work both in the postwar era and today, Beat works have made it into syllabi, conference resentations, journal articles, and monographs. The Beats and the Academy deepens our understanding of this relationship by emphasizing how institutional friction between the Beats and institutions of higher education has shaped our understanding of Beat Generation literature and culture—and what this relationship between Beat writers and the academy might suggest about their legacy for future scholars. 11 The year 1805 corresponds to the first full version of The Prelude in thirteen books , whilst 1850 marks the ... also allude to the 1850 version in the Norton Critical Edition of 1979 , edited by Jonathan Wordsworth , M. H. Abrams ..." William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude The editor has included a full critical introduction as well as notes at the bottom of each page to help those who are reading the poems for the first time. Wordsworth did not himself publish any version of The Prelude , but he worked on the poem intermittently for more than forty ... Most recently it has appeared in the Norton Critical Edition of The Prelude , 1799 , 1805 , 1850 , ed ." A Mind For Ever Voyaging Wordsworth depicted Newton, as Roubiliac may well have done in his statue of him, as voyaging, in ecstasy, through God's sensorium. In the Prelude passage from which the title A Mind For Ever Voyaging is derived, and in various others portraying Newton and science, Wordsworth seems to have written for two audiences, the general public and a much smaller, private audience, while seeking to elevate the minds of both to God. Like Pope before him, Wordsworth achieved "What oft was wrought, but ne'er so well exprest." William Wordsworth , The Prelude : 1799 , 1805 , 1850 , ed . Jonathan Wordsworth , M. H. Abrams , and Stephen Gill ( The Norton Critical Edition ) ( New York : W. W. Norton , 1979 ) . William Wordsworth , The Fourteen - Book Prelude ..." Romantic Complexity A critical look at three fundamental Romantic poets from a leading scholar of British romanticism Helen Darbishire used in their five-volume Oxford English Texts edition , The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ... sections on "Composition and Texts" in the Norton Critical Edition , The Prelude , 1799 , 1805 , 1850 ( Wordsworth 1979b, ..." Heaven and Hell Over half of Americans believe in a literal heaven, in a literal hell. Most people who hold these beliefs are Christian and assume they are the age-old teachings of the Bible. Ehrman shows that eternal rewards and punishments are found nowhere in the Old Testament, and are not what Jesus or his disciples taught. He recounts the long history of the afterlife, ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh up to the writings of Augustine, focusing especially on the teachings of Jesus and his early followers. Ehrman shows that competing views were intimately connected with the social, cultural, and historical worlds out of which they emerged. -- adapted from jacket Ehrman shows that competing views were intimately connected with the social, cultural, and historical worlds out of which they emerged. -- adapted from jacket" Romantic Autopsy This book considers a moment at the turn of the nineteenth century, when literature and medicine seemed embattled in rivalry, to find the fields collaborating to develop interpretive analogies that saw literary texts as organic bodies and anatomical features as legible texts. The Prelude : 1799 , 1805 , 1850 . Edited by M. H. Abrams , Stephen Gill , and Jonathan Wordsworth . New York : Norton Critical Editions , 1979 . Wordsworth , William . “ Prospectus ” to The Recluse . In The Works of William Wordsworth ..." The Ethical Vision of George Eliot The Ethical Vision of George Eliot is one of the first monographs devoted entirely to the ethical thought of George Eliot, a profoundly significant, influential figure not only in nineteenth-century English and European literature, nineteenth-century women’s writing, the history of the novel, and Victorian intellectual culture, but also in the field of literary ethics. Ethics are a predominant theme in Eliot’s fictional and non-fictional writings. Her ethical insights and ideas are a defining element of her greatness as an artist and novelist. Through meticulous close readings of Eliot’s fiction, essays, and letters, The Ethical Vision of George Eliot presents an original, complex definition of her ethical vision as she developed it over the course of her career. It examines major novels like Adam Bede, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda; many of Eliot’s most significant essays; and devotes two entire chapters to Eliot’s final book Impressions of Theophrastus Such, an idiosyncratic collection of character sketches that Eliot scholars have heretofore generally overlooked or ignored. The Ethical Vision of George Eliot demonstrates that Eliot defined her ethical vision alternately in terms of revealing and strengthening a fundamental human communion that links us to other persons, however different and remote from ourselves; and in terms of recognizing and respecting the otherness of other persons, and of the universe more generally, from ourselves. Over the course of her career, Eliot increasingly transitions from the former towards the latter imperative, but she also considerably complicates her conception of otherness, and of what it means to be ethically responsible to it. The Common Reader: First Series. Ed. Andrew McNeillie. San Diego: Harcourt, 1984. 162–72. Wordsworth , William . The Prelude : 1799 , 1805 , 1850 . Eds. Jonathan Wordsworth , M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill. New York: Norton Critical Editions , ..." The Presence of God in the Works of William Wordsworth Approaching Wordsworth’ writings from perspectives which have not been considered in critical literature, this book offers a multiangled reflection on the technicalities of the poet’s religious discourse, including the methodology of The Prelude revision, or Wordsworth’s patent art of "pious postscripts." The book constitutes a self-contained whole and can be read independently. Simultaneously, it creates an unusual duet with The Absent God in The Works of William Wordsworth, whose six chapters follow this book’s eight chapters like a sestet which complements the octave—becoming, thus, a tribute to Wordsworth as one of the most prolific sonneteers in history. Both monographs build their theses on Wordsworth’s entire oeuvre and embrace the whole of his wide lifespan. Their completion in 2020 coincides with several round anniversaries: the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth, the 200th anniversary of The River Duddon, and the 170th anniversary of the publication of his autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude. 3 Wordsworth's own word in The Prelude ( 1850 XI.282–86), where he expresses “the wish / That some dramatic tale ... for the original phrasing and disappointment with the final version —dominates the most recent parallel edition , ..." The Transatlantic Eco-Romanticism of Gary Snyder Tracing connections between Gary Snyder and his Romantic and Transcendentalist predecessors - Wordsworth, Blake, Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau - this study explores the tension between urbanization and overindustrialization. The dialectical relationship between Snyder and his predecessors reminds readers that nature is never a simple concept. Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition . Ed. Malcolm Cowley. ... 1850 ). Ed. Jonathan Wordsworth , ———. The Prelude : The Four Texts (1798, 1799 , 1805 , M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill.New York: Norton, 1979. Norton Critical Editions . ———." Austen Years One of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2020 "A thoroughly authentic, smart and consoling account of one writer’s commitment to another." --The New York Times Book Review (editors' choice) "An absolutely fascinating book: I will never read Austen the same way again." —Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk An astonishingly nuanced reading of Jane Austen that yields a rare understanding of how to live "About seven years ago, not too long before our daughter was born, and a year before my father died, Jane Austen became my only author." In the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the death of her father, Rachel Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense of her new reality. For Cohen, simultaneously grief-stricken and buoyed by the birth of her daughter, reading Austen became her refuge and her ballast. She was able to reckon with difficult questions about mourning, memorializing, living in a household, paying attention to the world, reading, writing, and imagining through Austen’s novels. Austen Years is a deeply felt and sensitive examination of a writer’s relationship to reading, and to her own family, winding together memoir, criticism, and biographical and historical material about Austen herself. And like the sequence of Austen’s novels, the scope of Austen Years widens successively, with each chapter following one of Austen's novels. We begin with Cohen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she raises her small children and contemplates her father’s last letter, a moment paired with the grief of Sense and Sensibility and the social bonds of Pride and Prejudice. Later, moving with her family to Chicago, Cohen grapples with her growing children, teaching, and her father’s legacy, all refracted through the denser, more complex Mansfield Park and Emma. With unusual depth and fresh insight into Austen’s life and literature, and guided by Austen’s mournful and hopeful final novel, Persuasion, Rachel Cohen’s Austen Years is a rare memoir of mourning and transcendence, a love letter to a literary master, and a powerful consideration of the odd process that merges our interior experiences with the world at large. Austen , Jane . Emma. Edited by R. W. Chapman. With an introduction by Lionel Trilling. ... Pride and Prejudice . New York: Random House, Vintage Classics, 2007. ... New York: Signet Classic , New American Library Penguin, 1980. ______." William Wordsworth's The Prelude William Wordsworth's poem 'The Prelude' is a fascinating work, both as an autobiography and as a fragment of historical evidence from the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years. This volume gathers together 13 essays on 'The Prelude', and is useful as a companion for students and general readers of Wordsworth's greatest poem. in 1850 ."2I Prompted by MacGillivray, scholars proceeded to recover what is now generally known as The Two-Part Prelude . ... the Cornell Wordsworth series in 1977 and disseminated more widely in 1979 in a Norton Critical Edition .23 Like ..." A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation "A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation offers a fresh and reasoned approach to literary studies that at once preserves the central importance that interpretation plays in the humanities and embraces the exciting developments of the cognitive sciences. The Prelude : 1799 , 1805 , 1850 . Ed. Jonathan Wordsworth , M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill. Norton Critical Editions . 1st ed. New York: Norton, 1979. Wright, Robert. The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life." The Oxford Companion to English Literature Written by a team of more than 150 contributors working under the direction of Dinah Birch, and ranging in influence from Homer to the Mahabharata, this guide provides the reader with a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English literature. was the first 'Discworld' novel. ... Prelude , The, Or Growth of a Poet's Mind An autobiographical poem in blank verse by William * Wordsworth , addressed to S. T. ... The Norton critical edition of The Prelude , 1799 , 1805 , 1850 , ed." Yeats and Pessoa W. B. Yeats and Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) regarded style as a tool for metaphysical inquiry and, consequently, they adopted distinct poetic styles to convey different attitudes towards experience. Silva-McNeill's study examines how the poets' stylistic diversification was a means of rehearsing different existential and aesthetic stances. It identifies parallels between their styles from a comparative case studies approach. Their stylistic masks allowed them to maintain the subjectivity and authenticity associated with the lyrical genre, while simultaneously attaining greater objectivity and conveying multiple perspectives. The poets continuously transformed the fond and form of their verse, creating a protean lyrical voice that expressed their multilateral poetic temperament and reflected the depersonalisation and formal experimentalism of the modern lyric. William Wordsworth : The Prelude : 1799 , 1805 , 1850 : Authoritative Texts, Context and Reception, Recent Critical Essays, ... The first version of this poem appears in a letter to Armando Cortes-Rodrigues from 19 January 1915 (CI, ..." The Book of God "The Book of God manages to be at once ambitious, deliberate, and nuanced in its interconnecting conceptions of philosophy and literary criticism."—Orrin Wang, University of Maryland William Wordsworth , " The Prelude " : 1799 , 1805 , 1850 , ed . Jonathan Wordsworth , M. H. Abrams , and Stephen Gill ( New ... Unless otherwise noted , quotations from The Prelude will be from the 1805 version in this edition . 32." Romantik 5 The articles in this number of Romantik include new research on reverie and dream as the locus of metaphor in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; an enquiry into the Royal Swedish Society for the Publication of Manuscripts Relating to Scandinavian History and the role it played in the construction of national memory and heritage; a discussion of Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg's and John Martin's iconographies of the sublime in the intersection between art and popular visual spectacle; archival discoveries related to the publication of medieval romance in early nineteenth-century Britain; and a reassessment of The Prelude as a formation narrative, arguing that William Wordsworth displays a conflicted attitude to the growth and progress usually found in the Bildungsroman. The journal also contains reviews of new books on the romantic period published in the Nordic countries. 5 8 Quoted in The Prelude : 1799 , 1805 , 1850 , ed. Jonathan Wordsworth , H. M. Abrams, and Stephen Gill (New York: Norton , 1980), 560. ... See Max Herzberg, ' William Wordsworth and German Literature', PMLA 40, no. 2 ( 1925): 302–45, ..." Literature and Authenticity, 1780–1900 Individually and collectively, these essays establish a new direction for scholarship that examines the crucial activities of reading and writing about literature and how they relate to 'authenticity'. Though authenticity is a term deep in literary resonance and rich in philosophical complexity, its connotations relative to the study of literature have rarely been explored or exploited through detailed, critical examination of individual writers and their works. Here the notion of the authentic is recognised first and foremost as central to a range of literary and philosophical ways of thinking, particularly for nineteenth-century poets and novelists. Distinct from studies of literary fakes and forgeries, this collection focuses on authenticity as a central paradigm for approaching literature and its formation that bears on issues of authority, self-reliance, truth, originality, the valid and the real, and the genuine and inauthentic, whether applied to the self or others. Topics and authors include: the spiritual autobiographies of William Cowper and John Newton; Ruskin and travel writing; British Romantic women poets; William Wordsworth and P.B. Shelley; Robert Southey and Anna Seward; John Keats; Lord Byron; Elizabeth Gaskell; Henry David Thoreau; Henry Irving; and Joseph Conrad. The volume also includes a note on Professor Vincent Newey with a bibliography of his critical writings. William Wordsworth , The Prelude ( 1850 ), Book 12, l. 208; The Prelude 1799 , 1805 , 1850 , ed. Jonathan Wordsworth , M.H. Abrams and Stephen Gill (New York: Norton , 1979), p. 429. Though Ruskin owned the first two editions of the poem, ..." William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism . References to The Prelude are keyed to the Norton Critical Edition , and use the following abbreviations : 1799 ( the two - part version of 1798- 1799 ) . 1805 ( the version completed in thirteen books in May 1805 ) , 1850 ( the first ..." Victorian Poetry and Modern Life Faced with the chaos and banality of modern, everyday life, a number of Victorian poets sought innovative ways of writing about the unpoetic present in their verse. Their varied efforts are recognisably akin, not least in their development of mixed verse-forms that fused novel and epic to create something equal to the miscellaneousness of the age. (1998) The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore: A facsimile of the first editions of the first two books of the poem (London: ... Wordsworth , William (1979) The Prelude : 1799 , 1805 , 1850 , ed. by Jonathan Wordsworth , M. H. Abrams and ..." The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism offers a comprehensive guide to the literature and thought of the Romantic period, and an overview of the latest research on this topic. Written by a team of international experts, the Handbook analyses all aspects of the Romantic movement, pinpointing its different historical phases and analysing the intellectual and political currents which shaped them. It gives particular attention to devolutionary trends, exploring the English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish strands in 'British' Romanticism and assessing the impact of the constitutional changes that brought into being the 'United Kingdom' at a time of revolutionary turbulence and international conflict. It also gives extensive coverage to the publishing and reception history of Romantic writing, highlighting the role of readers, reviewers, publishers, and institutions in shaping Romantic literary culture and transmitting its ideas and values. Divided into ten sections, each containing four or five chapters, the Handbook covers key themes and concepts in Romantic studies as well as less chartered topics such as freedom of speech, literature and drugs, Romantic oratory, and literary uses of dialect. All the major male and female Romantic authors are included along with numerous lesser-known writers, the emphasis throughout being on the diversity of Romantic writing and the complexities and internal divisions of the culture that sustained it. The volume strikes a balance between familiarity and novelty to provide an accessible guide to current thinking and a conceptual reorganization of this fast-moving field. 9 William Wordsworth , The Prelude , 1799 , 1805 , 1850 : Authoritative Texts, Context and Reception, Recent Critical Essays, ed. Jonathan Wordsworth , M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill (New York: Norton , 1979). 10 'Preface' to Laon and Cythna ..." Isolated Cases The literature of the romantic period has consistently been seen as the source of modern concepts of the individual. Nancy Yousef maintains, however, that the dominant account of the self in romanticism is in need of profound revision. While individuals presented in central texts of the period are indeed often alone or separated from others, Yousef regards this isolation as a problem the texts attempt to illuminate, rather than a condition they construct as normative or desirable. As her argument moves from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, through both philosophical and literary writing, her book offers a new account of autonomy and of the complex romantic inheritance of enlightenment preoccupations with the origins of human association and the course of human development. In her richly interdisciplinary book, Nancy Yousef addresses the emergence of autonomy, demonstrating that the ideal was beset from its beginnings by profound concerns over the possibilities and grounds of human relations and interdependence. Isolated Cases draws attention to the strain of intersubjective anxieties and longings hidden within representations of the individual as self-sufficient and self-defining. Among the writers and thinkers Yousef treats at length are John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mary Shelley, and William Wordsworth. 7. William Wordsworth , The Prelude , 1799 , 1805 , 1850 , ed. Jonathan Wordsworth , M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill (New York: Norton , 1979), 2:229; citation drawn from the 1805 version of the poem. 8. Condillac, Treatise on Sensations, 158; ..." Romantic Ecocriticism Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological early environmental aspects in British and American Romanticism. First, the edition’s transnational approach is evident through transatlantic connections such as, but are not limited to, comparisons among the following writers: William Wordsworth, William Howitt, and Henry D. Thoreau; John Clare and Aldo Leopold; Charles Darwin and Ralph W. Emerson. Second, the transhistorical approach of RomanticEcocriticism is evident in connections among the following writers: William Wordsworth and Emily Bronte; Thomas Malthus and George Gordon Byron; James Hutton and Percy Shelley; Erasmus Darwin and Charlotte Smith; Gilbert White and Dorothy Wordsworth among others. Thus, Romantic Ecocriticism offers a dynamic collection of essays dedicated to links between scientists and literary figures interested in natural history. William Wordsworth , The Prelude 1799 , 1805 , 1850 , ed. Jonathan Wordsworth et al. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979), Book 1, 288–300. Unless otherwise stated, I am using the 1850 Prelude as it would have been the version read by ..." The Limits of Familiarity What did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron’s new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers—sometimes accurate, sometimes not—were tantalizingly at the ready in the Romantic era, when confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, and gossip columns offered readers exceptional access to well-known authors. But at what point did familiarity become overfamiliarity? Widely recognized as a social virtue, familiarity—a feeling of emotional closeness or comforting predictability—could also be dangerous, vulgar, or boring. In The Limits of Familiarity, Eckert persuasively argues that such concerns shaped literary production in the Romantic period. Bringing together reception studies, celebrity studies, and literary history to reveal how anxieties about familiarity shaped both Romanticism and conceptions of authorship, this book encourages us to reflect in our own fraught historical moment on the distinction between telling all and telling all too much. William Wordsworth , The Prelude : 1799 , 1805 , 1850 , ed. Jonathan Wordsworth , M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill (New York: Norton , 1979), 7.117–120. All quotations are from the 1805 version of the poem. 97. Hazlitt, “On Londoners and Country ..." The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 5, Romanticism The history of the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including structuralism and deconstruction. Speaking of the child in his depiction of the ' growth of a poet's mind ' , Wordsworth in The prelude formulates the programme : ' For feeling has to ... The prelude 1799 , 1805 , 1850 : authoritative texts , contexts and reception ." Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation An ingeniously innovative analysis of Jane Austen's work, a highly respected and engaging critical study. 4: HABIT AND HABITATION 1 William Wordsworth , The Prelude : 1799 , 1805 , 1850 , ed. Jonathan Wordsworth , MH Abrams and Stephen Gill (New York and London: WW Norton & Company, 1979), l. 424. 2 Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architectvre ..." Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period. Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties—“a stunned memory preserved in the negative spaces of the treaty records.” A noted scholar of the “textual conditions” of literature, McGann investigates canonical works from the colonial period, including the Arbella sermon and key writings of William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather’s Magnalia, Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated treaty folios and Autobiography, and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. These are highly practical, purpose-driven works—the record of Enlightenment dreams put to the severe test of dangerous conditions. McGann suggests that the treaty-makers never doubted the unsettled character of what they were prosecuting, and a similar conflicted ethos pervades these works. Like the treaty records, they deliberately test themselves against stringent measures of truth and accomplishment and show a distinctive consciousness of their limits and failures. McGann’s book is ultimately a reminder of the public importance of truth and memory—the vocational commitments of humanist scholars and educators. William Wordsworth , The Prelude , Book 3, 63–64; William Wordsworth : The Prelude , 1799 , 1805 , 1850 ... , ed. Jonathan Wordsworth , M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill (New York: W. W. Norton , 1979), 95. 18. “The American Scholar,” Ralph Waldo ..." The Prelude Books I and II by William Wordsworth The passages which were moved from the original 1799 version to later books of the extended poem are also well ... is the Norton Critical Edition : The Prelude : 1799 , 1805 , 1850 , edited by Jonathan Wordsworth , M. H. Abrams and ..." Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850 In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism. 1234 WORDSWORTH , WILLIAM in London until May, then toured North Wales with Jones. After short stays in Cambridge ... Second edition of Lyrical Ballads, in two volumes, with preface, published in 1800 (further editions 1802 and 1805 )."