14 research outputs found
Karen O’Brien. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. viii+310. $33.99 (paper).
Creating an “insinuating interest”: Mary Wollstonecraft's travel reviews and A Short Residence
Reviews: Transporting Chaucer, Shakespeare's Princes of Wales: English Identity and the Welsh Connection, Shakespeare and the English-Speaking Cinema, Forensic Shakespeare, Milton, Toleration, and Nationhood, the Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind, Imagining Women Readers, 1789–1820: Well-Regulated Minds, Emotional Lexicons: Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling 1700–2000, William Blake in the Desolate Market, Romantic Englishness: Local, National, and Global Selves, 1780–1850, Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science & Literature, Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle, Melodramatic Imperial Writing: From the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes, the Beginnings of University English: Extramural Study, 1885–1910, Black Resonances: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature, Modernism and Christianity, Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain, Disability in Science Fiction: Representations of Technology as Cure, Directions in the History of the Novel
“Dauntless Faith”: Contemplative Sublimity and Social Action in Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck's Aesthetics
Mind the gaps: a qualitative study of perceptions of healthcare professionals on challenges and proposed remedies for cervical cancer help-seeking in post conflict northern Uganda
Politics, Emotions, and Romantic Periodicals
Scholarly investigations of the politics of Romanticism and the role of emotion in Romanticism have been at the forefront of Romantic studies for some decades now, but these two fields of study have typically moved in different directions. Moreover, both fields have focused primarily on what we might loosely call ‘literary’ works (whether canonical or not). The current collection departs from this wide body of scholarship in that it addresses the multiple and varied links between politics and the emotions in the periodical press from the 1790s to the early 1830s. It approaches this complex topic through analyses of both the politics of emotion and the emotional registers of political discourse in the public sphere. Its value as a collection, as distinct from a monograph, lies in the variety of perspectives it brings to bear on the topic