Table of Contents

Romanticism in England / Marilyn Butler
Field, constellation, and aesthetic object / Thomas McFarland
The I altered / Stuart Curran
The romantic emergence : multiplication of alternatives and the problem of systematic entrapment / L.J. Swingle
William Blake
William Blake, illuminated books, and the concept of difference / Joseph Viscomi
Blake's "London" / Heather Glen
Desire gratified and ungratified : William Blake and sexuality / Alicia Ostriker
William Wordsworth
The politics of "Tintern Abbey" / Kenneth R. Johnston
The economy of lyric : The ruined cottage / Alan Liu
Figuring class, sex, and gender : what is the subject of Wordsworth's "Gipsies"? / David Simpson
Bounding lines : The prelude and critical revision / Jonathan Arac
"Splitting the race of man in twain" : prostitution, personification, and The prelude / Mary Jacobus
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The politics of "Frost at midnight" / Paul Magnuson
Literary gentlemen and lovely ladies : the debate on the character of Christabel / Karen Swann. Word and "languageless" meanings : limits of expression in The rime of the ancient mariner / Raimonda Modiano
Romantic lyric and the problem of belief / Gene W. Ruoff
Lord Byron
Shipwreck and skepticism : Don Juan canto II / Andrew M. Cooper
"Their she condition" : cross-dressing and the politics of gender in Don Juan / Susan J. Wolfson
Setting Byron straight : class, sexuality, and the poet / Jerome Christensen
The nameless broken dandy and the structure of authorship / Peter J. Manning
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley as Athanase / Donald H. Reiman
Shelley's Mont Blanc : what the mountain said / Frances Ferguson
Rhyme and the arbitrariness of language / William Keach
The broken mirror : the identity of the text in Shelley's Triumph of life / Tilottama Rajan
Shelley's "Defence of poetry" / Karl Kroeber
John Keats
Romance as wish-fulfillment : The eve of St. Agnes / Stuart M. Sperry
Keats and the canon / Marjorie Levinson
Poetics and the politics of reception : Keats's "La belle dame sans merci" / Theresa M. Kelley
Poem and ideology : a study of Keats's "To autumn" / Geoffrey H. Hartman
Keats and the historical method in literary criticism / Jerome McGann
History, existence, and "To autumn" / Paul H. Fry

About the Author

Karl Kroeber is Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and the author of Retelling/Rereading: The Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times (Rutgers University Press) and other books.
Gene W. Ruoff is the director of the Institute for the Humanities and a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Making of Major Lyrics, 1802-1804 (Rutgers University Press) and other books.