The Politics of Romanticism

Contents


PASCAL FISCHER AND CHRISTOPH HOUSWITSCHKA
Introduction: The Politics of Romanticism .................................................................... 1

ANTHONY JOHN HARDING
Romanticism and the Politics of Dissent:
From Religious Liberty to Romantic Radicalism ......................................................... 13

ROLF LESSENICH †
Millennial Hope Shattered: William Godwin'sTravels of St Leon
and Romantic Scepticism ............................................................................................. 23

KIRSTY J. HARRIS
Ill-Starr'd Wanderers: Exile, Refuge, and Charlotte Smith'sThe Emigrants................ 31

KATRIN RÖDER
Hospitality as a Precarious Ethico-Political Practice
in Charlotte Smith'sThe Young Philosopher............................................................... 41

NICHOLAS ROE
Placing Displacement: Wordsworth and Coleridge in the 1790s ................................. 55

JACOB LLOYD
"far in some sequester'd dell": The Politics of Retirement
in the Poetic Dialogue of John Thelwall and Samuel Taylor Coleridge ....................... 71

IAN DUNCAN
Don Giovanni Automaton ............................................................................................ 81

TILOTTAMA RAJAN
Godwin'sFleetwoodand the Persistence of Dissensus ................................................ 91

DENNIS WEIßENFELS Body Politic and National Body: Political Myth-Making and Romantic Nationalism inJohn Bull's Bible......................................................... 107

GAVIN SOURGEN
The Revolt of Islamand the Politics of Form ............................................................. 119

STEFANIE FRICKE
Barbary Captivity in the Romantic Age ..................................................................... 129

PETER J. KITSON
Romantic Nationalism, De Quincey and the Public Debate
about the First Opium War, 1839-42 ......................................................................... 141

MIROSŁAWA MODRZEWSKA AND GRAŻYNA B. TOMASZEWSKA
The Institution of Romanticism in Polish Culture: Trends and Politics ..................... 155

MIHAELA IRIMIA
Decebalus's Ancestral Voice Prophesying National Unity:
Romanian Romanticism and the Politics of Ethno-Genetic Identity .......................... 163

MATHELINDA NABUGODI
Allegorical Realism: Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin's Reading
of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Political Verse .................................................................. 171

FREDERICK BURWICK
Shelley'sOedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant:
George IV and the Adultery Trial of Queen Caroline ................................................ 185

ANGELA ESTERHAMMER
Political Economy and Narrative Performance in John Galt'sThe Entail.................. 193

JUDITH THOMPSON
'Affiance on Affiance Multiply': John Thelwall and the Hope of Future Time .......... 203