Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism (Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)

NERVOUS REACTIONS......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction by Joel Faflak and Julia M. Wright......Page 10
Part I: Nervous Containments: Recollection and Influence......Page 30
1. De Quincey Collects Himself by Joel Faflak......Page 32
2. Mrs. Julian T. Marshall’s Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Lisa Vargo......Page 56
3. Between Action and Inaction: The “Performance” of the Prima Donna in Eliot’s Closet Drama by Grace Kehler......Page 74
4. Nervous ReincarNations: Keats, Scenery, and Mind Cure in Canada during the Post-Confederation Period, with Particular Reference to Archibald Lampman and Related Cases by D. M. R. Bentley......Page 102
Part II: A Matter of Balance: Byronic Illness and Victorian Cure......Page 130
5. Early Romantic Theorists and The Fate of Transgressive Eloquence: John Stuart Mill’s Response to Byron by Timothy J. Wandling......Page 132
6. Dyspeptic Reactions: Thomas Carlyle and the Byronic Temper by Kristen Guest......Page 150
7. “Growing Pains”: Representing the Romantic in Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters by Julia M. Wright......Page 172
Part III: Hesitation and Inheritance: The Case of Sara Coleridge......Page 196
8. Snuffing Out an Article: Sara Coleridge and the Early Victorian Reception of Keats by Joanne Wilkes......Page 198
9. Her Father’s “Remains”: Sara Coleridge\'s Edition of Essays on His Own Times by Alan Vardy......Page 216
10. Opium Addictions and Meta-Physicians: Sara Coleridge\'s Editing of Biographia Literaria by Donelle Ruwe......Page 238
Bibliography......Page 262
List of Contributors......Page 284
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Z......Page 296