Selected studies in Romantic and American literature, history, and culture : inventions and interventions

Contents: Foreword: the critic as investigator, Peter Manning Introduction Part 1 Women and Men: 'If I can make it there': Oz's Emerald City and the new woman Christabel's 'wandering mother' and the discourse of the self: a Lacanian reading of repressed narration The ape and the aristocrat Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads: sentimentalism, straw men and misprision. Part 2 De Quincey's Violent Stages: Bang up! Theatricality and the 'diphrelatic art' in De Quincey's English Mail-Coach Thomas De Quincey's 'three-fingered Jack': the West Indian origins of the 'dark interpreter' The 'dark problem' of Greek tragedy: sublimated violence in De Quincey. Part 3 Gifts and Powers: A gift that complicates employ: poetry and poverty in 'resolution and independence' The literature of power and the imperial will: De Quincey's Opium-War essays Wordsworth between God and Mammon: the early 'spots of time' and the sublime as sacramental commodity. Part 4 Sites and Regions: Detection as method: reconstructing the past in Godwin and Freud Sacrificial sites, place-keeping, and 'pre-history' in Wordsworth's 'Michael' Race, region, rule: genre and the case of Charlie Chan. Part 5 All in Your Head: Pictures of the mind: iron and charcoal, 'ouzy' tides and 'vagrant dwellers' at Tintern, 1798 'Cortez a " or Balboa, or somebody like that': form, fact, and forgetting in Keats's 'Chapman's Homer' sonnet Bibliography Index.